BlackBerry 10 smartphones are "very good" devices and don't deserve the negative reaction they often receive, Adrian Collinson, Head of IT for the Force India Formula 1 team has told Computing, with security a key benefit for the outfit. ...
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The shake-out of the mobile phone market has continued with the news that Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic is to discontinue making smartphones. It comes a week after its rival NEC announced a similar withdrawal. However, ...
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The iPhone's share of the world mobile market has declined, while both Android and Windows smartphones saw theirs rise during the second quarter the year. That's according to the latest figures from analysts at IDC in its Worldwide ...
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Smartphone maker BlackBerry has announced that it is "exploring strategic alternatives" for the company, which may include break-up, taking the company private or its sale to a rival, such as Microsoft. "These alternatives could include, ...
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LinkedIn used to offer a pretty passive experience: Put your resume on the professional social networking site and hope it catches a recruiter’s eye. But LinkedIn isn’t resting on its laurels, especially when it comes to ...
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Intel has posted information on its website about new tablets for the education market with 10-inch and 7-inch screens, Atom chips and the Android operating systems code-named Ice Cream Sandwich and Jellybean. The Intel Education Tablet ...
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Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that its AWT6751 and AWT6755 dual-band ProEficient-Plus WCDMA power amplifiers (PAs) are enabling wireless connectivity in Samsung ...
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The sales process in Freight Transportation has undergone major changes over the last decade. The economics of having a street sales team is being called into question when you consider the compensation, incentives, office space, car ...
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Canalys has published its final second-quarter-2013 smartphone shipment estimates by vendor for the 50-plus countries that it tracks. Some 238.1 million units shipped in the second quarter, an impressive 50% on-year increase. And while ...
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Android has now captured 80 per cent of the global smartphone market, according to second quarter results analysed by research firm Strategy Analytics. According to the research, the Android operating system now accounts for 79.5 per cent ...
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Soft drinks maker Britvic is dumping BlackBerry in favour of Windows Phone devices from Nokia. The company is currently rolling out Nokia Lumia 720 smartphones to 800 staff as part of the platform shift at the company. Further reading ...
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NEC will introduce no new smartphones, and will make current models only to order, as it struggles to find the economies of scale required to compete in the market. The Japanese company is ending the development, manufacturing and sale of ...
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Of the top-selling smartphones in the U.S. in the past year, customers ranked two Samsung smartphones higher than the last three Apple iPhone models. The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, released Wednesday, ranked both the ...
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Microsoft today released a stripped-down version of Office for Android smartphones, continuing its strategy of tying its mobile suite to the Office 365 rent-not-buy subscription plans. Wednesday's launch of Office Mobile for Android ...
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Computerworld - Starbucks has dropped AT&T as its in-store Wi-Fi provider, teaming up instead with Google and Level 3 Communications to offer 10 times faster network speeds. The coffee shop chain said the changeover will start in August ...
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