Microsoft took off the gloves and took a big swing at Facebook today, calling the social network's new Home launcher an old idea. Facebook Thursday unveiled Home, a home screen, along with family of apps all for Android smartphones. ...
The land rush for mobile patents is so feverish that about one-quarter of all patents issued in the U.S. this year will be mobile-related, according to a study released on Wednesday. "It just shows, given the number of filings, how ...
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China signaled it wants to reduce its dependence on Google's Android OS, alleging that the U.S. company has discriminated against local companies over the use of the mobile operating system. "Our country's mobile operating system research ...
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The idea that the technology behind search is a done deal is far from the truth, according to Google, as the company appears to still have plenty of tricks up its sleeve to improve it. "Everybody's mindset is that search is a solved ...
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Analysts today were skeptical that Mozilla's push into mobile with Firefox OS would meaningfully change the game. "The chances of Mozilla Firefox OS making good in mobile phones are about as good as WebOS making a comeback in ...
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Telecom carriers continue to complain about taxes, regulation and over-the-top competition, but Mozilla's Firefox operating system provides a glimmer of hope to some executives speaking at the opening of Mobile World Congress. Mobile ...
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Smartphones running on a mobile version the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system could arrive as early October this year, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Linux OS vendor Canonical, told the ...
Smartphones running Mozilla Firefox and Jolla Sailfish will launch separately in 2013 amid a crowded smartphone market. Their impact will be small but important initially, as the smartphone community seeks alternatives to the frontrunner ...
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The Samsung Galaxy EK-GC100 camera, the first camera with 3G/4G connectivity, isn't the first wireless camera to run on the Android mobile OS—that honor goes to the Nikon Coolpix S800c, which connects via Wi-Fi, not 3G or 4G. But the ...
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Google announced a new version of Android this week with some impressive new features, but it's unclear if it's done enough to solve a problem that has dogged its mobile OS: fragmentation. Even as it announced the imminent launch of ...
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Further expanding from its core mission of providing Linux distributions for desktop computers and servers, Canonical is developing a version of Ubuntu for smartphones. The company plans to market the OS to smartphone handset ...
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On June 28,Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins announced the company's latest financials in a particularly grim earnings call.Heins reported a first-quarter loss of$518 million,or 99 cents a share.Overall sales for the period were$2.8 ...
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Tizen 2.0, the open-source smartphone operating system, is now available as an alpha release with an accompanying software development kit (SDK), the Tizen project announced on Tuesday. The release lends credence to rumors that project ...
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IDG News Service - A court-appointed damages expert who served in the intellectual-property suit Oracle lodged against Google over the Android mobile OS could receive nearly $2 million in compensation, according to court filings late ...
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Breaking into the smartphone market with a new platform may seem to be a tall order, but Finnish company Jolla think it can be done and has demonstrated the user interface of its upcoming operating system Sailfish. Jolla, which means ...
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