Computerworld - Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) turned things around in 2012, posting an annual usage share gain for the first time in the last eight years, according to data published earlier this week by a Web analytics company. Net ...
The latest versions of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 4.1 and 4.2 (Jelly Bean) are running on more than 10 percent of Android devices, chipping away at the Gingerbread version’s dominant share, according to Google. ...
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IDG News Service - A famed iPhone hacker has developed a fresh way to jailbreak Apple's iOS 6 operating system in order to install unauthorized apps, but he says he won't release it. David Wang wrote on Reddit that he discovered several ...
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IDG News Service - The patent injunction portion of Google's antitrust settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week won't mean an end to patent disputes between Google and mobile device makers, but it does take away one major ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft's Windows 8 Pro upgrade discount will expire in about three weeks, at which point the company will triple or even quintuple the current price of the new operating system, according to several online retailers. On ...
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Day one of the Consumer Entertainment Show(CES)2013 in Las Vegas has seen a couple of reveals to potentially bend the rules of the existing mobile technology market. First up was the unveiling of Nvidia's Tegra 4 mobile chip,which the ...
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Smartphone shipments will pass the one billion mark in a single calender year for the first time in 2013,while the number in use could reach two billion,suggests research by Deloitte analysts. The study,which defines smartphone as a ...
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With less than a week to go before this year's International CES Show in Las Vegas commences, it's unclear which new products will generate the most buzz among attendees of the massive trade show. However, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung plans to launch its first cell phones this year based on Tizen,a Linux-based operating system that will principally rival Google's Android OS. Tizen is being developed by Samsung and Intel in part to reduce their ...
Targeting NAS market Lenovo and EMC announced they have completed the formation of LenovoEMC Ltd, the joint venture previously announced in August 2012 along with a wider strategic partnership in industry standard servers and networked ...
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Final online usage numbers for 2012 released Tuesday confirmed that Windows 8 failed to match Windows Vista's uptake pace during its first two months. Preliminary numbers from Net Applications last week indicated that Windows 8 would end ...
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Japan's biggest cellular network operator, NTT DoCoMo, is working with Intel and Samsung on development of the Tizen operating system and the first smartphone based on the platform could be out in Japan in 2013, according to a Japanese ...
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A month ahead of the launch of Research In Motion's BlackBerry 10 operating system, a couple of handsets running the OS have appeared in a U.S. radio regulatory database. There's not much about the phones that can be gathered from the ...
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With just a week left in the month, Windows 8's usage uptake has slipped behind Vista's at the same point in its release, data from a Web measurement company showed. According to Net Applications, Windows 8's online usage share through ...
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Cyber extortionists shilling "ransomware" have upped the ante by pushing users' panic buttons with claims that their malware will wipe hard drives, a security firm said Monday. The claim is bogus, said Symantec, and is simply a ploy by ...
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