A former Apple executive has spoken about his twenty years at the company, and has given his perspective of what CEO Tim Cook is like to work for. David Sobotta was a sales executive at Apple from 1984 to 2004, and, though he ...
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Route de l’Horlogerie – Genève: an overview of the Swiss watchmaking panorama Geneva’s watchmaking history can be discovered through a unique Geneva Watch Tour. Punctuated by around 50 monobrand boutiques and ...
Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is set to lose its stranglehold on the government mobile market, as momentum to broaden the number of smartphone suppliers in Whitehall gathers pace. Currently, Blackberry is the only smartphone ...
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Intel kicked off its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco Tuesday showing off an Ultrabook with iPhone Siri-like functions, new gesture controls for PCs, and its newest Haswell Core processor aimed at the mobile PC market. Intel ...
Microsoft and Amazon will launch own-brand smartphones mid-2013, including a Windows Phone 8 Surface. iPhone maker Foxconn has apparently received orders from Microsoft and Amazon to build smartphones. According to Digitimes, the handsets ...
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Apple has been quietly improving its widely criticised iOS 6 Maps app, according to new reports. Apple Insider notes that the Brooklyn Bridge, which was previously distorted in Apple’s 3D Flyover mode, is now three dimensional and ...
The first wave of devices running BlackBerry 10, Research In Motion’s new smartphone operating system, have entered carrier certification labs around the world, the company has announced. The lab entry allows cellular carriers to ...
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Independent benchmark tests by Futuremark have revealed that Microsoft's Surface tablet is surprisingly slow at Web browsing. When run through the Peacekeeper: Universal Browser Test, the Microsoft Surface speed test came out at just 348, ...
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Global smartphone shipments will reach 1.7 billion in 2017, with emerging markets experiencing particularly strong growth, according to Ovum’s ‘Smartphones in Emerging Markets: Shifting Landscape’ report. The analyst ...
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Google's new app scanner in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean moves the platform closer to Apple's model of vetting software before it is made available to mobile device users, a security expert says. Google isn't expected to copy Apple's model of ...
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Research In Motion continues to struggle as it works to finish the BlackBerry 10 operating system, but the audience at the London edition of the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour developer event still thinks the company can play an important ...
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The latest smartphone market share figures from Gartner show that Android-based devices, and in particular handsets from Samsung, are growing in popularity globally. Gartner’s second quarter 2012 market share data showed that ...
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The hacktivist collective Anonymous celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on Monday by claiming it had stolen data from Symantec and ImageShack servers and had found a zero-day flaw in ZPanel. Fawkes was arrested over an alleged Nov. 5, 1605 botched ...
London's buses will be the first mode of transport to accept contactless bank card payments,starting today. The whole fleet of London buses will accept the payments,meaning that passengers can use an American Express,MasterCard,Maestro or ...
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The Co-operative is the latest bank to launch a mobile banking service after signing a three-year deal with mobile banking supplier Monitise. The smartphone app is available to all the bank’s registered internet customers and those ...
Tags: mobile banking service, Monitise, UK