Apple has capped a summer of speculation with the launch of two new iPhones - an iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5. But with most of the pre-launch rumours proving to be true, the two main surprises were the inclusion of a 64-bit microprocessor ...
Xiaomi paraded its new international figurehead on stage at a press conference late last week in Beijing, signaling to the world that the company is preparing to go global. Hugo Barra, the former Google executive Xiaomi poached last ...
Tags: Xiaomi, Homegrown Strategy
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has joined with Niantic Labs at Google as a premier audio content partner to launch a new version of the Field Trip smartphone app. The app is available for iPhone and Android users and it runs in ...
Tags: Mobile Landmark APP, APP, Lights, Lighting
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has acquired the power to tap 3G and 4G smartphones - not only Apple iPhones and Android devices, but also supposedly secure BlackBerrys. The revelation is the latest in a series of leaks orchestrated ...
Tags: Apple Iphones, Android, Even Blackberry, Smartphones
The National Security Agency (NSA) has tapped into the networks of Google, Brazilian oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, and systems operated by France's foreign ministry, according to leaked US documents. The documents were aired by ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia was a defensive move to keep the Finnish phone maker from going under or falling into the hands of an Android-first rival, several analysts argued this week. “Had Nokia abandoned Windows Phone, ...
Tags: Nokia Deal, Microsoft
This year’s IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin offered smartphones, tablets, 4K TVs, a much-anticipated smartwatch and new spins on the camera. Consumer electronics manufacturers from all over the world headed to the annual ...
Tags: TVs, Smartphones, IFA
Intel’s dominance of the chip market is starting to wane as PC shipments slump and smartphone and tablet adoption grows, but the manufacturer will try to prove it can make fast and power-efficient processors for mobile devices at its ...
Tags: Mobile Devices, Tablet Devices
Google's Android will command 90 per cent of the smartphone operating system market in the next five to 10 years, according to Jon ‘Maddog' Hall, the executive director of Linux International, a non-profit organisation of IT ...
Tags: Android, Smartphone Market
Tablet applications have the potential to so engage school kids that the time it takes to teach a subject could be cut from four years to six months. That's what Nolan Bushnell, the "father of modern video gaming", founder of Atari and ...
Tags: Tablet Software
Microsoft's acquisition of Finnish firm Nokia's mobile phone business and patents is a bad piece of business, according to Jon "Maddog" Hall, the executive director of Linux International, a non-profit organisation of IT professionals that ...
With its $7.2 billion agreement to buy Nokia’s handset business, Microsoft is in a position to surpass Apple and Android smartphone makers in providing an enterprise-class mobile platform, experts say. However, whether Microsoft is ...
Tags: Nokia, Mobile Enterprise
Qualcomm on Wednesday announced its own smartwatch that will have a low-power Mirasol display and be compatible with Android mobile devices. The smartwatch, called Toq (pronounced “talk”), will ship in the fourth quarter this ...
Tags: Qualcomm, Mirasol Display
China’s Xiaomi is bringing the low-price strategy that has driven its success in mobile phones to the country’s smart TV arena with a new 47-inch television that it says is the most affordable on the market. The Xiaomi TV runs ...
Tags: Smart TV, Smartphone
Nestlé has teamed up with Google to help launch the latest version of the search engine's Android mobile operating system, which Google has named after the KitKat chocolate bar. Nestlé will be launching more than 50m ...