Wearable gadgets, curved smartphones and new game consoles defined technology in 2013. That's why it's no surprise they make up the bulk of our top 10 devices of the year. Some of these devices are essentially much better versions of ...
Nokia recently released its first-ever Windows tablet,the Lumia 2520.After testing the device,I wonder why Nokia bothered. There's just not much to recommend about the device.Its design is unremarkable.Its screen is of lower resolution ...
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I find giant phones hard to carry and use, but I'm well aware that many people like the bigger images and text they offer. These so-called phablets, with screens measuring about 6 inches (15.24 centimeters) diagonally, are nearly as big ...
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\ Samsung has announced plans to merge its smartphone and camera divisions, according to Korean news station ETNews. It has reorganised the divisions so that the two are essentially one and the same. Samsung Electronics said, ”We ...
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There is insufficient user demand to include support for Windows Phone on BlackBerry's mobile device management platform, the company has told Computing. While echoing the company's latest "back to its roots" enterprise-focused message, ...
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Transport for London (TfL) has overseen a rise of more than 500 per cent in its employees' use of mobile phones and tablets under its bring your own device (BYOD) scheme over the past three years. Official figures obtained under the ...
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Microsoft has admitted that it has too many operating systems and will no longer offer either Windows Phone, Windows 8 or Windows RT. Speaking at the UBS Global Technology Conference, Microsoft spoke about the effective failure of its ...
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BlackBerry 10 users will be able to run Android apps directly on their smartphones when the company rolls out new features in the mobile operating system early next year. The feature will enable developers to easily re-purpose Android ...
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Microsoft's version of Windows for ARM-based devices, Windows RT, is being lined up for the chop, after Microsoft executive Julie Larson-Green admitted that three different versions of the Windows operating system was one too many. ...
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Steve Ballmer’s audacious vision of “One Microsoft, all the time,” delivering a single, seamless user experience across a wide range of devices, will not be achieved without digital bloodshed. Windows will die, a ...
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More than 99 percent of Nokia’s shareholders have voted to approve Microsoft’s acquisition of the Finnish company’s Devices & Services business. Nokia entered into an agreement to sell “substantially all” ...
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Mobile management vendors including Good Technology and MobileIron are increasing their efforts to pitch Android and iOS as alternatives to BlackBerry, thanks to improved security and management tools. On Monday, BlackBerry announced it ...
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Devices running Google’s Android operating system accounted for 81% of all smartphones sold worldwide in the third quarter of 2013, according to a study released today by IDC. Of the more than 261 million units shipped, just under ...
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(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) The Nokia Lumia 1520 is now officially available for preorder through both AT&T and Microsoft with a launch date of November 22. AT&T's preorder page shows the phone selling for $199 with the ...
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Microsoft is making $2bn every year in patent licensing for Android, according to Nomura financial analyst Rick Sherlund. However, the 95 per cent profit margins it enjoys as a result of the popularity of Android is covering up deep ...
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