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HTC VP of Global Communications leaves post, Chief Product Officer said to follow suit
Author: Mark Jeffries
HTC seems to be encountering a bit of executive brain drain. Jason Gordon, the firm’s vice president of global communications, revealed on Twitter that he ended his nearly seven-year-long stint with the handset maker last Friday, but didn’t divulge why he left or what his future plans include. Now, The Verge is reporting that Chief Product Officer Kouji Kodera has also flown the coop, following a handful of other execs. According to the outlet’s sources, Chief Marketing Officer Ben Ho could be partly responsible for the changes since he’s said to be moving the outfit’s planning and strategy back to its Taipei HQ. With Peter Chou pinning poor marketing as what held the company back in 2012, it’s certainly possible things are being reeled back to home base — not unlike Nokia’s own centralization in recent years. We’ve reached out to HTC to confirm Kodera’s exit and just what the departures mean for the organization as a whole.
Via: The Verge
Source: Jason Gordon (Twitter)
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reach milestone high as global warming worsens
Author: Jamie Colby
Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the primary gases involved in global warming, reached a new, cautionary milestone yesterday. The oldest continuous CO2 measuring station in the world, an observatory on the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, reported that levels of the greenhouse gas have reached 400 parts per million (ppm) — an amount not seen in at least three to five million years, by the observatory’s estimate. Levels of CO2 traditionally fluctuated between 200 and 300 ppm between warm periods and ice ages on the earth, but since the industrial revolution, concentrations of the gas have been slowly — and now, rapidly — rising.
When measurements began in Mauna Loa in 1958, CO2 levels were as low as 317 ppm. Though…
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reach milestone high as global warming worsens
Author: Brandon Zimmerman
Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the primary gases involved in global warming, reached a new, cautionary milestone yesterday. The oldest continuous CO2 measuring station in the world, an observatory on the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, reported that levels of the greenhouse gas have reached 400 parts per million (ppm) — an amount not seen in at least three to five million years, by the observatory’s estimate. Levels of CO2 traditionally fluctuated between 200 and 300 ppm between warm periods and ice ages on the earth, but since the industrial revolution, concentrations of the gas have been slowly — and now, rapidly — rising.
When measurements began in Mauna Loa in 1958, CO2 levels were as low as 317 ppm. Though…
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Daily English News – UN calls for global moratorium on ‘Killer robots’
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Rain will get more extreme thanks to global warming, says NASA study
Author: Stefanie Jenkins
The forecast for the future of rainfall on Earth is in: over the next hundred years, areas that receive lots of precipitation right now are only going to get wetter, and dry areas will go for longer periods without seeing a drop, according to a new NASA-led study on global warming. “We looked at rainfall of different types,” said William Lau, NASA’s deputy director of atmospheric studies and the lead author of the study, in a phone interview with The Verge. “The extreme heavy rain end the prolonged drought side both increase drastically and are also connected physically.”
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LG Optimus F5 mid-range LTE smartphone hits France April 29, global dispersion to follow
Author: James Cliff
LG’s F-series handsets may not be in the same class an HTC One or GS4, but we can’t help to appreciate the solid specs and LTE-goodness baked into these mid-range devices. Following a debut alongside its F7 sibling at MWC, the F5 will begin trickling out to retail April 29th in France. While there’s no mention of US availability — despite a recent leak pegging it for Verizon — LG will also be soon be pushing it out to parts of Asia and Central / South America as well. Aimed at markets new to LTE, the smartphone packs a beefy 2,150mAh battery, five-megapixel camera, 1.2GHz Dual-Core processor and a 4.3-inch screen to display LG’s skinned version of Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2. If you’re curious to give LTE a go with LG, you’ll find the full press release after the break.
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No Comments »As Smartphones Reach A Global Tipping Point, Leader Samsung Shipped 71M Devices In Q1, Nearly 2X As Many As Apple
Author: Tiffany Shoman
IDC is the first of the big analyst companies to come out with quarterly mobile device shipment numbers that indicate Q1 as the first quarter where smartphones have outnumbered more basic feature phones in worldwide shipments: in a total market of 418.6 million devices, 216.2 (51.6%) were smartphones. But it is was a kind of tipping point of another sort, too: it is a sign of how Apple is not the juggernaut that it once was.
(BTW… for those of you keeping track, this is not the first quarter where Android has all but dominated the top-five rankings, save Apple’s presence. That happened in Q4 2012, according to IDC’s figures.)
Samsung shipped nearly 71 million smartphones in the quarter, giving it a market share of almost one-third of the whole of the smartphone sector (32.7%). Apple, meanwhile, shipped 37 million devices — just over half as many as Samsung, for a market share of 17.3%. With all others in the top-five — LG, Huawei and ZTE — still with less than 5% market share apiece, Samsung and Apple remain a strong top-two.
But looking at the pattern of growth something else comes out: Apple only grew its volumes by 6.6% over the same quarter a year ago. In fact, in that regard, that growth puts it far behind not only Samsung (at 60.7% volume growth), but also behind LG (110.2% growth); Huawei (94.1%); and ZTE (49.2%). As a point of comparison, Samsung and Apple were more nearly level a year ago, in Q1 2012, (44 million versus 35.1 million in Q1 2012), and respectively saw growth of 267% and 89% in shipment volumes — the only two that increased:
Today:
A year ago:
As we’ve pointed out before, shipments to those who sell devices are not the same thing as sales to users, but it is an important barometer for where the wider market is going. (The most recent figures from Kantar Worldpanel, which track sales, spell out how the difference between Android-based and Apple sales is not as wide as 2:1 in every market, but is in fact significantly wider in some.)
It’s notable that Nokia, BlackBerry, and HTC whose shipments were on the decline last year but still enough to keep them in the top-five, are now out of the picture altogether. It also shows that Nokia’s sub-10 million sales of smartphones, with 5.6 million Lumias, are not big enough figures to break out of the sizeable ‘others’ category.
With Apple still shipping more than three times as many devices as its next-closest competitor, LG, even if things continue as they are today, it will likely still be some time before it gets overtaken by the others in the list. Its performance also was enough to keep it in place as the world’s third-largest mobile handset maker overall, in a list otherwise dominated by companies that make both smartphones and feature phones:
IDC notes that LG, which shipped 10.3 million smartphones in the quarter, a rise of over 110% over the year before, was helped by three factors in the last quarter. The first of these was the popularity of the Nexus 4 device it created with Google; the second was the success of its lower-priced L Series (15 million sold in this category alone since launched); and the third was its LTE line. These three point to how those Android handset makers that can create strong enough and distinctive handsets that are set apart from the rest of the Android crowd can continue to pull away from the crowd.
Apple’s iPhone brand has never been seen as anything other than premium, and true to type, it is still not playing at the same level as others smartphone industry in creating new models that aim at the “cheap smartphone” market.
CEO Tim Cook did not discuss the prospect of a new, low-cost device, on Apple’s earnings call this week — the focus remains on selling older models, namely the iPhone 4, in markets like China as a route to bringing new smartphone users on to the platform. Other handset makers like Samsung, Nokia and many “others” are building out portfolios that hit not only at high-end users but those looking for entry devices priced at closer to $ 100 or even less. Some handset makers, specifically in emerging markets, are targeting only this market.
On the other hand Cook also left open the possibility that whatever comes next may be something different altogether: the “really great stuff” coming out in the autumn and in 2014 could be another iPhone. Equally, it could be something else altogether, and not a handset at all.
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Bharat Book Presents: OLED General Lighting Global Market Forecast (2013)
Author: Charity Woods
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The Engadget Interview: HTC President of Global Sales Jason MacKenzie
Author: Angela Stephens
Shortly after Facebook’s huge expose this early morning, we caught up with HTC Head of state of Global Sales Jason McKenzie and invested a few minutes with him discussing the First. As anticipated, he was pretty delighted about this cooperation in between his business, Facebook and AT&T. Jason revealed to us that HTC’s technique includes eventually catering the First to hardcore (or a minimum of frequent) users of the social network, whereas a gadget like the One will be more appealing to those who aren’t thinking about remaining continuously connected. Interestingly, HTC seems to have put Facebook in the driver’s seat right here, as the First will not just come pre-loaded with Facebook Home (and its firmware optimizations), however no indication of Sense anywhere. It’s definitely a departure from HTC’s usual branding efforts, so it’ll be fascinating to see exactly how well the device offers on AT&T. We have our full meeting with Jason below, so take a couple of mins to get the First scoop.
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