Google has introduced stricter rules for applications on its Android mobile operating system to reduce the number of malicious apps in the Google Play app market and improve its reputation. The revised Google Android developer policy ...
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Now that Microsoft has finally launched its next-generation operating system, Windows 8, it must tackle what may be the most daunting marketing challenge it has ever faced. Once the supreme leader of personal computing, Microsoft is now ...
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Apple rarely admits anything is amiss, but in an email to an Australian iPhone 5 user, the company has apparently conceded that the iOS Maps app needs improvement. The Apple Maps application replaces Google Maps on the iPhone, but it is ...
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HTC claimed a patent victory over Apple in the latest legal battle in the ongoing smartphone patent turf war. In a London court yesterday the judge ruled that HTC had not infringed four technologies that Apple had claimed as its own and ...
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After several federal agencies said they will stop using BlackBerry devices and switch to iPhones, Research In Motion took the unusual step today of announcing a tough security certification for BlackBerry 10 in advance of the device's ...
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An upgrade of Microsoft's Office Web Apps has been finalized, and a combination of enhancements makes this Web-hosted Office version work much better on iPads than previous iterations. As a result, Microsoft, which has been reticent to ...
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Almost three quarters of retail banks are increasing how much they spend on innovation as they attempt to better engage customers through mobile and online channels. According to a study of 300 banks in 66 countries, carried out by IT ...
Enterprises want the best value from their investments and will try to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of their datacentres in 2013, according to a study from analyst Ovum. The sustainable datacentre market will see accelerated ...
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Mobile payment systems in the U.S. have been long on promise and short on reality. The launch Monday of the Isis system in Salt Lake City and Austin will promote the adoption of mobile payments among users of nine smartphones that support ...
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Citrix is focused on helping enterprises deal with the challenge of running desktops and applications in a new mobile-centric world where tablets and smartphones proliferate. "The technologies that we have, including application and ...
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Nvidia plans to integrate CPU cores alongside graphics cores in Tesla high-performance chips, which is a change from current Tesla chips that have only graphics processors. Tesla is targeted at supercomputing and enterprise applications. ...
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Samsung Display will terminate its contract to supply LCD panels for Apple due to financial pressures caused by Apple's tight supply chain management, according to a news report published in The Korea Times on Monday. Samsung can't ...
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A judge in the US has denied Apple's request to ban sales of Samsung smartphones that Apple claims violated its patents. The decision was made due to the lack of evidence to prove the infringed patents had hurt Apple's US sales. "The ...
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The double-dip recession is offsetting some of the concerns associated with cloud-based services as the global cloud industry is set to be worth an extra $2.2bn before the end of the year, according to KPMG. Concerns around security, ...
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Even before Apple sent invitations for the Tuesday launch event where it will likely unveil a smaller iPad, consumers were unloading their old tablets in increasing numbers so they can trade up to Apple's latest, according to gadget ...
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