Google has announced financial results for the most-recent financial quarter, which ended on 30th September 2011.
Revenue reached $9.72 billion (£6.14 billion), an increase of 33% year-on-year. The company also said that 40 million people had registered with the Google+ social networking service.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Samsung Electronics has announced the availability of the Galaxy WiFi multimedia device, with the 5-inch version available now and the 3.6-inch version due to arrive next month. Pricing is expected to start from £149.
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Sony Ericsson has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2011 and has committed to a smartphone-only future.
Sales were up 33% on the previous quarter to 1.586 billion Euro, although this is slightly less than Q3 2010. Income before taxes was 31 million Euro - half the Q3 2010 figure but a dramatic improvement from the previous quarter’s loss.
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A UK-wide study has found that one in six mobile phones is contaminated with faecal bacteria.
The most-likely reason, in case you hadn’t already guessed, is apparently due to people failing to wash their hands properly after going to the toilet.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Call me naive or call me cynical - in either case you won’t be the first - but I was a little surprised to see a strong manufacturer presence at Droidcon UK last week. I’d assumed that manufacturers might be inclined to pick a popular operating system and then just start making devices.
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