According to the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, fourth quarter online sales were up 10.3 percent year over year. For the period from 10/1/13 through 12/31/13, key drivers were: Mobile Traffic and Sales: Mobile traffic soared, ...
Most stores were closed but Americans still managed to shop on Christmas Day—increasingly on their smartphones. An IBM survey showed Christmas Day online sales were up 16.5 percent over last year, with a strong boost from ...
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Cornell University engineers have developed a new Smartphone Cholesterol Application for Rapid Diagnostics, or ‘smartCARD’, that employs the Smartphone’s camera to read the cholesterol level. With this lifesaving app, ...
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British sales of Apple's iPhone 5S have seen it outsell its sister smartphone, the iPhone 5C, at a ratio of three to one, but Apple's overall share of the market is still smaller than it was this time last year. That's according to the ...
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Most mobile phone users have never heard of Tizen. Neither have car owners or anyone with a fridge. Samsung Electronics Co. wants to change that. The South Korean electronics giant is in a quiet push to make its Tizen operating system a ...
Etisalat and BlackBerry today announced an integrated carrier billing service for BlackBerry smartphone users in the UAE. It will allow Etisalat and BlackBerry customers to purchase applications on BlackBerry World, and pay directly with ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules that it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has introduced ...
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Corning Gorilla Glass is revolutionary hardware that makes smartphone displays scratch-proof, so you don't need to spend additional cash on a scratch guard to save you handset's display. This glass is also extremely tough, and is chemically ...
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Apple faces a threat from an unexpected quarter: Chinese developers crafting Android apps, an analytics firm said today. Chinese developers build nearly two-thirds of the mobile apps used by Chinese consumers — an even higher ...
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In the never-ending battle of iOS versus Android, one of the biggest marks against Google is that its Play store isn't regulated enough for the novice smartphone user.?For every golden application, there's at least three unsafe or ...
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Two days after a Microsoft-made YouTube app arrived for Windows Phone, Google blocked Microsoft's access??- Sometimes, it just ain't easy being a Windows Phone owner. A mere two days after a revamped,?Microsoft-made YouTube app landed on ...
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Samsung has unveiled an Android flip-phone with dual-touchscreens in China, which will likely be positioned as a premium device. The phone, called the SCH-W789, is displayed on Samsung’s mobile products website in China, and has two ...
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China's telecoms regulator has recently added a touch of clarity to the confusion surrounding the future technological direction of the country's mobile market – a touch and nothing more. After months of speculation on when the ...
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Lenovo will open its Reach consumer cloud service beta to anyone who wants to sign up later this quarter in North America, which could boost the Chinese company's hardware sales by tying that portfolio to the cloud service. A date for ...
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Based on an analysis of mobile data traffic from its installed customer base, Flash Networks, the leading provider of mobile Internet optimization and monetization solutions, found that Instagram video viewing exceeded YouTube on the fourth ...
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