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It looks like sales of the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone are not what the company formerly known as RIM had hoped for. According to the analyst research house Cannacord Genuity and Pacific Crest, which gathered data from stores and distributors, BlackBerry has sold only 300,000 Z10 devices. This figure should be slightly larger at the end of the company's fiscal year which ends in March, but not significantly so.

Scientists at the University of Oregon State University have found a way to use high-frequency sound to increase the density of magnetic storage. The technology, called Acoustic Assisted Magnetic Recording (AAMR), allows stretching of magnetic media, to allow storage of large amounts of data.

Qualcomm unveiled the RF360 family of RF modems for mobile devices. It is the first such solution on the market in which a single chip can offer support for all the world's 4G/LTE mobile networks. This should certainly facilitate the implementation of these features in devices for manufacturers of smartphones

Microsoft believes that every Android device manufacturer earns money by using their patents, and therefore seeks to enter into licensing agreements with each of them to avoid lawsuits. Also this way they can earn money from what is often naively believed to be "pure" Google product that is based on open source software and Linux.