Most stores were closed but Americans still managed to shop on Christmas Day—increasingly on their smartphones. An IBM survey showed Christmas Day online sales were up 16.5 percent over last year, with a strong boost from ...
Tags: Christmas Day, smartphones, Christmas Day online sales, mobile traffic
Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has quantified just how bad business is at the moment, as users abandon its once-dominant platform. The company said it plans to record a GAAP net operating loss during the July to September quarter ...
Tags: Blackberry, smartphone, Consumer Electronics
THE highly anticipated crowd-funded Ouya Android videogame console yesterday hit the market in the US and almost instantly sold out. Ouya is a gaming console project on crowd-funding site Kickstarter that raised $US8.5 million and ...
Samsung has had its security-enhanced smartphones and tablets approved for use by the U.S. military. The U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) says it is now happy to use Samsung Android devices in the field after its Defence Information ...
Tags: Samsung, Smartphones
Global sales of tablet computers surged in the first quarter of 2013, led by Android-powered devices that outpaced gains by Apple's iPads, a research firm says. IDC said the worldwide tablet market saw sizzling growth of 142.4 per cent ...
Tags: Android, Global Tablet, Apple iPad Gains
Dropbox today announced a new synchronization API for iOS and Android-powered devices that it said will offer developers a new code library to help them better focus on creating mobile apps. The new API is available today on Dropbox's ...
Tags: Dropbox, API, iOS, Android-powered devices
The crowd-funded Ouya videogame console seeking to shake up a market dominated by Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo is gearing up for a US debut in June. The team behind Ouya has begun taking online pre-orders for the Android-powered devices ...
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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Google has unveiled its first branded tablet – the Google Nexus 7. The device will run on the latest edition of the company's mobile operating system, Android 4.1 – codenamed Jelly Bean – measure just 7in and feature a ...
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