The company shot down speculation yet again today that it has a phone under wraps. Instead, the social network unveiled a home screen, along with a family of apps, for Android phones. "There is no phone," said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook ...
SALES of traditional desktop and mobile personal computers are expected to drop 7.6 per cent this year as consumers shift to tablets and other devices, a market tracker says. The report by research firm Gartner said all connected devices ...
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Samsung expects a rise in operating profit of 8.7 trillion won (£5.05bn) in the first quarter of 2013, a 53 per cent year-on-year increase. In the first quarter of 2012, the South Korean firm made an operating profit of 5.7tn ...
Google has announced that it will no longer be basing future releases of its Chrome browser on WebKit, the open-source rendering engine that it shares with Apple's Safari. Instead it will be releasing a fork of WebKit dubbed Blink, which ...
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ubAlert LLC today announced the addition of the Android app on Google Play to its growing social network. The global emergency warning platform, which alerts users of the location and severity of real-time disasters, is already available ...
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Backupify, a provider of cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, today launched an enhanced set of backup and recovery features to support its core offering for enterprise-level ...
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Almost 2.4 billion computers, tablets and cell phones will ship this year, according to estimates from Gartner. That's a jump of 9% on 2012, and the industry has plenty more growth ahead. By 2017, Gartner expects just under 3 billion of ...
Microsoft today said it will ship nine security updates next week, two rated "critical," to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, SharePoint Server, Office Web Apps and the company's anti-malware software in Windows 8 and RT. One ...
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Google has launched its Microsoft Office substitute, Quickoffice, for the iPhone, Android smartphones and Android tablets, fulfilling a promise made in December. The release on Tuesday follows the launch of Quickoffice for Apple's iPad ...
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Chinese internet giant Baidu is also developing its own Google Glass-like device that will allow for hands-free Internet searches. But the company has yet to decide if the device will ever reach the market.? The device, called Baidu Eye, ...
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It's no secret that Samsung is up against Apple in many ways, in products, sales and innovation. However, even in the face of Apple's patent infringement lawsuits, Samsung is still climbing the charts. The electronics giant sold ...
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Internet companies and privacy advocates appear headed for a fight over a proposal to broaden California's so-called Shine the Light Law, which requires online companies to disclose to consumers how their personal information is used. The ...
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For many of us—especially those with kids—programming the DVR to record shows and movies until it's crammed to capacity is a regular ritual. But how many of those shows do you actually ever watch? Probably not as many as you ...
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Google launched its Microsoft Office substitute, Quickoffice, for Apple's iPhone, Android smartphones and Android tablets, fulfilling a promise made in December. The release on Tuesday follows the launch of Quickoffice for Apple's iPad ...
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The second-generation Nexus 7 tablet, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, will be launched around July, according to two unnamed sources in a Reuters report. The Android device will be made by Asustek, and Google hopes to ship 8 ...
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