HTC and Microsoft, have introduced Windows Phone 8X and 8S smartphones that will be the signature devices for the software maker’s upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS. The Windows Phone 8X and 8S smartphones will have 4.3-inch screens and ...
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TomTom plans to launch a navigation app for Android smartphones in October, the company said Wednesday at the IFA trade show in Berlin. The app will put the Dutch company into direct competition for the first time with Google Navigation ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook has launched a new version of its app for Android smartphones that promises users speedier access to their messages, timeline and news. The app marks a rewrite of several major parts of the Facebook software to ...
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Mozilla said that income from search partners climbed 31% last year, hinting at the reportedly lucrative deal the open-source foundation struck with fierce browser rival Google. Royalties, almost all of which come from search services ...
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HTC, along with Microsoft, Wednesday introduced Windows Phone 8X and 8S smartphones that will be the signature devices for the software maker's upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS. The Windows Phone 8X smartphone in California Blue. The ...
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The iPhone’s share of global smartphone app downloads stood at 29 percent in the second quarter of 2012, significantly below the 47 percent attributed to Android smartphones. New market data from ABI Research suggests that the power ...
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Chinese search giant Baidu said it would invest more than US$1.6 billion to build a new cloud computing centre, as the company declared the mobile internet as a major focus of its next phase of growth. “In our next step, we must ...
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Intel kicked off its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco Tuesday showing off an Ultrabook with iPhone Siri-like functions, new gesture controls for PCs, and its newest Haswell Core processor aimed at the mobile PC market. Intel ...
Taiwanese smartphone company HTC has posted a third quarter profit drop of 79 per cent,as the gap between the company and market leaders Samsung and Apple grows ever wider. HTC has reported a net profit of NT$3.9bn(£83m)from July to ...
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Android's own malware scanner only detects a fraction of threats to the Google device operating system, according to the results of one researcher. A short report published by Xuxian Jiang, professor of computer science at North Carolina ...
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CBR talks to desktop GPU-cum-mobile 'system on a chip' maker NVidia about the major players in the mobile space, and what we can expect from the company in 2012. CBR talks to the maker of the Tegra 3 quad core system on a chip (SOC) ...
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Alfa Insurance, a US underwriter has teamed up with Kony Solutions, to launch the newest version of its Alfa2Go mobile application. According to the insurer, the new application will facilitate users in paying their bills, filing claims ...
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Google Play has seen business boom this year with a 311 per cent rise in revenue,but the Android app store still has a long way to go before catching up with Apple's iOS App Store. Those are the findings of a new report by app store ...
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Apple retained its stranglehold on mobile shopping over the two-day stretch of Thanksgiving and Black Friday in the U.S.,IBM said last weekend. More than three-fourths of all mobile traffic to online retailers during those two discount ...
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Apple iPhones and Android smartphones will replace BlackBerry as the top smartphones used by workers around the world in 2012,IDC said in an updated forecast. The IDC report on enterprise use of smartphones notes that businesses are ...
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