Sentences with phrase «smartphone companies took»

The need of fast charger has always been around, but smartphone companies took the time to implement such technologies that will allow fast charging on their devices.

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You need to take your smartphone policy as seriously as any other policy; otherwise, employees will violate it and put your company at risk.

It took a move to India to find out that Hungama was trying to pitch his company's technology to high - end smartphone users, who plainly didn't have as much need for it.

TORONTO — Poor sales of BlackBerry (TSX: BB) smartphones have forced the company to take a massive writedown on the devices and slash 4,500 jobs across its operations.

In the aftermath, I was left with years of memories and a smartphone that couldn't provide enjoyable company across a dinner table, share in the joys of experiencing a concert or kiss me goodnight before bed — all these things I had previously taken for granted simply because I was too preoccupied looking for fulfillment from a screen.

To see which company is in better position to take over as the clear - cut No. 1 smartphone maker, we asked the next generation of smartphone users which they prefer: the Apple iPhone or Samsung Galaxy phones.

(The next year a startup called UberCab similarly took advantage of the smartphone's unique attributes to create what would become a global transportation company.)

The appearance came almost a week after Cook took the stage for Apple's latest special event, in San Francisco, where the company unveiled a host of new and updated products such as the iPad Pro and Apple TV as well as two new smartphones — the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus — that went on sale for pre-order over the weekend.

Thanks largely to the app revolution that took the smartphone world by storm, software developers (and to a larger extent, IT companies) are getting involved in a number of interesting ways.

People can take a picture using their smartphone or tablet, then send the picture to a 3 - D printing company and receive a 3 - D version of their face.

But to take advantage of the IoT, company - owned smart objects (sensors and commercial equipment) and employee - owned smart devices (smartphones and tablets) must be connected.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a startup Internet company has to pay broadcasters when it takes television programs from the airwaves and allows subscribers to watch them on smartphones and other portable devices.

Mobility has changed computing and Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs told CNBC's «Squawk on the Street» that the company continues to invest to take advantage of the proliferation of smartphones and mobile - enabled tablets.

Previously, the company only allowed Amazon Fire tablet or smartphone owners to take advantage of the feature, which has now been extended to all Android and iOS users.

Being a data - focused guy, Nixon of course calls for more research, but he also highlights ways companies are already fighting back against the toll smartphones take on productivity.

The company said rising competition in both the smartphone and feature phone markets is taking a toll on average selling prices and margins, prompting the company to scale back its previous guidance.

TI shares took a 6 % haircut last week when analyst firm Deutsche Bank called the company out as a supplier with exposure to an expected downturn in Apple's smartphone sales.

The company often invests in projects that could take years to come to fruition — it's currently benefiting from early investments of films for smartphones — but when those bets start paying off 3M's investors often reap the benefits.

As expected, customers took to Twitter to complain, and they almost universally sided with the smartphone company over the drugstores.

Just one hour after Apple began taking pre-orders for the iPhone 5 at 12:01 a.m. Friday, the company sold out of the first batch and informed later online buyers that the shipping date for the smartphone was being pushed back to Sept. 28 or later.

Companies looking to thrive in the online marketplace need to take into account how a product looks on a small smartphone screen or website as opposed to a supermarket shelf.

The state's ride - hailing law, which is set to take effect June 29, blocks Level 2 and 3 sex offenders from driving for the companies, which allow users to summon a driver with the push of a button on their smartphone.

As companies and marketers take advantage of the power and ubiquity of mobile devices, and it becomes easier for consumers to carry out financial transactions via smartphones, researchers suspect online attackers will attempt to gain their own foothold in the market.

My colleague was so nice to take photos of me (with his smartphone) in a design area of our company.

Smartphones have been the catalyst for explosive growth for China's internet companies and the same trend is taking off across Indonesia; eMarketer predicts smartphone usage will hit 92 million by 2019.

Furthermore, companies that are able to take advantage of rising smartphone adoption in the United States have been highly successful, with many operators offering services exclusively through mobile apps.

To help increase the appeal of its already stellar technologies, Land Rover is taking a new step by teaming with the Bullitt Group consumer electronics company to develop and launch a new line of smartphones.

The Docoss X1 is a smartphone that is announced today and company making it has already started to take booking for it via their website and a hotline number.

On the contrary, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins has stated the company is satisfied with the way consumers around the world have taken to the Z10 smartphone.

After the failure, the company was demoralized and at a crossroads, unsure of where to take the company going forward and how to compete with the iPhone and other smartphones in a landscape that was radically different from what the company knew.

While Chen doesn't state that there is already a company in mind to take on this task or that there is a device like the Bold 9900 already in the works, he does reportedly state that he thinks he should «find someone» to make such a smartphone which may suggest that Chen plans to seek out a licensing partner to build a new BlackBerry - style phone similar to the Bold.

While the company report described Impact Scores as «the difference between the rate of a behavior in one customer segment from the rate of a behavior in all website visitors multiplied by the number of visitors in the same segment,» what can be stated in simple terms is that the purchasing experience for smartphone and tablet users have to be improved as more take to these devices in future.

The Chinese company had started taking pre-order for the smartphone in India last week.

Prior to Huawei's CES scheduled press event on Monday, the Chinese company took a shot across the bow of high - end smartphones, reports the OLED - Info site.

Nokia is best known for its smartphones, but the company is taking a stab at the tablet market with its first Windows 8.1 RT slate, the 10.1 - inch Lumia 2520.

And the company announced that its new Fire smartphones had sold so poorly since hitting the market in July that it had to take a $ 170 million charge on unsold devices.

Word on the street has it that LeTV is looking for more investors in an effort to take aim at the mobile hardware marketplace (specifically smartphones, which the company is trying to rename as «superphones»).

After all, it only took us 3 weeks to port our Good e-Reader App Store from being a smartphone app, to being fully compatible with E-Ink and other e-reader companies are now bundling our store on THEIR Android devices.

After HP CEO Meg Whitman took over, she announced that the company would ultimately offer a smartphone to keep up with the fact that for many in the developing world, such a device is now their first and maybe only computer.

Micromax was the first company to take the cue, and since then we have seen smartphones from the likes of Celkon, Karbonn, Xolo, Lava and Spice.

The number isn't all about declining smartphone sales, though — it includes the $ 485 million hit the company took thanks to unsold PlayBooks, as well as a $ 54 million charge from the worldwide outage it suffered this fall.

Now, the Korean company has announced the W2016, a smartphone that takes the same premium materials and puts them inside a clamshell body.

RIM is hosting its annual gathering in Orlando, and this year's BlackBerry World is of particular importance: the company is taking the wraps off BlackBerry 10, the most fundamental reboot of its smartphone platform in many years.

The company has also clearly taken recent lessons to heart: smartphones live and die by the apps you can run on them, so the admittedly limited presence of Android apps is a boon for BlackBerry fans.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his lieutenants have signaled to colleagues and outsiders that the company wants to take greater control over its program for making «Nexus» smartphones, which are powered by Google's Android software.

True to Lenovo's invite, it seems that the company has taken the wraps off a couple of new smartphones at IFA 2014.

This means any Amazon - made smartphone would have to compete directly with other Android devices, and it's said that part of the reason why the company has taken so long to get its phone to market is because many manufacturers have signed agreements to only produce Android products approved by Google.

These phones come in the form of the Lenovo Vibe X2, which we have seen in leaked photos, and the Lenovo Vibe Z2 which Lenovo claims is not only a phone designed to take selfies, but will also be the company's first 64 - bit Android smartphone.

Samsung (005930) hasn't had as much luck with tablets as it's had with smartphones, but it looks like the company is taking another shot at the tablet market with a new seven - inch version >>

BlackBerry may have shied away from continuing their keyboard - studded smartphones but a China - based company TCL plans to take away the idea after acquiring its rights.