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ExclusiveLast week at The Fonecast: 29th April 2013

Mark Bridge writes:

This week there was only one set of financial results that attracted the mainstream tech media. Apple reported the first drop in quarterly profit for several years as figures fell by 18% to around £6.1 billion. On the positive side, it made around £6.1 billion profit. It also announced dates for its developer conference in June and promised a new version of iOS.

ExclusiveOfcom plans UK 'white space' trial for wireless M2M devices

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom is asking companies to take part in a trial of ‘white space’ wireless technology.

White space technology takes advantage of unused gaps in frequency bands, enabling wireless internet services and machine-to-machine connections to operate without interference.

ExclusiveQuarterly smartphone shipments have now overtaken feature phones, says IDC report

A new report from the International Data Corporation says more smartphones were shipped in Q1 2013 than feature phones, which is the first time smartphone shipments have dominated.

Overall, it reckons the worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-on-year in the first three months of this year. IDC says manufacturers shipped 418.6 million mobile phones in the quarter, of which 51.6% were smartphones.

ExclusiveZTE reports increase in quarterly profits

ZTE Corporation says its profits rose by 35.9% in the first quarter of this year, helped by the sale of some company assets.

Net income was up to 205 million yuan (£21 million), although quarterly sales were down 2.8% to 18.1 billion yuan (£1.9 million).

ExclusiveQuarterly profit up at Samsung

Samsung Electronics has announced quarterly figures for the period until 31st March, with revenue reaching 52.87 trillion won (around £30.8 billion).

That’s 6% down on the previous quarter but almost 17% up year-on-year.

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