Analysts predict that cloud computing will play a larger role in mobility and consumerization of IT, Windows Phone and Android tablet sales will grow and there will more hot-desking in large organisations in 2013. IDC head of research ...
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AT&T will be the exclusive provider of a limelight yellow 8GB version of the Windows Phone 8x.Computerworld-AT&T today announced prices for the three Windows Phone 8 smartphones it will sell in the coming holiday season,including a$99.99 ...
Facebook has been carrying out trials with local businesses, exchanging free Wi-Fi for check-ins on the social network. The project is called Social Wi-Fi and sees Facebook offer a small number of firms routers and free Wi-Fi if they ...
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Cross-platform development frameworks such as Apache Cordova, Sencha Touch and Xamarin.Mobile are all compatible with Windows Phone 8, making it easier to create apps for the new OS while at the same time developing apps for other ...
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Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 8,its latest operating system(OS)for smartphones. Microsoft intends Windows Phone 8 to take market share away from the likes of Apple and Google's Android,which currently dominate the smartphone ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touts the personalization features of Windows Phone 8 in a new 46-second ad. The ad,now accessible on YouTube,was first shown at the formal launch of Windows Phone 8 on Monday,where Ballmer appeared onstage ...
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics reported record net profits for the third quarter based on strong sales of its Galaxy smartphones and flat panels. The world's largest technology company saw net profits grow 91 per cent to Won6.56tn ...
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Global smartphone shipments grew 34.8%annually from 120 million units in third-quarter 2011 to 161.7 million units in third-quarter 2012,according to the report'Global Smartphone Shipments Reach 162 Million Units in Q3 2012'from the ...
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Samsung has almost doubled its profits in its third quarter of 2012,thanking the performance of its smartphone division for the significant rise. Net profit for the three-month period hit KRW6.56tn(GBP3.7bn),which represented a ...
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The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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18 October 2012 Smartphone population tops 1 billion in Q3/2012 The number of smartphones in use worldwide surpassed the 1 billion-unit mark for the first time ever in the third-quarter 2012,according to the report'Global Smartphone ...
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Digia recently acquired the full Qt business from Nokia,Juhapekka Niemi,director,Digia,Qt,talks to Electronics Weekly about how the mobile software business will develop and grow in a market where open source has growing popularity. What ...
Nokia's Nearby location app has exited beta testing, and is now available in the phone maker's app store, as it continues to push location services across its range of phones. Nearby is a free Web-based application for finding the nearest ...
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Microsoft has acquired mobile authentication solutions provider PhoneFactor, which it hopes will help it to offer secure mobile business applications for enterprises. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Further reading ...
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Mobile operator EE will announce its launch date for 4G services imminently as it finalises its deployment testing programme. An EE spokesperson would not be drawn on yesterday's rumours of peace talks between communications regulator ...
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