Computerworld - Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) turned things around in 2012, posting an annual usage share gain for the first time in the last eight years, according to data published earlier this week by a Web analytics company. Net ...
IDG News Service - A famed iPhone hacker has developed a fresh way to jailbreak Apple's iOS 6 operating system in order to install unauthorized apps, but he says he won't release it. David Wang wrote on Reddit that he discovered several ...
Tags: iPhone, operating system, software, App Store
Sony has faced up to its recent failures and admitted it's forgotten how to "wow" an audience at the first official day of CES 2013 in Las Vegas today. "We used to make people say 'wow' all the time," announced a voiceover before the ...
Tags: Sony, USB 3.0 products, Computer Products
Day one of the Consumer Entertainment Show(CES)2013 in Las Vegas has seen a couple of reveals to potentially bend the rules of the existing mobile technology market. First up was the unveiling of Nvidia's Tegra 4 mobile chip,which the ...
Tags: CES 2013, Lenovo, 27in'table'PC, Nvidia, Tegra 4 mobile processor
Smartphone shipments will pass the one billion mark in a single calender year for the first time in 2013,while the number in use could reach two billion,suggests research by Deloitte analysts. The study,which defines smartphone as a ...
Tags: smartphones, touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, Deloitte analysts, HTC
The iPhone 6 from Apple may include new touch-screen technology,reports suggest. According to The China Times,which claims to have spoken to sources inside Apple's supply chain,Apple intends to switch to alternative touch technology for ...
Tags: iPhone 6, Apple, China Times, Touch On Display
Beleaguered smartphone producer HTC has seen its profits drop by 91 per cent year-on-year,according to the Taiwanese firm's unaudited results for the fourth quarter of 2012. The$34.5 million(£21.44m)profit represents HTC's worst ...
Tags: HTC, Android, smartphone, CES
With less than a week to go before this year's International CES Show in Las Vegas commences, it's unclear which new products will generate the most buzz among attendees of the massive trade show. However, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, ...
Tags: CES Show, new products, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, smart apps
Pick up your smartphone. Touch its screen. It's smooth, crystal-clear, and amazingly resilient. Chances are your smartphone is protected by a sheet of Corning Gorilla Glass. But what exactly is this Gorilla Glass? How is it fabricated and ...
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A product that promises to bring toys to life has been green-lit for manufacture. Atoms has just smashed its funding target of $100,000 on Kickstarter, having generated $183,232 in total. The products allow children to make a variety of ...
Greene + Gray today revealed its first collection of women's accessories designed to wrap tech in fashion, debuting silhouettes with features specific for carrying smartphones and laptops, but boasting style, fabrication and detailing that ...
Tags: Greene+Gray, Handbag, women's accessories, Stripe collection
Researchers in Singapore and Norway have teamed up to create a device that can crack quantum key distribution(QKD),a technique for securing digital communication originally designed to foil hackers. QKD allows two remote parties to ...
TrueConf presents its independent Mac OS X application.With their new application,TrueConf is widening its line of mobile cross-platform applications for Android and iOS devices. The TrueConf video conferencing solution for OS X is ...
Tags: TrueConf, Mac OS X, Mikhail Gotalsky
Apple will launch the next iPhone in May or June 2013, offering a swath of colors and multiple screen sizes in a move that would depart from a six-year practice, a Wall Street analyst said today. "Apple has the option to go up [in screen ...
Tags: Apple, next iPhone, swath of colors, multiple screen sizes
Assembly line workers are logging 12-hour days to churn out the latest handsets for Samsung Electronics at a factory in Huizhou, China. 24-year-old Wang Hong Wei knows what it's like: He and about four to six others would collectively ...
Tags: Samsung Electronics, Foxconn, Chinese factories, working hours