Google wants more developers to use its App Engine cloud service, and has launched Mobile Backend Starter to make it easier. Running servers on top of a hosted environment to power mobile apps can be a bit of a headache, according to ...
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Development platform vendor Verivo Software wants to provide the back end for mobile enterprise apps to make it easier for corporate programmers to add features such as off-line access and authentication. As company CEO Steve Levy puts ...
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Europe will see no new companies with the power of Apple or Facebook for some while yet, Parallels virtualisation platform founder Serguei Beloussov (pictured) has said, amid a grim outlook for the existing crop of technology giants. ...
Health gadget maker Fitbit seems to be following its competition. Discontent with users stuffing their Fitbit Ones into pockets, bras or clipping them to trousers, Fitbit is selling a device called the Flex, which attaches to a wristband, ...
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IDG News Service - Nvidia is usually trumpeting the graphics performance of its Tegra 4 chip, but at the Computex trade show on Tuesday CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed how its newest processor can be used to create a precise, affordable stylus ...
Intel on Tuesday showed the first smartphone based on its next Atom smartphone chip code-named Merrifield, which will provide better performance and battery life than current Atom chips. The Merrifield chip will offer 50% better ...
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Nvidia's CEO showed an updated version of the company's Shield portable gaming device at the Computex trade show Tuesday, and said it will start shipping the device later this month to customers who pre-ordered it. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang ...
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MOTOROLA's high-tech smart phones will publish Moto X to compete with Samsung and Apple. The main difference with the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S4 is the intelligent sensor. On Thursday (May 30), the subsidiary of Google, MOTOROLA director ...
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Latest report from world leading consumer panel research service provider Kantar Worldpanel said that smart phones took 42% of the Chinese market in the first quarter of 2013, climbing 1.4 percentage points quarter on quarter. Kantar ...
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Samsung Electronics announced the Galaxy S4 mini smartphone, which has a larger screen and a better camera than its predecessor, the Galaxy S III mini. The introduction of a pared down version of the Galaxy S4 is in line with Samsung's ...
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Gmail users, your inboxes are about to be rearranged. Google announced a new kind of inbox for Gmail that automatically sorts messages into categories, or "tabs." For example, updates from Google+ and other networks go into a "Social" ...
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Mobile payments startup Payleven has struck a deal that calls for Apple to start selling chip-and-PIN readers in its retail stores across Europe. Payleven's chip-and-PIN reader can be connected to an iPhone, iPad or Android device via ...
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Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its software packages and services to help developers and IT managers modernize their applications so they will better fit into today's always connected environment. Enterprise software users now ...
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Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 tablet will be powered by Intel's Clover Trail+ chip in at least one of its versions, a source told Reuters. Previous use of Intel chips in Samsung tablets had been restricted to its Microsoft ...
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MICROSOFT is trying to fix what it got wrong with its radical makeover of Windows. It's making the operating system easier to navigate and enabling users to set up the software so it starts in a more familiar format designed for personal ...
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