Three million units sold so far and counting – that’s the measure of success attached with the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, which later on this month will be challenged by HTC’s Droid DNA and other phablets in the months and quarters ahead.
Australian retailers better be prepared with the influx of shoppers in the lead-up to the holiday season and its best that they configure their online stores to accommodate the expected traffic surge in Q4 2012, a new report said.
The city is on lockdown. Street vendors are closed. Taxi drivers have been ordered to seal their windows to prevent seditious material from being leafletted in the main square.
Expectations run high for the latest Call of Duty game franchise, the Black Ops 2, according to analysts, because previous releases of the Activision pedigree had delivered hundreds of millions in revenues within 24 hours of reaching global store shelves.
The Australian sharemarket started the day in mixed fashion; however is currently improving thanks in part to some solid economic numbers. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) is up 0.1 per cent or 5.1 pts to 4409.3. The energy, mining and industrial sectors are trading in the red while other sectors are higher. This is the first time in five sessions the local market is improving.
The stock market is not exactly a model of orderly progress, is it? The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) became the latest bourse to experience a 'glitch' yesterday. Volume was light on the NYSE because trading in 216 of its 3825 stocks was suspended. The exchange's matching engine wasn't functioning properly.
The director general, George Entwistle resigned from BBC within two months of commencing his job, after the broadcaster that is funded by the state had put out a programme that was marked by the chairman as nothing but shoddy journalism in BBC.
The rise in price of oil and improved stocks in the US on Friday was more than five years, owing to the sentiment of the consumers, exceeding concerns that the US fiscal cliff and the financial woes of Europe may result in global recession.
The Big Apple hosted the recent U.S. launch of the latest smartphone flavour from Taiwan-based HTC, the Droid DNA, which Verizon has picked up to become its latest Android mobile device.
For the Friday, Nov 16, release of the HTC One X+, AT&T started to take pre-orders for what is considered now the captain of the HTC football team. HTC is counting on the expansion of its HTC One series through the extra affordable unit, to boost its position in the global marketplace for smartphone.
Sony, once one of the leading electronic brands in the world, has slipped in comparison to other telecom companies such as Apple and Samsung in terms of sales and popularity of products. However, the Japan-based company could still count on the strong features of its products in a bid to reassert its place in the marketplace. For 2013, Sony targets to ship 50 million Xperia smartphones, relying mainly on Xperia T and TL, which were featured in Skyfall, the latest James Bond movie.
The United States is on track to overtake oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world’s top oil producing nation by 2017, according to the latest report by the International Energy Agency.
The South Australian (SA) government provided on Tuesday some relief to mining giant BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) by granting it a four-year extension to decide on the multibillion dollar Olympic Dam expansion project.
By Greg PeelThe Dow closed down 58 points or 0.5% while the S&P lost 0.4% to 1374 and the Nasdaq dropped 0.
The Australian sharemarket had its biggest fall since 23 July, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) slumping by 1.5 per cent or 65.7 pts to 4404.2. Shares ended in the red for the fourth straight session; making it the longest losing streak for our market in four months. Relatively disappointing economic news out this morning also did the market no favours.
What is there to gripe about the Google Nexus 4? It is powerful thanks to the quad-core Snapdragon processor that clocks at a peak speed of 1.4GHz and brandishes the native version of Android Jellybean.
Activision’s ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 2’ will hit global store shelves on Nov 13 and this early the highly-anticipated game title is projected to quickly breach the $1 billion mark, easily breaking the record sales set in 2011 by its immediate CoD predecessor.
Local stocks are trading in the red again today, following a lacklustre offshore lead and a new report showing business conditions are at their lowest levels since May 2009.
With the speculated roll out of HTC Droid DNA, 5-inch devices such as Samsung's Galaxy Note II face a challenge in the marketplace. All eyes are in New York City if HTC and Verizon will confirm leaks of the Droid DNA, reportedly bearing some similarity to the HTC J Butterfly model announced in Japan several weeks ago.
The Surface tablet has been moving modestly so far, Microsoft said on Monday, hastening to add that the overall push for the Windows RT version of the gadget has encountered minimal glitches.
- Business confidence worst since 2009- Confidence persistently weak- Mining losing the faith- GDP forecasts below trendBy Greg PeelNational Australia Bank's monthly business survey uses various measures to crunch an index-style reading for business "conditions" and "confidence" on a zero-neutr...
After more than two years of reign, a rival tablet appears to be gathering enough steam that tech experts seem convinced an iPad killer is now on the horizon.
After topping smartphone sales the past three quarters in effect taking away the smartphone crown from Apple, South Korean tech firm Samsung is now threatening to also dislodge the California-based company from its top spot in the tablet market.
Australian officials were recently crowing about becoming the global leader in solar power generation with the announced roll out of the $1.2-billion Western Downs facility.
By Greg PeelThe Dow closed unchanged, the S&P was flat at 1380 and the Nasdaq was flat.It was a quiet and low volume Veterans' Day on stock and commodity markets, as expected, with banks and bond markets closed last night.
One of the features of the last trading week was the weakness of the US market in the aftermath of the US Presidential election. The main thrust of the selloff was driven by the uncertainty created by the US fiscal position, a situation increasingly referred to as the US 'Fiscal Cliff'.This combination of expiring tax cuts and cuts to government spending will result in a fiscal contraction of around $600mln which could take up to 4% off US growth in 2013 if unresolved by year end.
For the first time ever, cherries picked from the Australian region of Tasmania will sail and be sold in the lucrative Chinese market based on the approval draft of the two countries.
Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc informed that its trading was on course as it announced that Alain Michaelis was to replace retiring chief operating officer Mike Terrett. The world's second-biggest producer of commercial aircraft engines expects to see good growth in its full-year profit.
Official data showed on the 9th of November that China's annual consumer inflation slowed to a 33-month low on food cost in the month of October thus giving the government scope to introduce new easing measures if needed. The policy of the China's government has succeeded in supporting the growth of the world's second-biggest economy.
Google’s design for the Nexus 10 is for the tablet to serve as a seminal device for Android developers, spurring them to author more apps that are specifically optimised for tablet owners.
