Google will offer its personal assistant app Google Now to users of Apple devices, stepping up its challenge to its rival's Siri program. "Google Now is about giving you just the right information at just the right time," Google's Andrea ...
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Don't be fooled by Samsung's new flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone. Superficially, it looks like its predecessor, the outrageously successful S3, which attracted 40 million sales in six months. The S4 brings with it a bucketload of new ...
SquareTrade today announced its Breakability Score for the new Samsung Galaxy S4. The SquareTrade Breakability Score ranks today's top devices based on how prone they are to break due to accidents. Evaluating key elements such as front and ...
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Google yesterday released an add-on that lets users view Microsoft Office documents within its Chrome browser, another small step in the search giant's encroachment on Microsoft's lucrative business productivity turf. Two months ago, ...
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Six years after the sale of the first iPhone and 14 years after the first BlackBerry email pager was unveiled, smartphone shipments have outnumbered sales of other types of mobile phones, IDC reported late Thursday. IDC said 216.2 million ...
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Google has purchased news streaming provider Wavii, the start-up's CEO has confirmed, as it immediately shut down its service before being incorporated into the world's number one web firm. The deal, worth an estimated $30m (£18m), ...
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The BlackBerry Q10 smartphone, the first traditional-style Blackberry bearing the company's long-awaited new operating system, has sold out on its first weekend. The first batch of the new device, which was released to generally positive ...
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The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-on-year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time, according to the International Data Corp (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone ...
Consumer electronics giant Samsung has posted record revenues and profits in its first quarter financial results following a surge in sales of mobile phones. The company cut the price of its popular Android smartphones in advance of the ...
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In first-quarter 2013, mobile phone shipments grew 12% year-on-year (YoY) to an estimated 405 million handsets, according to market analyst firm ABI Research’s Mobile Handset Markets database service. However, this was due to the ...
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NOKIA has signalled it will lift the lid on future additions to its Microsoft Windows-based smartphone range in mid-May. The Finnish phonemaker will hold a May 14 press conference in London and issued invitations to journalists this ...
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With the BlackBerry Q10 qwerty smartphone coming to the U.S. market in late May, it's fair to ask: How many customers will want to buy it? The BlackBerry Q10 has a physical keyboard that is still preferred by many Blackberry users. ...
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LinkedIn has revamped the contacts management feature of its professional networking website and packaged the functionality into a new iOS application. The company will begin on Thursday a limited trial of the new LinkedIn Contacts with ...
Invoking the success of Apple's game-changing iPhone and iPad, CEO Tim Cook has hinted that Apple will introduce "exciting new product categories" starting this fall and through the end of 2014. Speaking on the company's quarterly ...
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Apple's net profit dropped during the second quarter of 2013 as the company's iPhone shipment growth slowed down, based on year-over-year comparisons. Apple recorded a profit of US$9.5 billion for the second quarter ending on March 30, ...
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