SALES of traditional desktop and mobile personal computers are expected to drop 7.6 per cent this year as consumers shift to tablets and other devices, a market tracker says. The report by research firm Gartner said all connected devices ...
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Samsung expects a rise in operating profit of 8.7 trillion won (£5.05bn) in the first quarter of 2013, a 53 per cent year-on-year increase. In the first quarter of 2012, the South Korean firm made an operating profit of 5.7tn ...
Google has announced that it will no longer be basing future releases of its Chrome browser on WebKit, the open-source rendering engine that it shares with Apple's Safari. Instead it will be releasing a fork of WebKit dubbed Blink, which ...
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M-Edge announced today a line of accessories for the HTC First – the first smartphone optimized for Facebook. M-Edge's cases will be available soon at medgestore.com and wireless retailers nationwide. The initial case available for ...
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ubAlert LLC today announced the addition of the Android app on Google Play to its growing social network. The global emergency warning platform, which alerts users of the location and severity of real-time disasters, is already available ...
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Discretix, Inc. and VisualOn, Inc. today announced the release of SecurePlayer? 2.0 at the NAB Show. SecurePlayer 2.0 is a media player for smartphones and tablets offering DRM security and high-quality video and audio playback for ...
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Almost 2.4 billion computers, tablets and cell phones will ship this year, according to estimates from Gartner. That's a jump of 9% on 2012, and the industry has plenty more growth ahead. By 2017, Gartner expects just under 3 billion of ...
The average person in the U.S. spends 2 hours and 38 minutes a day on smartphones and tablets. How are they spending that time? Are they doing productive things or having fun? Bet on fun. Flurry, an app measurement and advertising ...
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Google has launched its Microsoft Office substitute, Quickoffice, for the iPhone, Android smartphones and Android tablets, fulfilling a promise made in December. The release on Tuesday follows the launch of Quickoffice for Apple's iPad ...
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It's no secret that Samsung is up against Apple in many ways, in products, sales and innovation. However, even in the face of Apple's patent infringement lawsuits, Samsung is still climbing the charts. The electronics giant sold ...
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Google launched its Microsoft Office substitute, Quickoffice, for Apple's iPhone, Android smartphones and Android tablets, fulfilling a promise made in December. The release on Tuesday follows the launch of Quickoffice for Apple's iPad ...
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The second-generation Nexus 7 tablet, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, will be launched around July, according to two unnamed sources in a Reuters report. The Android device will be made by Asustek, and Google hopes to ship 8 ...
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Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team. Along with the privacy change, Mozilla also revamped Firefox's download ...
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There could be big changes coming to the fiddly and sometimes annoying Web browsing experience on cellphones. In apparently uncoordinated announcements on Wednesday, the Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the Firefox Web browser, ...
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It's amazing what you can find out from an auto show. This year, in the course of covering the New York International Auto Show, we came across some exciting electronics news: Readers no longer need commit to a book format the whole time ...
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