Two days after a Microsoft-made YouTube app arrived for Windows Phone, Google blocked Microsoft's access??- Sometimes, it just ain't easy being a Windows Phone owner. A mere two days after a revamped,?Microsoft-made YouTube app landed on ...
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Microsoft has directly accused Google of sabotaging the YouTube app on the Windows Phone platform with "impossible roadblocks", accusing the web company - which owns the video streaming network - of demanding unnecessary development ...
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Google has bowed to concerns over unauthorised eavesdropping by announcing that it will start to automatically encrypt data stored in Google Cloud Storage. The company says that it will use 128-bit advanced encryption standard (AES) ...
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As the BlackBerry brand slowly dies, considerations are being made about what do do with its assets, including more than 5,000 US patents built up over a decade of innovation in the mobile marketplace, and more than 3,700 wireless ...
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Nokia is to release its own tablet computer running Windows RT in September, according to sources in China, where it will be made. The device will feature a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 and will include support for 4G wireless ...
The much-anticipated update for Windows 8 will begin shipping on October 17, delivering a set of changes that Microsoft hopes will calm critics and improve sales of the tablet-optimized OS. Windows 8.1, previously known as Windows Blue, ...
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Nokia is hoping to boost the number of applications available for the Asha 501 to make it more competitive with low-cost Android smartphones with the release Thursday of the first version of a software development kit (SDK) for the phone. ...
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Source: Kickstarter Out of science fiction, or epic medieval legend, what if you could have the power to control your devices and information with a single, small object? Look no further, for now you can can possess your own digital ...
According to the latest research from Gartner, smartphone sales have surpassed feature phone sales for the first time, with smartphones accounting for 51.8 percent of all mobile phone sales in the second quarter of 2013. Worldwide ...
Tags: Smartphones, Mobile Phone Market
The iPhone's share of the world mobile market has declined, while both Android and Windows smartphones saw theirs rise during the second quarter the year. That's according to the latest figures from analysts at IDC in its Worldwide ...
Tags: Android, Windows Smartphone
Smartphone maker BlackBerry has announced that it is "exploring strategic alternatives" for the company, which may include break-up, taking the company private or its sale to a rival, such as Microsoft. "These alternatives could include, ...
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Window's new Phone App Studio service has received 30,000 applications in the first 48 hours following its announcement. By the end of last week, the service had received a demand far greater than Microsoft expected, and the company had ...
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Hoping to generate more apps for its mobile platform, Microsoft has launched an online tool that could allow even non-developers to create new programs for Windows Phone 8. The tool, called Windows Phone App Studio, is free to use and in ...
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Canalys has published its final second-quarter-2013 smartphone shipment estimates by vendor for the 50-plus countries that it tracks. Some 238.1 million units shipped in the second quarter, an impressive 50% on-year increase. And while ...
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Android has now captured 80 per cent of the global smartphone market, according to second quarter results analysed by research firm Strategy Analytics. According to the research, the Android operating system now accounts for 79.5 per cent ...
Tags: Android, Smartphone Market