Just minutes shy of their investors’ call for Q2’12 Google announced it made $12.21 billion in the second quarter of this year (that’d be the three month period ending June 30th). Their new-found ownership of Motorola brought in $1.25 billion of that with their “hardware and other” category, $843 million of which came from their mobile devices division. That figure is a 35% improvement over the same quarter a year ago, and 50% quarter-over-quarter . . . → Read More: Google rakes in $12.21 billion for Q2’12
|
||||
|
You would think that Apple would be the company requesting permission to use quotes from the late Steve Jobs as a means to sway jurors in deciding the ultimate fate of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1, but it’s the other way around. Samsung was hoping Judge Lucy Koh would find certain infamous quotes from Jobs’ biography permissible in hearings regarding the claims that their own tablet infringes on design rights granted to Apple’s iPad. . . . → Read More: Samsung denied chance to use Jobs’ own words against him in Apple case vs. Galaxy Tab Verizon has just released a rundown of their earnings report for the second quarter of 2012, and things are looking pretty peachy for the wireless giant. Service revenues grew 7.3 percent to reach $15.8 billion, spurred along by the increasing use of smartphones on the network, which now account for 50 percent of all postpaid devices on Verizon. $6.9 billion, or 43.6 percent, of those revenues came from data sales. . . . → Read More: Verizon Wireless revenues continue to grow as smartphones reach 50 percent penetration Qualcomm’s gotten around to reporting its financial results for their fiscal year Q3 2012. They earned 6% less revenue this quarter compared to the one previous, but rose 28% year-over-year. Revenues reached $4.63 billion. . . . → Read More: Qualcomm earnings slightly slide quarter-over-quarter in fiscal Q3’12 report T-Mobile has launched a new angle for their advertising campaign featuring the always-lovely Carly. She rides through cities across the countries, passing by more than 35,000 towers which belong to T-Mobile . . . → Read More: Carly goes into the music business with new T-Mobile ad This is about as low as it can get for Apple in the courts of the world. . . . → Read More: UK judge orders Apple to publish notice saying Samsung didn’t copy the iPad on its site After working through a set of legal disputes with French publishers, Google has made France the fifth European country to gain access to their digital bookstore, following launches in Germany, Spain, Italy, and the UK. Books are available via Google Play, which houses a library numbering in the millions, with many titles available for free as part of the public domain. The store also hosts a wide selection of bestsellers and time-honored literature, with French titles and international offerings alike. . . . → Read More: France is latest European country to get Google Play Books Verizon, in its effort to maintain a hold as the nation’s largest 4G LTE network, will once again expand its high-speed data services in regions around the United States. A total of 55 markets will see LTE for the first time or see current coverage expanded. . . . → Read More: Verizon adding more LTE coverage this week, 33 new markets launch Thursday AT&T will soon offer a shared data package for customers wishing to pair multiple devices with a single data allowance of up to 20GB per month. Dubbed Mobile Share, the package offers subscribers the chance to add up to 10 devices to the same service plan, sharing unlimited talk and text with smartphone plans starting at $45 per month plus data options beginning at $40 for 1GB of access. For the largest data option of 20GB users can expect to pay $200 per month, but the per smartphone price drops to $30. . . . → Read More: AT&T announces shared data plans of their own starting in August Just because Motorola won Apple’s patent case against them in Germany doesn’t mean they’re out of the woods just yet. . . . → Read More: Motorola’s Import Ban Goes Into Effect Tomorrow – Remains Confident They Can Sidestep Microsoft’s Patent |
||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Androiiid - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & the Atahualpa Theme by BytesForAll. Discuss on our WP Forum |
||||
Popular Posts