Tablet ownership as of May 2013 is closing in on a majority of Americans who are online, eight to 64, across the United States, with 44 percent of the population owning a tablet in their household - up from 30 percent in 2012 - a 47 ...
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New Windows PCs have always been the main attraction at Computex, the annual trade show in Taipei. But notable on the show floor this year is the growing presence of Google's Android OS, which is creeping into more and more tablets, ...
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Android smartphones and tablets are under attack, and the most popular tools developed to protect them are easily circumvented, according to new research from Northwestern University and the University of North Carolina. The researchers ...
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New research from Experian Marketing Services shows that iPhone owners spend 53.06 percent more time on their phones than Android users do. Does this suggest that iPhones are more useful than Android smartphones? The average iPhone ...
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While Google Glass is currently being viewed as a consumer technology, IT shops and mobile workers are likely already champing at the bit to be able to use a hands-free technology to do their jobs. "The same way that tablets followed ...
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Google has reportedly launched an expansive effort to bring wireless networks and affordable computing to emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, moves that could bring the Internet to a further billion people. The ...
Big Fish announced today that its cloud gaming app -- "Big Fish Instant Games" -- is now available on all four screens – PC, tablet, smartphone and TV, delivering games via interactive streaming video. The "Big Fish Instant Games" ...
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Yahoo has made some radical changes to its Flickr photo sharing service, which now has a more photo-filled interface and comes with a free terabyte of storage so that users can upload images at their original resolution. The changes were ...
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Research In Motion has unveiled a lower-cost BlackBerry aimed at consumers in emerging markets, and said it will offer its once-popular BlackBerry Messenger service on iPhones and devices running Google's Android software. CEO Thorsten ...
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Microsoft today took another shot at rival Google, calling its rival's online application suite, Google Docs, "too big a gamble." A Gartner analyst countered that Microsoft's point was moot for many users. In a post to its Office 365 ...
A standards organization has created a boot environment for tablets and PCs that could potentially run a 64-bit version of Windows RT. The UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Forum on Wednesday announced that its boot firmware ...
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SearchYourCloud, which provides a single search interface to find documents stored on a desktop or several cloud-based services, expanded on Tuesday to include Box. Access to Box is being included in a new version of the SearchYourCloud ...
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NASA has launched three smartphones into space in what scientists hope will be the lowest-cost satellites ever tested. The smartphones, Google-HTC Nexus Ones running the Android operating system, launched aboard the maiden flight of ...
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The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-on-year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time, according to the International Data Corp (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone ...
Consumer electronics giant Samsung has posted record revenues and profits in its first quarter financial results following a surge in sales of mobile phones. The company cut the price of its popular Android smartphones in advance of the ...
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