Verizon Wireless recently began listing "High Risk Android Apps" on its Web site and now alerts customers to 13 apps that prevent a smartphone or tablet from going into sleep mode, causing heavy battery and data usage. "This page lists ...
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Through its new Smart Plan platform, Alcatel-Lucent wants to make mobile subscription plans more flexible and allow data packages to be shared among users and handed out by companies to their customers using an application on smartphones ...
Opera's announcement yesterday that it would ditch its own browser and JavaScript engines in favor of the open-source WebKit and V8 engines will let it compete in the lucrative iOS market. But Opera's CTO maintained that that was just one ...
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The company formerly known as RIM delivered on its promise to breathe new life into its aging, iconic BlackBerry product line, but BlackBerry devices still face an uphill battle against Apple's iPhone and myriad smartphones based on ...
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Nokia and LG Electronics have both launched new phones that can handle two SIM cards, as they aim to attract more buyers in developing countries. Offering dual-SIM products has become increasingly important in the last couple of years . ...
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Xylem Inc. has announced that its Bell & Gossett System Syzer software program is available as a mobile application for the Android operating system. Widely recognized as the industry standard for calculating flow rates and pressure ...
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Xylem Inc. has launched a new mobile app version of its popular Xylem Dewatering Handbook. The app provides customers with quick and easy access to dewatering, water removal and flood control pump product information while ‘on the ...
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The Tokyo government has posted nearly 300 NFC location tags around the upscale Ginza shopping district and released an Android app to interact with them as part of an experiment to help guide shoppers. The latest trial, part of the ...
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Social networks are expected to light up tonight as users react to the president's State of the Union address. President Obama will give the first State of the Union address of his second term at 9 p.m ET. With Obama expected to touch on ...
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Forget fumbling with cash and credit cards; smartphones have long been seen as a way to make in store purchases faster and easier. But several challenges need to be overcome before the technology takes off. The field of mobile payments ...
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Twitter is modifying its search engine to include tweets more than a week old, a move it said will help users uncover better content. Over the next few days, searches will return "a fairly small percentage of total tweets ever sent" but ...
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A critical buffer overflow vulnerability patched this week in the widely used open-source cURL library (libcurl) has the potential to expose a large number of applications and systems to remote code execution attacks. CURL is a ...
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Adobe on Thursday updated Flash Player to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers were already using to hijack Windows PCs and Macs. The out-of-band, or emergency, update was Flash's first of the year and the first since ...
Twitter has pushed out an update to its mobile app that has a new search tool intended to make it easier for users to find relevant content. The update, released Wednesday, includes several modifications to both the Android and iOS ...
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Dropbox today announced a new synchronization API for iOS and Android-powered devices that it said will offer developers a new code library to help them better focus on creating mobile apps. The new API is available today on Dropbox's ...
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