Podcast - 4th June 2014
Iain, James and Mark begin this week's podcast with Apple's recent iOS 8 revelation and its plan to acquire Beats Electronics.
They then move on to discuss Samsung's Tizen-powered smartphone, a new flagship device from LG and the latest Microsoft Surface tablet - as well as a network takeover in Ireland, BlackBerry’s M2M moves and UK price changes for Vodafone.
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Almost three years after Tizen was announced as a successor to the MeeGo platform, Samsung has announced its first commercially available Tizen-powered smartphone.
The Samsung Z runs Tizen v2.2.1 on a 2.3GHz quad-core processor.
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After three years at the top of the Millward Brown BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Brands chart, Apple has lost the number 1 position to Google.
Apple slipped to second place in 2014, whilst IBM remained in third.
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Terminal 5 of London Heathrow airport is being rebranded by Samsung for the next two weeks.
From today, Samsung has arranged to brand the terminal as ‘Terminal Samsung Galaxy S5’.
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New estimates from ABI Research show that 41.3 million branded tablets were shipped worldwide in the first calendar quarter of 2014.
Apple and Samsung accounted for 71% of the total, putting them well ahead of their competitors.
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