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Samsung Electronics Eyes Record Spending in 2012: Report

Students walk out of a showroom at the headquarters of Samsung Electronics in Seoul
Samsung Electronics plans to invest a record 38 trillion won ($33.9 billion) in facilities and R&D next year, a 27 percent jump from an estimated 30 trillion won this year, local media reported on Wednesday, citing Samsung and industry officials.

Is the iPhone 4S Screen Too Small?

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More and more smartphone makers are releasing new devices this month, and almost all of them have bigger screens than the iPhone 4S. It's holiday time, and that means retailers bring out their best wares in time for the shopping rush.
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Motorola Droid RAZR and Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Verizon 4G Devices Get Free Data in Temporary Promotion

If you are planning on buying the soon-to-be-released Droid Razr or Galaxy Nexus, then Verizon has just the promotion to get you to purchase a contract before the devices launch. For a limited time, Verizon is offering to double a capped data plan for 4G users.
The Nest

Nest Sold Out Until 2012

The Nest - the so-called 'iPod of thermostats' - barely touched down on the marketplace before selling out; the smart thermostat is so popular that you won't be able to get your hands on one until early 2012.
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HTC to push into emerging markets, eyes new tablet

HTC Corp said on Monday it will put equal investment weight on emerging markets next year as it does in developed ones like the U.S. and Europe, and will dip its toes back into the tablet market with a new model next year.
Samsung Focus Flash

Samsung With Windows Phone, No Android

Samsung's Focus Flash and Focus S are the company's latest smartphone offerings running on the Microsoft system instead of the Google Android system they have done so well with.
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DragonWave to buy Nokia Siemens microwave business

Canadian telecom network equipment maker DragonWave Inc (DWI.TO: Quote)(DRWI.O: Quote) will buy microwave technology business of Nokia Siemens Networks NOKI.UL in a deal potentially worth up to 110 million euros.
Smartphone shootout

EU Probes Samsung and Apple Over Patents

EU regulators are investigating whether Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc have breached EU antitrust laws with patent infringement claims in their global legal battle, the European Commission said on Friday.
Galaxy Nexus

iPhone 4S vs. Galaxy Nexus: How Do They Stack Up?

Apple, which unveiled iPhone 4S on Oct. 4, is getting flying off the shelves despite its battery draining problem for which the Cupertino, California-based company would be issuing a fix in the next few days.
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Galaxy S2 Skyrocket vs. HTC Vivid: How Do They Stack Up?

AT&T has recently released two 4G LTE smartphones HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket on its network. Both Vivid and Skyrocket will be available for $199.99 and $249.99, respectively under a two-year contract with AT&T from Nov 6 in stores and online.
Bharti Airtel

Bharti Airtel Net Down 38%, Falls More Than Expected

India's top mobile phone carrier Bharti Airtel on Friday reported a bigger-than-expected 38 percent fall in fiscal second-quarter profit, its seventh straight quarterly profit drop, hit by higher interest costs and foreign exchange losses.
Apple CEO Tim Cook

Siri Outage Affecting Many iPhone 4S Users

Apple's Siri technology from the record-selling iPhone 4S has been only intermittently available today for hundreds of people, and the twitter-verse predictably went a bit crazy. People began tweeting earlier today that the Siri voice recognition would launch, but it would not answer questions or perform its other functions
HTC Rezound

HTC Rezound Unveiled With Beats Audio

The HTC Rezound, formerly known as the Vigor, was unveiled today at the HTC event in New York. The Rezound is the newest addition to the smartphone family and will be a Verizon exclusive. The most anticipated aspect of the Rezound is that it is the first HTC smartphone in the U.S. to feature Beats Audio. The Rezound has Beats Audio built in, ships with a custom pair of Beats headphones and users have a special audio profile on the phone.
HTC Vivid

HTC Titan vs HTC Rezound and HTC Vivid: Which Should You Buy?

HTC, the Taiwan based smartphone maker, is set to debut three new devices in the next week, the HTC Titan, HTC Vivid and the HTC Rezound. All three have distinctive characteristics and are really meant for three different types of customers, not a bad strategy with the shopping season closing in

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