It's been eons in coming, but pre-ordered BlackBerry Z10's will start being delivered in Australian from Monday. More than four years has elapsed since BlackBerry brought out its first touchscreen model, the Storm, in late 2008. It also ...
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Apple quietly updated Safari on Snow Leopard last week, refreshing the browser to v. 5.1.8 and providing more proof that it intends to support OS X 10.6 much longer than usual. Computerworld - Apple last week silently updated the aged ...
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Fewer than 10 per cent of UK enterprise users are basing decisions to refresh their technology estates on a Windows 8 migration, a Computing survey has revealed. Respondents were asked for the main drivers behind their decisions to ...
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Android head Andy Rubin is stepping aside, and that could mean big changes for Google's mobile platform and for its Chrome operating system. Google CEO Larry Page announced the move in a blog post on Wednesday, saying Rubin will remain ...
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Microsoft's two-pronged OS push into tablets -- Windows RT and Windows 8 -- confuses customers, and the company should focus on the more robust Windows 8, an IDC analyst said today. Tom Mainelli, IDC's research director for tablets, said ...
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BlackBerry has received an order for one million Z10 smartphones, the largest single order in the company's history, significantly boosting shares in the firm which described the deal as a "tremendous vote of confidence." The ...
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Andy Rubin, the head of Android at Google - officially, senior vice president of mobile and digital content - is stepping down to be replaced by Sundar Pichai, who currently runs the company's Chrome web browser and Apps division. Rubin ...
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Clicking "install app" on a mobile device does not amount to personal data consent, according to EU privacy watchdog, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party. Much of this data is processed to provide a revenue stream, which the ...
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A new Sophos survey has found that the average technology user carries 2.9 devices. The vendor’s Naked Security site conducted a survey of more than 2,200 users worldwide, asking readers how many devices they carry, and which ...
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BlackBerry last week announced technology designed to securely separate work and personal data on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as its Balance software does for new BlackBerry 10 devices. The new Secure Work Space for iOS and ...
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Samsung Electronics is readying a smartphone based on the Tizen operating system to be released in the second half of this year, it said Friday. It has already found a customer: NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier, plans to launch ...
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Google has continued its restructuring plans, with maps chief Jeff Huber following the head of Android, Andy Rubin, out of Google and reportedly into the firm's laboratory project Google X. Huber, who has run Google's Mapping and Commerce ...
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Apple yesterday updated OS X Mountain Lion for the first time in six months, patching 14 security vulnerabilities and addressing a host of other issues. Alongside the operating system update, Apple also upgraded the Safari browser to ...
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IDC released a report yesterday, increased its forecast on 2013 global tablet shipments growth rate by 10.7%, and expected that Android operating system would surpass iOS to become the dominant tablet operating systems. IDC forecasts that ...
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Are we getting lazy - lazy enough to spur an entire industry dedicated to eliminating cables for transferring photos from cameras to our desktops? The work involved in plugging in a USB cable to a camera port, and the other end into a PC, ...
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