Jolla, the smartphone start-up established by "refugees" from Nokia, has demonstrated its first reference design, with new devices being released to the public by the end of the year. Although the company is focused on developing the ...
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Smartphone maker BlackBerry is to port its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) tool to Android and iOS. It will be available on all three platforms by the summer, claims the company, and crucially will be free. Further reading Analysis: ...
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Australia shoppers chasing bargains have a new tool - each other. Shopping aggregation site Lasoo has updated its app so that consumers can crowdsource the best price, location and availability by sharing barcode data scanned by their ...
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Recent rumors suggest that Amazon will launch a streaming media player this fall to compete with the likes of Apple TV and Roku. An interesting question is whether it will offer access to Netflix, the company's fierce rival in the streaming ...
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Apple announced its fiscal 2013 second quarter results yesterday, which saw a net profit of $9.5bn (£6.2bn), a fall from the $11.6bn (£7.5bn) net profit in the same quarter last year. But while profits have fallen for the ...
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Intel's upcoming "Bay Trail" Atom processor is aimed at the low-end market, and promises to deliver convertible PCs and notebooks with all-day battery life at budget prices, the company said on Wednesday. "We think this is going to ...
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BlackBerry plans to release a larger tablet and two phone-tablet combos, or phablets, over the next year, according to a leaked road map presentation slide. The three devices will run the BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system, which ...
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Apple has filed a patent that appears to describe wraparound screen technology for smartphones. According to a patent application filed in September 2011, but only revealed publicly this week, future Apple smartphones could include a ...
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Microsoft has registered its first strong gains in share in the smartphone operating system market following the launch of Windows Phone 8, with the UK and Italy registering some of the biggest increases in market share. According to ...
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SHOWING signs of fresh life, smartphone maker BlackBerry eked out a small profit in a transition quarter in the midst of its rollout of a make-or-break platform to challenge Apple and Android. The Waterloo, Ontario firm said profit in the ...
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BlackBerry's upcoming American launch of the Z10 smartphone on 26 March has received a blow, with reports suggesting one of its biggest customers, the US Department of Defense, is looking to replace staff BlackBerry phones with iPhones and ...
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BlackBerry began a fight to regain share in the key U.S. market on Friday with the debut of the first phone running its BlackBerry 10 operating system. The BlackBerry Z10 went on sale nationwide at stores of AT&T, the country's biggest ...
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If you were bummed when Netflix split its hybrid streaming/disc-by-mail service into two separate (and higher-priced) offerings, here's something you may like: Redbox Instant, which combines unlimited streaming with one-day disc rentals via ...
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Are we getting lazy - lazy enough to spur an entire industry dedicated to eliminating cables for transferring photos from cameras to our desktops? The work involved in plugging in a USB cable to a camera port, and the other end into a PC, ...
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Microsoft will upgrade on Wednesday its existing Office 365 cloud email and collaboration suites for businesses, as well as introduce new bundles, growing even more the list of Office 365 editions, which some analysts and users had already ...
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