In the 10 days that Facebook Home has been available, it has had more than 500,000 downloads. While that number may not be as high as it had been expected to be, it's a strong start for the Android launcher, according to Ezra Gottheil, an ...
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Microsoft's Surface Pro will finally be available in the UK next month, with the announcement that the tablet will be shipped to 19 countries, mostly across Europe and Oceania before the end of May. It will also launch in Korea, Malaysia, ...
The consumer-electronics stalwart hopes to leverage its position in smartphones and home electronics while adding ZigBee-based SSL to the mix, and also used Lightfair as a platform to launch new packaged LEDs and LED modules. Samsung held ...
Samsung held a press conference on the eve of Lightfair International (LFI) 2013, and revealed plans to sell wireless ZigBee-based retrofit lamps with the launch of a starter kit planned for the third quarter. The company also announced new ...
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Miami Children's Hospital recently launched a free iPhone app that uses Wi-Fi triangulation to help patients and their families find their way around the medical center. The app, called Fit4KidsCare, is even designed to detect vertical ...
Mobile users in North America are hanging up and using email, text or social networking at a rapid pace, according to a survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Postpaid subscribers, who pay a regular bill for mobile service at the end of each ...
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Yahoo is giving itself a bit of a makeover. Earlier this week it launched two new mobile apps for email and weather; now it's ditching numerous longstanding products, including Deals and SMS Alerts, in an attempt to sharpen its focus, the ...
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From December to March, Apple's iPhone lost ground to smartphones from rival Samsung in a survey to assess consumers' future purchase plans, a market research firm said last week. According to 451 Research's ChangeWave, of 4,000 consumers ...
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Microsoft Took another hard knock this month when top tech researchers laid much of the blame for dwindling first-quarter PC sales on the beleaguered Windows 8 operating system. Estimates of first-quarter shipments, from both IDC and ...
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Intel and Etisalat Misr, one of the leading telecom operators in Egypt, have announced the launch of the Middle East's first smartphone with Intel Inside – the new Etisalat E-20 smartphone. The Etisalat E-20 smartphone is said to be ...
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ARM, the Cambridge-based chip designer, has posted higher than expected first quarter financial results, citing strong demand for its new chip design in tablets and smartphones for the growth. The firm posted first quarter revenues of ...
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In many parts of the world, smartphone shipments account for a larger percentage of mobile handset shipments than feature phones and low-cost handsets, yet among smartphones segmentation is increasing to three price tiers (low, mid, and ...
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• New LED reveal® bulb uses GE technology to avoid dull yellow rays while saving energy • GE Lighting’s Chief Innovation Manager answers five questions about consumer LED lighting New reveal® LED light ...
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NETGEAR?, Inc. today announced support for Beamforming+ on the NETGEAR R6300 802.11ac Dual Band Gigabit WiFi Router and the NETGEAR A6200 802.11ac Dual Band WiFi USB Adapter. Beamforming+ is also available through a free firmware upgrade ...
The IRUG Annual Conference is a gathering of U.S. and international retail systems users and solution providers participating in sessions on the latest in education, experiences, best practices and information in key areas of change: the ...
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