The iPhone’s share of global smartphone app downloads stood at 29 percent in the second quarter of 2012, significantly below the 47 percent attributed to Android smartphones. New market data from ABI Research suggests that the power ...
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Samsung Galaxy S III’s display is thinner and has a greater range of colours than that of the Apple iPhone 5, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis revealed Tuesday. But IHS iSuppli analyst Vinita Jakhanwal noted that the differences ...
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As the battle between Apple’s iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S III rages on – a study conducted by the disassembly firm iFixit and nonprofit organisation Ecology Centre has concluded that the iPhone 5 is less toxic than the ...
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Independent benchmark tests by Futuremark have revealed that Microsoft's Surface tablet is surprisingly slow at Web browsing. When run through the Peacekeeper: Universal Browser Test, the Microsoft Surface speed test came out at just 348, ...
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The latest smartphone market share figures from Gartner show that Android-based devices, and in particular handsets from Samsung, are growing in popularity globally. Gartner’s second quarter 2012 market share data showed that ...
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The hacktivist collective Anonymous celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on Monday by claiming it had stolen data from Symantec and ImageShack servers and had found a zero-day flaw in ZPanel. Fawkes was arrested over an alleged Nov. 5, 1605 botched ...
In third-quarter 2012,global mobile phone market shipments were 444.5 million mobile phones,up 2.4%on 434.1 million units in Q3/2011,according to the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker of market research firm International Data ...
US-based manufacturer and distributor of consumer electronic power accessories Battery-Biz announced the launch of its BuQu Tech subsidiary and the introduction of the Magnetyze family of smartphone accessories with magnetic charging system ...
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If you're considering giving the gift of navigation this holiday season, we can point you in the right direction with our test-based advice. The good news is, there are just three leading brands from which to choose: Garmin, Magellan, and ...
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Philips today launches a range of docking speakers with Apple’s new Lightning connector, making them compatible with Lightning enabled devices. This new range of docking speakers offers a superior sound performance in comparison to ...
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It has been over a year in the making but Chevrolet has become the first of nine manufacturers to integrate Apple's Siri personal voice assistant into its MyLink infotainment system,with the Spark and Sonic LTZ and RS to gain the feature ...
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Apple has sacked Richard Williamson,the executive in charge of Apple Maps,following months of embarrassment for the company surrounding the application's performance. A report from Bloomberg claimed Williamson was forced out of Apple by ...
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Genius Electrical Optical Co., Ltd.’s consolidated revenue hit all-time high of NT$1.2 billion (US$42 million at US$1:NT$29) in October, rising 30.7% from a month earlier and 87.58% year on year. Industry executives ascribed the ...
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Research In Motion's(RIM)BlackBerry is being dropped in favour of the Apple iPhone by yet another US government agency,with reliability being cited as the key reason. The National Transportation Safety Board(NTSB),a body that investigates ...
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Microsoft's new mobile operating systems have been affected by a series of glitches that has had users complaining online – and some returning their devices to retailers and mobile telecoms companies for a refund. The most serious ...
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