Smartphone maker BlackBerry is to port its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) tool to Android and iOS. It will be available on all three platforms by the summer, claims the company, and crucially will be free. Further reading Analysis: ...
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Planned Windows 8 update to address complaints and confusion with Microsoft's new operating system will be made available for free this year, the company said overnight. Microsoft also announced a name for the update: Windows 8.1. It is ...
Research In Motion has unveiled a lower-cost BlackBerry aimed at consumers in emerging markets, and said it will offer its once-popular BlackBerry Messenger service on iPhones and devices running Google's Android software. CEO Thorsten ...
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LG Electronics today announced that its Google TVs will be updated with the latest version of the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system (OS). LG is showcasing Google TVs with the new operating system at the Google I/O developer ...
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The New York State attorney general has sent letters to the chief executives of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Samsung asking them for help in combating cellphone theft and hinting he may pursue legal action if they don't cooperate. The ...
One of Microsoft's top Windows executives this week said the company remains bullish about Windows RT and has no intention of dumping the limited-feature, touch-enabled tablet operating system. Analysts accepted that at face value, but ...
InfoSonics Corporation today announced the expansion of its ruggedized line of phones with the launch of its new verykool RS75 Smartphone. The RS75 is powered by a 1.0 GHz processor and the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system. ...
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Intel has acquired two software companies as it continues to build its burgeoning portfolio to include more tools to write and manage programs and interfaces. The company on Thursday announced the acquisition of Belfast-based Aepona and ...
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Google Glass developers and early adopters should be getting a software upgrade within the next week that adds tweaks to Google+, Gmail and search. A few thousand developers and early adopters have been working with the computerized ...
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The upcoming Firefox OS will appear on higher-end smartphones, and not just entry-level handsets, with Sony expected to release a premium device running the operating system, a Mozilla executive said. "Sony is known for quality and user ...
Microsoft this week said that it had sold 100 million licenses of Windows 8 in the operating system's first six months. But how many copies are being used? That's a question Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst with Moor Insights & ...
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EMC will continue extending its Isilon OneFS network-attached storage operating system to new use cases later this year, adding deduplication, compliance auditing and object storage features. Last year's Version 7.0 of the scale-out NAS ...
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Google Maps is reportedly getting an overhaul that may be shown off at the annual Google I/O conference next week. According to the Google Operating System blog, an independent site that tracks the Internet firm, the launching of a new ...
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Canadian Tire began issuing thousands of BlackBerry Q10 smartphones to corporate employees in Toronto on Monday after rolling out Z10 models weeks earlier. The overwhelming majority of the company's 3,000 corporate users wanted the Q10 ...
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Microsoft's apparent plan to automatically update its own Windows Store apps is drawing praise from security experts. "Auto-updating apps ... improve security and are great for anybody that does not have their own update or patch ...