Sales of devices based on Apple's Mac OS and iOS will overtake those of products running all flavors of Windows in 2015, a Gartner analyst predicted Monday. The switch in leadership would come roughly 13 years after Steve Jobs reinvented ...
Microsoft today must deliver on expectations that have been mounting since the sluggish start of Windows 8 eight months ago, analysts said. "This is an important turning point; this is about keeping the energy in Windows 8 and keeping ...
Spanish operator Telefonica is worried about the Android-iOS smartphone duopoly, and has joined with Microsoft in a marketing blitz that it hopes will convince consumers to pick up smartphones based on Windows Phone. For one year, ...
Tags: Telefonica, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, Smartphone
Sprint announced Wednesday it will soon sell two Windows Phone 8 smartphones that run over fast LTE, the HTC 8XT and the Samsung ATIV S Neo. The HTC 8XT smartphone will be available from Sprint later this summer. (Photo: HTC) The 8XT ...
Tags: Sprint, Windows Phone 8 Smartphones, HTC
Developers find Firefox OS the most compelling among new smartphone OSes, generating more interest than Tizen and BlackBerry 10, even though no commercial products have been launched for it yet. For the first time, IDC and cross-platform ...
Tags: Developers, Firefox OS, Smartphone
Chevrolet, a subsidiary of the US based automobile manufacturer General Motors, has launched its new Sonic 1.6 E85, the revamped model of the Sonic car in Thailand. The vehicle is powered by the four-cylinder 1.6L double overhead ...
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) is set to abandon issuing staff with BlackBerry smartphones as the council looks to move towards a Windows 8-based ecosystem. It forms part of RBWM's overall strategy of moving towards a ...
Tags: Blackberry, Windows 8 Phones, RBWM Council
For EasyJet, tablets running on Windows 8 - such as Microsoft Surface Pro - would be preferable to Apple's iPad because they're more compatible with the rest of the office ecosystem. That's according to CIO Trevor Didcock who made the ...
Tags: Windows 8 Tablet, iPad, EasyJet
Over one thousand fans enjoyed the 2013 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in a way they never experienced before, as ChirpVision delivered three channels of live video of music performances with HD audio directly to the fans' smartphones in ...
eRecyclingCorps (eRC), the world's leading provider of carrier-grade wireless device trade-in and reuse, today announced that it completed more than 1.1 million secure wireless device trade-ins in May 2013, setting a new industry record for ...
Tags: eRecyclingCorps, Wireless Device, Consumer Electronics
The new MicroSideled 3806 LEDs are rated for 15,000 hours of life and come in a phosphor-converted white version and in a blue LED designed for the emerging portable displays that use quantum dots to produce vivid colors. Osram Opto ...
Mobile Aspects, US-based RFID solutions provider, has been granted patent for its iRIScope cabinet, which uses RFID-enabled technology to control the spread of infection through flexible endoscopes. It also tracks and timestamps an ...
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Chip maker Qualcomm is introducing six new processors meant for entry-level phones in China and emerging markets. The processors are part of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 200 class, a chip line that offers support for lower-end specs compared to ...
Tags: Qualcomm, Snapdragon Chips, China
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group is putting yet more effort behind Mozilla's Firefox OS, and plans to hire up to 3,000 people in Taiwan with expertise in HTML5 and cloud computing. On Thursday, Foxconn said it was looking ...
Tags: Foxconn, Firefox OS, Mozilla
Samsung on Thursday announced nine new products, including smartphones, tablets and a smart camera, but the biggest breakthrough product was a 13.3-in. convertible tablet called the ATIV Q that runs both Android Jelly Bean and Windows 8. ...