Free smartphone apps pose huge threats to user privacy by collecting unnecessary information,says a report from Juniper Networks. The network security firm analysed 1.7 million applications on the Android market over an 18-month period ...
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Android-operated devices now represent three-quarters of the smartphone market, according to third quarter figures, far ahead of the iPhone in second place with 15 per cent. BlackBerry is a distant third, according to the research by ...
Tags: Smartphones, Android, group IDC
Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 8,its latest operating system(OS)for smartphones. Microsoft intends Windows Phone 8 to take market share away from the likes of Apple and Google's Android,which currently dominate the smartphone ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touts the personalization features of Windows Phone 8 in a new 46-second ad. The ad,now accessible on YouTube,was first shown at the formal launch of Windows Phone 8 on Monday,where Ballmer appeared onstage ...
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Samsung has almost doubled its profits in its third quarter of 2012,thanking the performance of its smartphone division for the significant rise. Net profit for the three-month period hit KRW6.56tn(GBP3.7bn),which represented a ...
Tags: Samsung, smartphone sales, Net profit, KRW26.25tn, Nokia
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman took to the stage at Gartner's Symposium/ITexpo here Wednesday looking to convince customers that HP is on solid footing. She emphasized the tech pioneer's commitment to research and development, security ...
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The iPhone 5 is producing a higher volume of web traffic than the Samsung Galaxy S III,after less than three weeks on the market. That's according to research by Chitika Insights which monitored web impressions of the two devices and ...
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IDG News Service - HTC has upgraded its flagship smartphone, the One X, with a faster quad-core processor, twice the integrated storage capacity, a bigger battery and LTE in the U.S. The HTC One X+ smartphone. The new model is ...
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Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the BlackBerry smartphone, has posted another quarterly loss. While it represents another blow to the struggling mobile device producer, the net loss of $235m for the second quarter isn't as ...
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Research In Motion's stock price jumped more than 6%Wednesday after CEO Thorsten Heins addressed developers and said,among other things,that BlackBerry subscriptions had climbed to 80 million,up from 78 million in the second quarter. ...
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Some BlackBerry users are experiencing total service outage according to warnings issued by service provider Vodafone this morning. A RIM statement on Facebook reads, "We are currently experiencing a BlackBerry service issue impacting ...
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Taipei,Sept.13,2012(CENS)--Global shipments of smartphones are likely to nearly double by 2016 from 2012's projected 567 million systems thanks to more rollouts of exciting products as iPhone5,according to market research organization NPD ...
IDG News Service-Intel has ported Google's Android 4.1 OS,called Jelly Bean,to work on smartphones based on the low-power Atom chips code-named Medfield. "I'm running it,"said Mike Bell,Intel's vice president and general manager of the ...
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Computerworld - China will overtake the U.S. as the global leader in smartphone shipments this year, according to IDC. China will receive 26.5% of all smartphone shipments for 2012, compared to 17.8% for the U.S. In 2011, the U.S. had ...
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After Saturday's verdict by a US court that found Samsung guilty of violating Apple's iPhone patents,Apple has initiated proceedings that could see the South Korean firm almost disappear from the US smartphone market. Apple has filed a ...
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