While Wednesday's release of Android 4.1 -- better known as Jelly Bean -- introduced a host of improvements to Google's mobile platform, a "fireside chat" that evening demonstrated that the developer community is far from completely ...
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Research in Motion (RIM) has pinned all its hopes on its upcoming mobile operating system (OS) BlackBerry 10 (BB10). Despite promises to launch by the end of the year, the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, told the world they would have to ...
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Microsoft is suing Motorola Mobility in Germany over a mapping patent that Microsoft alleges covers the Google Maps app that ships on Motorola phones. The two parties met each other in the regional court of Munich on Thursday, where ...
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In the battle for the hearts and minds of enterprise mobile developers, Apple's iOS has taken a commanding lead as businesses show concern over Android, according to a recent survey of mobile developers by Appcelerator and IDC. Does ...
Tags: Apple, app devs, Android, consumer devs, Microsoft
Tactile Player, made by Purelogic Apps, has made transitioning from old mp3 players to smart phones much easier for music listeners. One of the problems that touch screen music players have is that, in the case of Android phones, it's ...
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According to the L.A. Times, Walmart started Black Friday on Thanksgiving Thursday this year, with shoppers who lined up between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. promised at least three "good deals." The International Business Times reported that a Best ...
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Free smartphone apps pose huge threats to user privacy by collecting unnecessary information,says a report from Juniper Networks. The network security firm analysed 1.7 million applications on the Android market over an 18-month period ...
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Android-operated devices now represent three-quarters of the smartphone market, according to third quarter figures, far ahead of the iPhone in second place with 15 per cent. BlackBerry is a distant third, according to the research by ...
Tags: Smartphones, Android, group IDC
Infoworld-Google this week is extending an invitation to developers to try out its new Google Play Developer Console,which is centered on developing and publishing applications to the Google Play online store for Android applications. The ...
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Mobile malware has surged this year,with Android smartphones and tablets by far the most likely to be attacked.That's according to data released by security software provider McAfee in its second quarter threats report. The number of ...
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Cooper Lighting,an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry,has announced that the sixth edition of its Product Selection Guide(PSG)is now available.The ...
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Amit Rohatgi,principal architect for mobile at MIPS Technologies, considers the Android apps development landscape and offers a positive view of the significant progress that has been made towards unification. We often hear in the media ...
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Google has unveiled its first branded tablet – the Google Nexus 7. The device will run on the latest edition of the company's mobile operating system, Android 4.1 – codenamed Jelly Bean – measure just 7in and feature a ...
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