Early uptake of Windows 8 appears to be lagging behind that of Windows 7 in the period after the older OS's launch back in 2009. A survey of online activity carried out by marketing intelligence firm NetApplications found that just one ...
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Apple iPhones and Android smartphones will replace BlackBerry as the top smartphones used by workers around the world in 2012,IDC said in an updated forecast. The IDC report on enterprise use of smartphones notes that businesses are ...
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Nokia continues to expand its line-up of advanced feature phones with the Asha 205,with a dedicated Facebook button allowing users to more easily access the social networking site. While Nokia is trying to revive its fortunes in the ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will support its Surface RT tablet with updates, including security patches, until April 2017, or nearly four-and-a-half years after its launch. The support lifecycle for the Surface with Windows RT tablet is ...
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has outlined her strategy for the company, with the focus firmly fixed on mobile and improving the "user experience" of the company's services. Further reading Yahoo's Mayer brings fellow ex-Google exec on ...
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Orange today launched a new application called Libon, enabling users to make calls and send texts for free. Initially just for iOS, but with an Android version due in the first quarter of 2013, the application can be used by customers of ...
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The National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S.plans to drop the BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion for Apple's iPhone,citing performance issues. The iPhone 5 smartphone will replace the NTSB's existing BlackBerry ...
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Jolla,the mobile operating system start-up founded by Nokia refugees,has finally unveiled Sailfish,the smartphone operating system based on Linux. The company had been in"stealth mode"for almost a year before it launched in the summer,and ...
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In the first U.S. implementation of smartphone ticketing for train passengers, Boston commuters can purchase and display tickets using the mTicket application for iOS and Android smartphones. London based Masabi developed the technology ...
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GoodSync is single-minded:It's intended to provide automatic synchronization and backup across folders and remote volumes.That narrow focus has two repercussions.First,the utility offers exhaustive,rich,and deep support for an array of ...
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Computerworld-Apple has told Mac owners running OS X Lion that the beta of Messages,its replacement for both the older iChat instant messaging service and SMS(short message service)texting,will expire Dec.14. To keep using the ...
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Numbers Academy, a unique competitive math puzzle game for iOS and Android, has launched on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. The second game from Copenhagen-based studio Pixel Juice, Numbers Academy provides a fun and ...
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Computerworld-Enterprise IT decision makers are about half as enthusiastic about the new Windows 8 as they were three years ago about the then-just-released Windows 7,an analyst said today. Employees,however,have a higher-than-expected ...
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Navigation technology provider TomTom today announced developer tools and a platform for location-based services(LBS)in the cloud to help in the rapid creation of apps for finding locations that are used by truck fleets and other ...
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CIO-With three major mobile platforms to choose from,what is an ambitious mobile app developer to do? There are Android and iOS,with 700,000 available apps each and huge market exposure--and the fierce developer competition that comes ...
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