AbZorba Games' Hub of Fun mobile social casino has reached the significant milestone of 1 million app installations. ATHENS, GREECE, December 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- AbZorba Games' Hub of Fun mobile social casino has reached the ...
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Nokia reported a 39% year-on-year drop in the number of smartphones it sold in the second quarter, to 10.2 million, while its net loss more than trebled. The company's total revenue for the quarter fell 19% year over year, to 7.54 billion ...
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Steve Evans sits down with the head of Google's enterprise business to talk about social, mobile and cloud and whether Android is now ready for widespread enterprise adoption Can you give us an introduction to Google Enterprise? There ...
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Android was on over two-thirds of smartphones shipped in the second quarter, with Apple's iOS on around a sixth of them -- more than all the remaining smartphone OSes combined, IDC said Wednesday. Windows Phone's share of the market ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Monday said Windows Phone will grow quickly in the global smartphone market. “We are still relatively small … I expect the volumes on Windows Phone to really ramp quickly,” Ballmer said, as ...
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Google will begin to phase out its Sync service for consumers and discontinue several other services in early January. The shuttering of the services, described as "winter cleaning" by the company, was announced in a post on its official ...
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The worldwide tablet market is exploding with demand as people jettison laptops for smaller, touch-based devices. But even as tablets become must-have personal computing devices, Windows, and particularly Windows 8 tablets, won’t be a ...
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Windows 8 is finally here and the stakes are sky high for Microsoft. “We’re so happy to be here today and to celebrate the global availability of a new era of Windows and Windows-powered PCs,” said Steven Sinofsky, ...
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Digia has acquired the Qt framework from Nokia, giving it full control over the application framework, and now plans to expand support to more platforms, it said on Thursday. Digia, based in Finland, started taking over Qt in March 2011 ...
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PayPal has acquired Card.io, a developer of technology for using mobile phone cameras to scan credit cards and capture relevant information, the companies said. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. PayPal is already using ...
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The latest predictions from researcher IDC show a continuing increase in tablet sales from the end of 2012 all the way through 2016,according to the company's latest Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. IDC raised its estimate for the ...
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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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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During the Gartner Symposium, earlier in November the analyst firm predicted that IT departments will be expanding their budget to support bring-your-own-device (BYOD). As Computer Weekly previously reported, Gartner expects IT budgets ...
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VMware is launching a suite of products to help IT executives manage workspace apps on consumers' mobile devices – including Apple iPhones – securely. This will help enterprises regain control of IT amid growing ...
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