Microsoft and Amazon will launch own-brand smartphones mid-2013, including a Windows Phone 8 Surface. iPhone maker Foxconn has apparently received orders from Microsoft and Amazon to build smartphones. According to Digitimes, the handsets ...
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The first wave of devices running BlackBerry 10, Research In Motion’s new smartphone operating system, have entered carrier certification labs around the world, the company has announced. The lab entry allows cellular carriers to ...
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Google+ page has strongly suggested Google will reveal multiple Nexus smartphones on 29 October. The message on Google+ states that the current device, the Galaxy Nexus, will soon meet its ‘younger brother(s)’. Google is ...
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In third-quarter 2012,global mobile phone market shipments were 444.5 million mobile phones,up 2.4%on 434.1 million units in Q3/2011,according to the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker of market research firm International Data ...
Google has revealed that it has no plans to develop dedicated apps for Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 for its business app products such as Gmail or Drive. Further reading All-in-one Windows 8 PCs selling 'well above forecasts' - Dell UI ...
Steven Sinofsky,the Microsoft executive in charge of the development of Windows 8 and widely regarded as the future successor to CEO Steve Ballmer,has resigned from the company.He was also responsible for leading the development of Windows ...
Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) has launched a new mobile web application called GEICO Mobile Cycle to help customers purchase a policy from their smartphones. By using GEICO Mobile Cycle, the riders can now obtain an ATV ...
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IDG News Service-Nokia said its new Lumia 620 handset is its most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphone yet,priced$249 when bought without a contract. In addition to the Lumia 620,Nokia also announced its first Windows Phone handset for ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft's next OS update for Windows Phone 7 handsets won't be available until sometime in 2013. The news,posted on a Microsoft blog Wednesday,led to a stream of frustrated comments from Windows Phone users,complaining ...
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Early uptake of Windows 8 appears to be lagging behind that of Windows 7 in the period after the older OS's launch back in 2009. A survey of online activity carried out by marketing intelligence firm NetApplications found that just one ...
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Apple iPhones and Android smartphones will replace BlackBerry as the top smartphones used by workers around the world in 2012,IDC said in an updated forecast. The IDC report on enterprise use of smartphones notes that businesses are ...
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Nokia continues to expand its line-up of advanced feature phones with the Asha 205,with a dedicated Facebook button allowing users to more easily access the social networking site. While Nokia is trying to revive its fortunes in the ...
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Jolla,the mobile operating system start-up founded by Nokia refugees,has finally unveiled Sailfish,the smartphone operating system based on Linux. The company had been in"stealth mode"for almost a year before it launched in the summer,and ...
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Microsoft's new mobile operating systems have been affected by a series of glitches that has had users complaining online – and some returning their devices to retailers and mobile telecoms companies for a refund. The most serious ...
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Navigation technology provider TomTom today announced developer tools and a platform for location-based services(LBS)in the cloud to help in the rapid creation of apps for finding locations that are used by truck fleets and other ...
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