a prepaidphone can get you a smartphone at a flip phone price. wal-martsmart talk is the faster prepaid plan. . >> what do i get for $45 a month. >> you get unlimited talk, as many minutes as you want, unlimited texts. >> everyone data is is unlimited though you may find dna dna throttle led or slowed down after you hit two gigs. >> the only catch, you have to buy your smartphone at full prize. but wal-mart's bob mal ri tells me there are cheaper android phones available. >> this is an 80 dollar phone basically. >> it seems everyone is pushing prepaid. cricket sals offers prepaid smartphones with unlimited data for around 50 dollars a month. even a-at&tand verizon is are jumping in. >> unlimited talk and unlimited text and five hundred megabytes which is great for that person just brouzing a little bit. >> with prepaid you either buy a card at the store or you pay on line. . >> this way, i can pay when i can afford to pay. >> best of f all, no contract and you can cancel or change plans any time. >> so if you know where to look, you can still get

-- televisions and smartphones. so you'll see a whole range of products at the booth where we're sewing pcs, audio systems, home appliances, televisions, the whole range. >> host: what is your position at samsung as executive vice president? for what are you responsible? >> guest: so i'm responsible for our corporate strategy in north america, covering the united states and canada, and then looking at all of our corporate strategies across -- [inaudible] so overseeing all the different product areas and how we put together strategies there, that's my responsibility. >> host: you spent quite a few years in korea, correct? >> guest: that's right. just over ten years. >> host: and why are you now in the states? >> guest: probably they got tired of me, said we need a breather. but it's very interesting when you've been in the headquarters for a few years, you've seen what it is to have global responsibility but looking at narrower product lines. but now in coming to the u.s., i can look at all the different product line

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we cover components all the way through to finished goods like home appliances, televisions and smartphones. so you will see a whole range of products at the booth where we are showing audio systems, home appliances, televisions, the whole range of electronic products. >> what is your position at samsung, for what are you response snble >> i'm responsible for our corporate strategy in north america america and looking at all of our corporate strategies across that. so overseeing all the product areas and strategies. >> you spent quite a few years in korea, correct? >> yes. why are you now in the snates >> probably they got tired of me and said i need a breather. but it's interesting when you've been in the headquarters. you've seen global responsibility but looking at narrower product lines. but in coming to the u.s., i can look at all the product lines in one geographic market. it's a different way of look k at the business. much more in the trenches than in the headquarters of the corporation. >> for samsung products s the u.s. and canada north america a growth market? >> it still is. tra

a smartphone in a consumer's hand and smartphone in a driver's hand and algorithm that helps route alls. when it hits scale, it hit scale in san francisco, pickup time is less than two minutes and changes behavior in the market. >> the time frame for taking those types of companyies publi is what, if not specific or exact, what's your train of thought? >> in the 1990s, it could be as low as three years and got extended to 10 or 11 as we went through the dry summer of the 2000s. i think today because of the way viral is playing on the internet you're seeing companies hit revenue growth rates much higher than we have in the past and i think we will see that window come in. >>> coming up. dan niles and you tweet it we trade it, and playing on a hand full of stocks you asked for on twitter coming up next. ♪ [ male announcer ] staples has always made getting office supplies easy. ♪ another laptop? don't ask. disappear! abracadabra! alakazam! [ male announcer ] and now we're making it easier to get everything for your small business. and for my greatest trick! enough! [ male announcer ] beca

with the smartphone.arket share that apple has, on the smartphone side, seeing other devices connect to the smartphone, almost like a central point of connection to the internet. i think it's a pretty big opportunity. there's also the fact that more and more people are using apps to monitor different parts of their life. sports, sickness, different activities. and i think apple and a lot of other device manufacturers -- >> but eric, wouldn't this be very different -- i mean, what you do is make devices that talk to a smartphone. if apple goes into this area, surely the device will be all the smartphone, the wristwatch. that's a different approach to the situation, isn't it? >> i think that's one way to look at it. but i think that there's a lot of technological limitations right now, on putting the computational power and battery life specifically in a watch form factor. and so with your smartphone being in your pocket, you can kind of leverage different battery technologies that allow for longer battery

that came largely from higher than targeted sales of smartphones and crystal television sets. the company set up a goal to start posting profits in the second half of this fiscal year that ended in march this is a condition for the firm to continue to receive support from its main banks. the managing director says the company will make speedy efforts to reform its structure and says the company will continue to sell its overseas plants and receive investment from taiwan electronics giant. >>> managers at sharp are also betting on one unique technology to bring business back. we explain. >> reporter: engineers at sharp looked into the future and the monitors, public computers and in smartphones too. the new liquid crystal display technology is called igzo. it reduces power consumption by a fifth. only sharp owns this technology, for now. >> translator: smartphone batteries that last longer are very appealing. >> reporter: in december, a market research firm ranked smartphones with a igzo panel as the number one seller in japan. >> translator: we're getting many inquiries of pro

that came largely from higher than targeted sales of smartphones and crystal television sets. the company set up a goal to start posting profits in the second half of this fiscal year that ended in march this is a condition for the firm to continue to receive support from its main banks. the managing director says the company will make speedy efforts to reform its structure and says the company will continue to sell its overseas plants and receive investment from taiwan electronics giant. >>> managers at sharp are also betting on one unique technology to bring business back. we explain. >> reporter: engineers at sharp looked into the future and the monitors, public computers and in smartphones too. the new liquid crystal display technology is called igzo. it reduces power consumption by a fifth. only sharp owns this technology, for now. >> translator: smartphone batteries that last longer are very appealing. >> reporter: in december, a market research firm ranked smartphones with a igzo panel as the number one seller in japan. >> translator: we're getting many inquiries of pro

level with hi-tech clothing, smartphone connected gloves and jackets hit the runway this week at new york fashion week. laurie segal talks to one designer who is blurring the lines between fashion and technology. >> here the an fashion week, you'll see the latest fashions but what you haven't seen is hi-tech fashion of the future. ♪ >> that's ashl levine, he's dressed lady ga. unlike most designers this fashion whiz is sending tech down the runway. >> this is the computer chip that we have invented in our premium jackets. >> his fall collection, a smartphone keked clothing line. >> how many of you have lost your gloves? >> the chip connects with tiebreaker app on your smartphone. >> we thought to embed it in the items that you may lose or left behind or those really important items. as you walk away, this is your proximity meter. it will flash green in your close and go into yellow and orange and then red and eventually beep if you've walked too far away. >> i've got my smartphone and i can find my gloves using my phone essentially. >> yes. and you could press a button on your gloves

and i can find my gloves using my smartphone essentially >> yes, and if you can't find your phone youress a button on your gloves and your phone will automatically ring for levine, this technology, a collaboration with a blue tooth focused company called phone halo, represents the next frontier of fashion. >> technology, i think, has fashion. socks, breathable material. system isn't what's next. >> it hasn't been done before, so what we do a lot partnerships with different technology firms where we kind of sit around the table and we go what are we going to do. that's what levine did last season in another feat combining tech and fashion: he teamed up with 3-d printing company makerbot, which allows you to print 3- d designs at home. the outcome? printable clothing. >> i thought why not be able to download a piece, or download something, so what we thought of would be like sunglasses next, levine's line also experiments with fabric. >> we incorporate innovation whether it's a partnership with a tech company or innovation of our own materials. >> like this is actually a this so if high

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two, the smartphone die mentions, the size of the screen on the smartphone is definitely migrated up.aw a smartphone today, the world's largest esst 6.1 inche. the iphone 5 is four inches today. i think the sweet spot goes to five, six inches over time. >> you mentioned apple. what's the scuttlebutt as to whether apple's lost its mojo, if people think it has, can it get it back? >> i think the word on the street with respect to apple, it's kind of lost its cool a little bit. i think the product is a little bit stale from a form factor perspective. obviously we see a lot of 4.8-inch screens, seeing five-inches screens. clearly there is a need and demand at the high end of the smartphone segment to be larger than four inches. we need a refresh around their summer worldwide developers conference. two, they need to spruce up their ads a little bit. i think samsung has taken the lead with respect to the coolness of advertising. i think apple's ads are, frankly, a little bit dated. i think we need to refresh that as well. at the end of the day apple is still the one that makes the most mone

and you see now the pentagon just ended a deal for a smartphone that can determine your fingerprints and face the scanning details ahead. it's thursday february fourteenth five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. will begin zeroing in on a massive piece of equipment that could transform the way the military conducts its missions drones have made their way into the mainstream conversation as senators demand more transparency and thus far secret drone campaign as of now we have a drone bases in places like pakistan in djibouti africa as a covert drone warfare becomes a critical foreign policy strategy we can expect even more of these bases to pop up but what if we didn't need to set up a base in these volatile countries well that could be the case of drone aircraft carriers were put to use while you are looking at right now the navy's x. forty seven b. drone aircraft which is in the testing phase the first take off that sees set to happen sometime this year so how can this change the u.s. military strategy discussed i was joined earlier by michael brooks pr

one trend is cheap smartphones.r folks who can't stomach paying $200 for a $600 phone and that long contract. here's one from no deyeah called the lum yeah 520 priced under $200 when you convert it from euros and that's the whole price not subsidized. that's the price of the phone. so it could be maybe a free phone with activation. if it comes here to the u.s. simple specs, less resolution but it does what it's supposed to do. that one runs windows but there will be an android well under $200 out the door. now, there's also a new operating system coming. you know about ios from apple and android of course. there's a new one from firefox which everyone knows is a browser but the same people of people who do the browser say we can run a phone. it looks like any other smartphone. you have the play games, icons, your standard functions and apps. but it's a whole 'nother camp if you will that might attract carriers who want to offer low cost phones because this will be a less expensive operating system to build into phon

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this is what their smartphone will look like. firebox will hit stores in brazil, mexico, poland, and spain. >> the next 2 billion people will mostly come on line from emerging markets and most of them do not have a smartphone today. that is where we are targeting the first devices and where we believe the growth will come from. >> barcelona's mobile fair shows it will remain a growth market in 2013. >> the battle to build the coolest and smart as device, the best operating system is tougher than ever. even market leaders like apple, samsung, an android are vulnerable. the market is changing fast and so are the company's shares. >> did you see last night's oscars? >> i did not. >> if you missed it, you missed a historic night. the british actor daniel day- lewis became the first person to win three oscars for best actor taking home the prize for his work in the movie "lincoln." >> he was not the only european cleaning up in the awards. first, the big result that everyone was waiting for, best film. the presenter this year was a bi

the lower end smartphone markets. so this is from samsung and the recommendation of the smartphone industry has, in fact, infected the initial segments they had when they launched initially, labelling some of the google android devices. >> it's funny, htc, i remember this story, kind of came out of nowhere to grab a big share of the global market when they partnered with android and it was an alternative to apple. now a lot of people have gotten into this space. what does this company define itself as? >> it was a good device to have. but then they launched the later reiterations. highways good among consumers. they need this device to be great. from what little we even, it's going to to be a great device. >> how much they have to discount the product? it's interesting to look at the timing, as well, right before mobile congress next week. why not announce this at the event? >> i think it's a marketing. i may be wrong, but if you look at apple and samsung, they launch their flagship devices. ebl they believe it will b

visa rolled out a service that allows samsung smartphone users to pay by smartphone, and mastercard has launched a new digital wallet called masterpass. the latest place to use wi-fi? you car. general motors is teaming up with at&t to install 4g connectivity in most of its vehicles by 2014. that would include chevrolet, gmc and cadillac cars and trucks. in a similar move, ford has found harmony with streaming music service spotify to bring its service to more than one million ford vehicles. it is spotify's first collaboration with a car company. the head of yahoo.com believes too many of the internet firm's employees work remotely, either from home or anywhere but the office. so ceo marissa mayer has ruled out telecommuting for yahoo employees. in a memo, mayer called it "critical" to the improvement of communication and collaboration for employees to work side-by- side. employment consultant john challenger sees the benefits. "when you have everybody coming to the office, they share ideas, and that sense of community is easier to create." challenger says yahoo's decision is ahead of th

. >> and wonder why your smartphone dies in the middle of angry birds? it's not only because you're bad at the game but those birds are pecking away at your battery. we're back in 60 seconds. new at 11:00, a horse is a horse of course of course but is it a main course. are they the other red meat. lawmakers in oklahoma want to pass a law that would a-allow horses to be slaughters for meat by foreign buyers. they say with such hard times, some people cannot afford to keep their animals. opponentssay that it's much more than a money issue here they're going to find any way possible to take care of their animal whether that means they reach out to rescue organizations or ask people to help. the issue is supply and demand. they're saying we have too many unwanted horses. that's not the fact. >> the bill has received support in the senate and is expected to pass and move on to the oklahoma state house. >> we want to know what you think about this. would you eat horse meat? have you eaten it? join the conversation on our facebook page. >> that cabin fire did n

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people when they get a smartphone tend to consume more data. they tend to have higher demand in terms of rate plans and revenue per customer goes up as people move into those. and that's just smartphones. you know, we're not even into the world of tablets. and so we are quickly approaching a place where tablet sales are going to exceed pc sales. >> when it comes to smartphones, you did have a record number of smartphones that were sold but the margins were pressured a little because you got subsidizes. i know t-mobile is getting to the point where they're going to not do as many subsidies as they have had in the pacht. >> the industry is constantly looking at this. in fact, we have looked and have numbers run and plans on the shelves to do something similar to what they've announced. really, when you say there's no subsidies, it's just changing the business model. they're financing the hand set, per se. it's a rethinking of what the business model looks like. >> when you pay it out over several quarters or something. >> which some would say tha

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close to 35% have at least five on their phones according to visiongain. >> everyone has a smartphone in their pocket and one of the primary uses of those devices is becoming games certainly. that said, i don't think that necessarily has a negative effect on peoples desire for the more immersive and high production value sort of big- screen cinematic experience of the types of games that we make. >> reporter: that high-impact experience relies on a video game console with big-time processing power. that's why there's a lot of interest in the next generation of consoles from sony and microsoft later this year. >> historically new hardware drives a lot of interest and brings about some new capabilities that we as software developers are able to exploit and so i think that its a great time to be in gaming. >> reporter: but whether it's toys or another installment of another popular franchise this fall, hirshberg says innovation is key to keep players coming back for more. ruben ramirez, "n.b.r.," new york. >> susie: a massive winter storm is headed to new york, and wall street. the natio

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. >>> you know you're probably already paying an arm and a leg for that smartphone. find out how much this will be in the next four years. >>> star wars fans, we'll explain what's being planned and when you'll see it in the theater. >> wyatt everhart, dundalk, ccbc. we'll talk about how things will change by friday. stick around for that. >>> looking at the market, it looks flat. the dow jones is up only seven and a quarter. the nasdaq down three and the s&p up almost 1%. >>> if you think you're playing more for that smartphone data plan, it will get worse. monthly bills will be about $40 higher in four years. you can thank 4g for that price increase. americans are expecting to be using eight times more data per month in four years when 4g becomes more of a norm. it may cost more but the report predicts connection speeds will be three times faster from now. >>> disney is expanding the galaxy far, far away after purchasing lucas films. disney announced the new star wars trilogy. they will be written around a specific character. they are tentatively scheduled to be rel

it could impact anyone with an employer-issued smartphone.hicago police sergeant claim it is city owes him overtime pay for all of the time he's spent answering e-mails outside work on his smartphone. he says he was pressured by his bosses to be available after hours, but he wasn't paid for that time. now as many as 200 other officers are expected to sign on to the suit, and it could cost the city of chicago millions. so should you be getting paid for answering your e-mails on your blackberry at home? with me now are arthur eye dahlia and employment expert katherine misnshu. thanks to both of you for joining us. arthur, this is something that applies to even. i think almost everybody has a smartphone now that they take home, their work gave them, you feel all kinds of pressure to be on call all of the time. what do you think? >> i think that that part of it stinks. i think it's ruined family life. i think there's a statistic that ruins marriages. the first thing people do when they wake up is check their blackberry. however, welcome to the un

it claims to be the first smartphone with two screens. it's set to go sale later this year. it all add up to a fast-changing landscape for the industry and the increasingly mobile world that we live in. from mckenzie world congress, barcelona. >> congress is underway. our coverage wrapping up. still to come, we have cable and wireless communications ceo explaining why smartphone sales are due to surge in emerging markets. also, private equity is back. at least that's a result of the biggest players. could the specter of over-easy money spoil the party? we'll be at the conference in berlin. from the global head of private sector at all-state. >>> and the second leg of gdp. more to come. >>> these are the headlines -- what's the price of political risk? italy hopes to raise 6.6 billion euros in its first long-time debt sale following the election as the formation of a coalition looks unlikely for now. >>> the u.s. sequester set to take place in less than two days. there's plenty of negative sentiment around the budget cuts, and lawmakers are letting them happen. >>> french equ

overall, i would say i'm not ready to say the high end smartphone market is dead. we've got to see how some of these new phone launches perform and one thing that people don't really talk about as it relates to qualcomm is the emerging markets. if you look at 3g adoption there, it's less than 15% so there's still a ton of run way for smartphones to grow overseas. >> joe? >> when you look overall at the technology space, a lot of the large cap technology players are looking to do acquisitions in 2013. what's the one semi name that stands out to you potentially as being additive to the large cap balance sheet? >> well, you know, this is just speculation but i sense that some of the consumer-based companies like intel and qualcomm want to get into infrastructure in a bigger way. in order to do that, they need a more powerful processor. one company that stands out to me is cabbian. you saw broadcom buy netcom a couple years ago. if i had to pick a name in semis, i would say it's that. >> let me ask you one more question about qualcomm. why hasn't the stock performed be

they'll have a larger tablet, a mid size tablet, and a smaller smartphone. the message being people are able to tote along several handbags. >> match your device to your handb handbag. >> or to your pocket. >> exactly. if i'm just wearing a suit with no briefcase, i'll take the one that goes in my pocket. if i've got a brief case, i can take the larger tablet. that's where we're at, isn't it? >> and one final point i'll mention, there now companies which are making little remote control device toes use for your bigger phone. so we have several iterations of products to key off the whatever that main base product is going to be. one thing, not seeing a lot of laptops around here. >> a remote control for my phone. >> why would i want to put an interface screen in? >> there are some saying if you want that interaction for your main device, you might need a smaller piece. think of it as a blue tooth, something smarter, more portable that you can use to make phone calls. believe me, the new vocabulary coming out is very telling. >>. >> i presume you wear your tab

. >>> competition among makers of smartphones and tablet computers are heating up worldwide. they unveiled their models at an international trade show in spain. the latest tablets and wristwatch gadgets are grabbing people's attention. samsung introduced a split screen feature that can display two different applications. users can check e-mails while viewing pictures or websites. japanese makers appeal to visitors with sony announcing it will go global with smartphones and tablets that are water resistant. these phones are popular among the elderly in japan. that the lest inusiness for this hour. here is another check on regional markets. >>> delegates will plemeet for first time in eight months. they entering the meeting with skepticism. they met beforehand with european union policy chief and iran's top nuclear negotiator. he hoped the talks would bear fruit once and for all. delegates are demanding that iranian scientists stop enriching uranium to 20%. beyond that point they can move toward uranium that's weapons grade. the u.s. and the eu have imposed sanctions to encoura

many as smartphones with hd screens.hone manufacturers are trying to make high- resolution screens a key feature in their new smartphones this year. full hd screens are more common in televisions but smartphone makers began to embrace them this year amid cutthroat competition. lg said its new android- powered phone features other upgrades including a camera that can shoot full hd videos and photographs. >> still ahead. thousands across the country come together to protest the extension of an oil pipeline. how those here in the bay area joined the nationwide movement. we'll be right back on the kron four morning news. >> thousands across the country are protesting against the extension of an oil pipeline. kron four's philippe djegal spoke with environmentalists. and, explains why they rallied in san francisco against the keystone x-l pipeline. this is expected to go from canada to the gulf of mexico. taking a 34 of oil. they will decide in the next 60-100 days. california officials are pushing hard for money to recover th

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