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The mobile web is quickly becoming less of a niche, like just a few years ago, and a very important and potentially lucrative market. Plenty of companies are interested in the space, Google is betting heavily on the mobile web, and Yahoo seems to be doing the same. The company, which has been undergoing a big restruc... |
9 March 2010
09:06 GMT |
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Google believes in the cloud, its whole business revolves around it, so it's no surprise that it constantly argues the case for web services and products. But the latest comment from a high-ranking Google exec may be a little too optimistic to sound reasonable. Google Vice-President of Global Ad Operations John ... |
4 March 2010
10:30 GMT |
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Over the past few months, Intel seems to have done quite well for itself, with its introduction of the 32nm processor, its Pine Trail platform and the enhanced video and multimedia capabilities of its latest integrated graphics. Still, it seems that not all things are going as well as the Santa Clara chip maker might... |
26 February 2010
02:39 GMT |
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Things are settling down in Haiti after the devastating earthquake that ravaged the country, but after the initial rescue efforts and emergency response, the country is now left with the prospect of years of rebuilding. Already the poorest state in the region, the cost to rebuild will be a huge burden even with inter... |
23 February 2010
09:21 GMT |
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Smartbooks have only recently started selling and they have not exactly reached a stage where they have already established themselves as a product category or a brand. Only recently have companies such as HP and Pioneer begun to market this new type of ultraportable devices, with the late introduction of such device... |
23 February 2010
06:22 GMT |
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Samsung has finally made its R430 laptop available in the United States and has given the not-so-small machine a price tag that hovers somewhere between the price of a standard notebook personal computer and that of a low-cost netbook. It seems, however, that, based on the device's size and insides, the R430 is,... |
19 February 2010
09:59 GMT |
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At the end of the Mobile World Congress 2010, held in Barcelona, Spain, GSM Association reported that over 49,000 visitors from 200 countries had attended the event, considered the most important in the mobile-communication industry. The MWC has managed to bring together over 2,800 CEOs and executives from some of th... |
19 February 2010
09:27 GMT |
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Google is an odd company; it manages to be as nimble as a startup yet has all the advantages of a huge tech corp. It has plenty of experimental projects and small teams working on innovative products but can also tap into its vast technology catalog to create new products without too much hassle. One great example of... |
18 February 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Google was present at the World Mobile Congress, the wireless industry's biggest get-together, and CEO Eric Schmidt addressed the reticent crowd of mobile specialists for the first time. The CEO was there to calm some of the worries of the mobile industry and extend an olive branch to a sector feeling increasing... |
17 February 2010
09:39 GMT |
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Facebook is at 400 million users worldwide right now and it’s not slowing down. At some point though, it's going to run out of potential users, there are 'only' about 1.7 billion people online today. Still, there are more than six billion people in total and five billion of them will have a mobil... |
16 February 2010
11:29 GMT |
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With the rapid evolution in processing, and the mobile front being no exception, next-generation mobile products keep raising the standard for computing power, connectivity and battery life. To address these growing needs, ARM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES are working together on the creation of a top-tier System-on-Chip (SoC)... |
16 February 2010
08:28 GMT |
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Apple's continuing success and Google's increasing expansion into new markets is pitting the two close allies more and more against each other. So far the hostilities have been kept to a minimum and the two sides have engaged in more of a cold war, but things are heating up, especially on the Apple side as... |
16 February 2010
05:38 GMT |
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Rambus has proudly unveiled its Mobile XDR architecture, which promises to yield mobile memory with a higher bandwidth at a lower power consumption. The technology is based on the innovations brought about by the Mobile Memory Initiative introduced last year. This architecture will supposedly enable a memory bandwidt... |
8 February 2010
08:52 GMT |
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Once again ready to tackle the mobile-computing market, Lenovo has been working on a convertible tablet device that, despite not having been officially announced, is already beginning to poke its head out of hiding. The unit is known as the ThinkPad X201T and is set to be just one in the range of mobile products that... |
8 February 2010
03:27 GMT |
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Now that the uproar and mixed feelings caused by the launch of the Apple iPad are finally beginning to settle down, the attention of end-users and the media alike is turning back to their original focus. Now that the media is more perceptive, rumors, reports, leaks and hints have again begun to sneak out, such as a s... |
2 February 2010
05:37 GMT |
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NVIDIA hasn't exactly been in the most fortunate or favorable of positions over the past few months, obviously because Advanced Micro Devices has been having the large field of DirectX 11 graphics all to itself. Still, the company seems to be ready to score in another area through its development of the Tegra 2... |
30 January 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Now that the Apple Tablet has, for better or worse, finally been launched, companies in the IT industry have something to relate to when making their own incursions into the tablet PC market. The iPad's performance will likely show just what chance of survival such devices have on today's market and its mar... |
28 January 2010
05:29 GMT |
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Tablets have generally been on the mind of many companies recently, and this goes for more than just the Apple tablet, which is, once again, rumored to be on the verge of launching. Most recently. HP released a video where it showed a small portion of its upcoming tablet's functionality. Also, quite a number of ... |
27 January 2010
06:36 GMT |
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Opera has come out with its latest State of the Mobile Web report, which it publishes monthly, reveling some, in a way, surprising results. Facebook has now become the most popular social network on the mobile web overtaking the Russian VKontakte for the first time. This is surprising in at least two ways, either bec... |
26 January 2010
11:05 GMT |
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Tablet personal computers are one of the concepts that have existed on the IT market for years. There is no disputing the fact that ultraportable, touch-enabled slate systems devoid of any need for peripherals would be a formidable presence in the industry. Tablet rumors have been going around for ages, most notable ... |
26 January 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Smartbooks are a rather recent concept on the computing market and their ability to survive in the current marketing conditions is still questionable. While the portability and connectivity capabilities of such products would be quite high, the already well-established netbooks boast largely similar capabilities. Sti... |
22 January 2010
08:39 GMT |
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One of the personal computer product concepts that has been gaining popularity is the slate PC, otherwise known as tablet personal computers. The concept is not a new one, as the age-old Apple tablet rumors obviously show, but only lately have such products actually begun to pop up. Most such devices have been held o... |
21 January 2010
10:35 GMT |
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Sony has just introduced an innovative, 13.1-inch notebook PC series that is designed as ultra-portable while packing high-end performance and a new system configuration. This new configuration enables data transfers to reach read and write speeds far greater than those of other storage solutions. The mobile systems ... |
19 January 2010
06:59 GMT |
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As the first Atom-powered mobile thin client from Wyse technology, the Wyse X90cw is designed to provide access to cloud and client virtualization environments. What is interesting about this product is the lack of hard drives, which implies that no server-side data will ever be stored on it, making it highly secure.... |
14 January 2010
04:14 GMT |
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Intel is known as the greatest central processing unit maker in the world and its chips are so widespread and common that it is widely believed that the company's x86 chips could provide a very strong competition to the ARM architecture. This idea is prominent even despite the fact that there really are no Intel... |
13 January 2010
10:29 GMT |
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Hynix has been the first to introduce not one, but several types of DDR chips, with two of the more recent ones being last year's 54nm manufacturing process-based 1Gb DDR2 chip and the world's first 40nm-based 2Gb GDDR5 chip. Eager to introduce yet another in the 'world's first' series, Hynix... |
13 January 2010
09:51 GMT |
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Market research firm iSupply predicts the global market for 32GB and higher NAND flash memory will reach about 530 million units in 2010, with 9.5 billion units set to ship by 2013 (in 16Gb equivalent units). Apparently eager to secure a portion of this market in advance, Samsung has launched two new flash memory pr... |
13 January 2010
02:50 GMT |
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Vimeo has just rolled out the broader mobile support it first announced last week. The site is making a couple of big moves one with the wider availability of 1080p videos and the second being better support for most smartphone platforms. Subscribers to Vimeo Plus can now use the mobile version of the site to conver... |
12 January 2010
06:01 GMT |
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Google sure likes giving stuff away, most of its services are free for regular users, but it's not exactly out of the goodness of its hear, the ads it serves on most of them more than make up for the losses. And Google isn't done yet, it’s always looking for ways to get more ads to people while still bei... |
8 January 2010
04:08 GMT |
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As expected, Google is firing on all cylinders promoting its first mobile phone, the Nexus One. The phone will only be sold online, so it will need all the marketing it can get and so far Google seems to be delivering. If you want proof, look no further than the Google homepage which now prominently features an ad f... |
7 January 2010
07:20 GMT |
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Apple and Google haven't exactly been seeing eye to eye lately. The two are increasingly stepping over each other's feet, mostly Google so far, and it's creating friction between the once very friendly companies. Which makes this latest post from Google, on the Public Policy blog, all the more surpris... |
6 January 2010
07:08 GMT |
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It's finally here, the worst kept secret in the tech world of late, the Google Nexus One smartphone. As with anything from Google these days, it got its fair share of hype and many were quick to claim that it would be the revolution all have been waiting for, the true iPhone killer and so on. Turns out, the pho... |
6 January 2010
04:17 GMT |
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Google makes a lot of money from advertising and the revenue it tapped into when it introduced search ads helped it become one of the most powerful tech companies in the world. Now, it's looking to do the same with mobile advertising, which it believes will be a huge market in the next few years. Mobile web use ... |
5 January 2010
11:36 GMT |
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The so-called Google Phone, which we know will be going by the Nexus One moniker, has been making headlines lately with bits of information making their way to the press one way or the other. First billed as an internal experiment by Google, the company didn't really make a convincing case and the evidence kept... |
30 December 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Completely unsurprising, Google is facing more and more resistance and scrutiny as it continues to get into new markets and increases its dominance in the ones it is already present. Very recently, Google has announced its acquisition plans of mobile advertising company AdMob for the hefty of $750 million. It would ... |
28 December 2009
11:31 GMT |
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After starting 2009 holding the second place in the market segment for mobile graphics, AMD now boasts of having overtaken NVIDIA as prime supplier of mobile graphics chips. Product manager of AMD's mobile graphics business claims that it now holds 57% of the market share after scoring the most design wins not o... |
18 December 2009
11:41 GMT |
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Google is a great proponent of web apps as alternative to native ones, be it desktop applications or mobile ones. Its point of view may be skewed by the fact that it does most of its revenue online and most of its major products are very much anchored in the cloud, but the company does a great enough job with its ow... |
18 December 2009
09:10 GMT |
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The Fermi architecture isn't the only thing that NVIDIA plans to put on display at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. The company seems to have serious plans for the mobile computing segment and apparently intends to introduce its second-generation Tegra system-on-chip products in January. The actual ... |
16 December 2009
04:12 GMT |
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The Google phone which the company denied so vehemently is very much a reality and it's coming to market early next year. Google has confirmed its existence though it claims it is only a testing device handed out to employees as a sort of mobile lab to run experimental apps and services. Everyone else though is... |
14 December 2009
05:24 GMT |
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According to a detailed research by In-Stat, single-core processors will become obsolete by 2013 even in handheld computing devices such as smartphones, CE (consumer electronics) devices and MIDs. With notebooks being, currently, the only mobile devices based on multi-core processors (with a few exceptions), multi-co... |
9 December 2009
09:06 GMT |
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Despite what its execs may be claiming lately, MySpace is still a social network and a large one at that. It has been bleeding users for the past year or so but the ones that are still around should be glad to hear that the social network has just launched a new mobile version of the site dedicated to iPhone, Android... |
4 December 2009
12:15 GMT |
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Twitter is a great service and its creators want to keep it that way. Not the 'great' part, presumably they want this as well, but the 'service' part. It always catered to third-party developers and avoided adding too much features to the basic product. This has changed slightly recently, but Twi... |
4 December 2009
07:11 GMT |
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The GSM Association, representing the interests of the worldwide mobile communication industry, has announced the Mobile Innovation Grand Prix – Americas Tournament winners for the ongoing year. The Americas part of the competition has been organized in collaboration with Rutberg & Company, and it has been show... |
2 December 2009
09:30 GMT |
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Lenovo group divested Lenovo Mobile Communication Technology Ltd. back in 2008, when the Group chose to refocus on the Personal Computer business segment. Now, however, after mobile computing solutions saw a massive popularity surge (including everything from notebooks and netbooks to smartphones and tablet PCs), Len... |
27 November 2009
09:24 GMT |
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Mobile voice services and Short Messaging Services (SMSs) seem to be on an ascending trend nowadays, as SMSs are expected to reach a number of 1.9 trillion this year in Asia/Pacific and Japan. According to a recent report from Gartner Inc., there has been a 15.5-percent increase in SMSs since 2008 and the volume of m... |
26 November 2009
08:49 GMT |
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Twitter may be slowing down in the US, but it's showing no signs of stopping elsewhere. One feature, which seems to drive growth as much as anything else, is its mobility. Since its inception, users have been able to send tweets via SMS, but Twitter is now taking it to the next level with the announcement of a ... |
17 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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Any one person must have at least one horrible memory of a five-hour flight or drive during which there was nothing to do but stare at the walls or the road. It seems that the gentlemen and gentlewomen at Viewsonic either know about such things or experienced them on their own enough to come up with a device meant to... |
11 November 2009
09:27 GMT |
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Location-based services are becoming increasingly popular as more mobile devices get GPS features and people are less concerned about their privacy. There are a couple of hot startups, like Foursquares, catering to this space, but Google has now updated its own similar service Latitude with a couple of new features,... |
11 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Real-time search is heading to its rightful home, mobile phones, with a new partnership between mobile search engine Taptu and real-time search engine OneRiot. The idea is to bring a real-time experience to mobile phones in a way that takes advantage of their capabilities and solves their shortcomings. The new Taptu ... |
10 November 2009
11:46 GMT |
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Twitter has always greatly focused on the third-party environment. The website itself gets its fair share of attention, but the company has always envisioned itself as just a service provider and, as such, has made sure that all manners of third-party apps and devices are being catered to with the APIs and access to ... |
3 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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