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It goes without saying that HTC has been focusing on the top-tier phone market recently, with the release of the HTC One and HTC One mini, as well as the DROID DNA late last year. However, the company is wanting to focus more on releasing mid-tier devices, as the market in several countries has grown in that respect.

During the company’s Q2 earnings call, CEO Peter Chou said that HTC’s upcoming plans will “address some of our challenges of mid-tier product competitiveness.” Chou says that the company has suffered recently due to intense competition with flagship devices, but he thinks that focusing more on mid-tier products will get the company back on track.

Essentially, HTC is looking to diversify its lineup of products, and we’ve already seen evidence of that recently, with the unveiling of the Desire 500, which is the company’s newest low-tier smartphone that includes a 4.3-inch 800×480 display, with a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor clocked at 1.2GHz and 1GB of RAM on the inside.

Aside from focusing on more mid-tier devices in the future, the company also wants to focus on more partnerships, and Chou notes that he hopes this will help HTC make a big statement in the mobile market once 2014 rolls around. Chou is also hoping to finish out the year on a high note, following what the company is predicting to be a poor third quarter.

HTC is expecting Q3 revenue in the range of $1.7 billion to $2 billion, which would be down from the previous quarter’s revenue of $2.35 billion. This would as much as a 30% drop in revenue. However, the company says that Q4 will be much better, but didn’t mention financial outlooks that far ahead yet.

VIA: The Next Web

SOURCE: HTC

HTC mid-tier devices planned with poor third quarter expected is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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There are a lot of ways through which you can manage your files on SkyDrive. There are mobile apps and softwares for Windows and Mac. If you like managing files through your web browser, by going to www.skydrive.com, you’re in luck. In a new blog post today Microsoft has detailed several enhancements that it has made to the web interface of its cloud storage solution.

Files saved on SkyDrive can now be selectively shared from anywhere on the service, previously either entire folders or individual files from a specific folder could be shared. Different files can now be shared with different people. The Shared view will display all of the files you’ve shared, and will also display files that have been shared with you. High quality pictures can now be viewed in their full resolution, SkyDrive.com automatically determines the DPI or dots per inch of your device and shows higher quality pictures and thumbnails. Animated GIFs can now be viewed in full animation as opposed to viewing them as static images. Managing photos has been improved as well, photos can now be manually rotated and the view can be configured to display photos in a certain folder instead of displaying an entire batch of photos.

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Chinese companies such as Huawei have always been accused of helping the Chinese government in its spying operations. Countries such as the U.S. and U.K. take special measures to ensure that any Huawei equipment being installed is free from all vulnerabilities that can let China spy on them. A new report from the Australian Financial Review claims that top spy agencies like the MI6 and CIA have banned Lenovo machines from their networks over fears that they might contain “back-door” hardware that would aid China’s spying attempts.

Lenovo has said that it hasn’t been informed on any such restriction on sales, and that it would look in to this situation closely. Australia’s Department of Defence has confirmed that Lenovo machines haven’t been approved for top-secret networks. Back in 2006, the U.S. State Department said that over 16,000 Lenovo computers won’t be used on its classified systems so as to not compromise U.S. information and communication channels. Right now there’s no proof that Lenovo actually installs “back-door” hardware to aid China. Huawei recently told its criticizers to put up evidence of its links with the Chinese government or “shut up.”

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