It's no longer just about those 140-character tweets. Now Twitter is helping people discover their inner filmmaker. Twitter announced Thursday the launch of Vine, a service that lets mobile users capture and share short, looping videos. ...
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Google Maps slipped last year, giving Facebook enough room to become the most popular mobile app in the U.S., according to ComScore. Facebook's mobile app had nearly 85.5 million unique visitors in December, while the Google Maps app had ...
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Google has added offline presentations and editing to its Slides application, as it continues to bring its Internet apps to the desktop. The company announced in a Google Drive blog post that its presentation software now allows users to ...
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Civica CTO John Hood has branded Microsoft's Surface RT tablet "a bit of a lemon", telling Computing that the machine lacks the established ecosystem and standout features to separate it from existing products. Speaking to Computing at ...
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Microsoft will reap enormous revenue when it introduces mobile versions of its Office productivity suite for iOS and Android, an analyst said on Friday, despite warning that the window of opportunity is quickly closing. “The day ...
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According to Good Technology, enterprises are reporting they are cutting costs and increasing efficiency through BYOD programmes. Organisations around the globe are slowly but surely implementing BYOD schemes in the workplace. Good ...
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Amazon.ca today announced that the new family of Kindle e-readers is now available to customers in Canada. The all-new top-of-the-line Kindle Paperwhite is the most advanced e-reader ever built with 62% more pixels and 25% increased ...
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Rather than merely devising a mobile application strategy, development shops need to view mobile apps as just one component of a larger, "omni-channel" application architecture, according to an analyst report released this month. The ...
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With the latest generation of high-end smartphones sporting power-hungry 5-inch screens, a growing number of phone vendors are emphasizing bigger batteries rather than thinner devices. After HTC's introduction of a 5-inch, full-HD screen ...
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Pope Benedict has told church leaders social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter aren't a virtual world they can ignore, but rather a very real world they must engage if they want to spread the faith to the next generation. The ...
Analysts are unsure whether RIM's new enterprise mobility software, now available for download, can halt the migration away from BlackBerry smartphones. The new BES 10 tool set combines security, device and application management for ...
When Canonical officially announced Ubuntu for phones just a few weeks ago, it demonstrated an attractive interface but was otherwise light on specifics regarding the hardware, carriers, or apps that might be involved in actual devices. A ...
"Not dead yet" could well be the new BlackBerry marketing theme, as the world prepares to hear about two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones to be announced next Wednesday. Days before the announcement, there is fairly wide disagreement among ...
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The blocked Facebook friend-search feature on Twitter's new Vine mobile video app may be an annoyance for users, but it's all part of the social networking game. Vine, a service launched Thursday by Twitter that allows users to quickly ...
Mozilla announced this week that it had launched Keon and Peak, two smartphones based on the web-centric Firefox OS platform. The first phones will start shipping in February, and have been developed in cooperation with Spanish operator ...
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