Concerns about the increased cost of compliance with privacy regulations influenced Google's decision to shut down Google Reader from July. According to an anonymous source speaking to AllThingsD, Google is attempting to better manage how ...
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BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins has described Apple’s iOS as an outdated user interface, and has suggested that the iPhone could be at risk of being replaced if Apple doesn’t speed up its innovation process. In an interview with ...
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BlackBerry's upcoming American launch of the Z10 smartphone on 26 March has received a blow, with reports suggesting one of its biggest customers, the US Department of Defense, is looking to replace staff BlackBerry phones with iPhones and ...
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BlackBerry began a fight to regain share in the key U.S. market on Friday with the debut of the first phone running its BlackBerry 10 operating system. The BlackBerry Z10 went on sale nationwide at stores of AT&T, the country's biggest ...
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Both BlackBerry and the U.K. government have denied reports that the new BB10 software has been rejected for use in sensitive government communications. Tuesday evening, U.K. newspaper The Guardian reported that the new BB10 operating ...
BlackBerry has denied reports that its smartphones are set to be dropped by the Pentagon, insisting the Z10 smartphone and BB10 are in the US Department of Defense's plans. Sources suggested that the Pentagon was purchashing 650,000 Apple ...
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Apple's iOS has had its "revolutionary" moment, and now faces only "evolution" as carrying legacy and expectations decreases the opportunity to innovate. So says Richard Kinder (pictured), technology VP of mobile software management firm ...
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BlackBerry Z10 sales kick off this Friday in the U.S., but it is still unclear how popular the smartphone and its Q10 cousin running BlackBerry 10 will be, amid a number of contradictory predictions and indicators. AT&T will put the Z10 ...
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BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins has taken a swipe at rival Apple's iPhone, claiming that its user interface is five years old and suggesting that it is in need of a refresh. "Apple did a fantastic job in bringing touch devices ...
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Gartner analysts have said in a report released Monday that BlackBerry’s new BB10 software isn’t going to achieve world-beating results anytime soon. The researchers predicted that BlackBerry’s global smartphone market ...
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Although Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said this week that Chrome OS and Android will remain separate operating systems "for a very, very long time," one analyst still thinks the two will eventually merge. Despite Schmidt's comments, ...
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BlackBerry's new operating system faces its first big test in the U.S. Friday when the first phone based on BlackBerry 10 goes on sale. The U.S. launch comes more than a month after the phone, called the Z10, went on sale in the U.K. Jan. ...
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A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman on Thursday said a report suggesting the defense agency is dumping BlackBerry devices was inaccurate, and that BlackBerry is still part of ongoing DoD mobile device deployment plans. The spokesman ...
What is T-Mobile USA planning for its press event in New York City next Tuesday? The carrier already disclosed last fall and again at International CES in January that it plans to offer unsubsidized smartphones with no contract ...
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It's been eons in coming, but pre-ordered BlackBerry Z10's will start being delivered in Australian from Monday. More than four years has elapsed since BlackBerry brought out its first touchscreen model, the Storm, in late 2008. It also ...
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