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Trevor Eckhart, a researcher that not long ago publicly announced that a company called Carrier IQ installed tracking software in most smartphone, now came forward with a video that actually proves his findings.
The video shows that Carrier IQ tracks every key stroke, including passwords, text message contents, web ... |
1 December 2011
08:05 GMT |
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In a move that could very well be interpreted as exchanging one problem for another, Advanced Micro Devices has decided to stop focusing so much on the PC business and get its act closer together on the mobile front. The Bulldozer disaster, as it is known in some circles, must have persuaded AMD's leadership t... |
29 November 2011
03:22 GMT |
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Lie Jun, a man who is planning on selling a new handset that rivals the iPhone in both specs and price, has admitted in an interview with Entrepreneur that he and others like him were eagerly waiting for Steve Jobs to die.As 99.99 percent of the world’s population were mourning the passing of Steve Jobs last mo... |
24 November 2011
04:56 GMT |
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When it comes to being the slimmest Android smartphone in the world, Fujitsu’s ARROWS μ F-07D handset claims the top spot, leaving Motorola's RAZR behind a little.
The handset, which can be seen in the photo attached to this article, has managed to receive the necessary approvals from the FCC and reve... |
22 November 2011
12:51 GMT |
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The Universal Serial Bus 3.0 SuperSpeed interface is about to gain a new role, one that will be different from enabling communications between storage units and host products. Not too different, though, since intercommunication is still what it will accomplish, only between the processors of a single device. USB-IF... |
20 November 2011
05:52 GMT |
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Last month, Internet giant Google announced the release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a new mobile OS that will soon be running on handsets, tablet PCs and other devices.
The new platform release is now available on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone that hit shelves in Europe only yesterday, but should beco... |
18 November 2011
12:31 GMT |
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A report from analysis form Cowen and Company has shown that only 37 percent of gamers are playing on a dedicated handheld device while a majority of 52% were using a mobile phone to get their gaming fix.The report says, “Over the last five years, the penetration of dedicated handheld platforms into survey resp... |
18 November 2011
07:47 GMT |
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Microsoft seems very confident on the perspectives its Windows operating system has to offer, and claims that it will be able to bring the platform to new areas as soon as Windows 8 becomes available.
During a company's shareholders' meeting yesterday, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, confirmed that Windows... |
16 November 2011
05:06 GMT |
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Next year's Mobile World Congress has been long rumored to be the place where the first smartphones to pack quad-core application processors would debut, and it seems that things have been confirmed on the matter once again.
Nothing is officially announced on this for the time being, but next year Taiwanese m... |
14 November 2011
08:51 GMT |
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The whole bash fest between Apple and Samsung was bound to eventually step on some toes and, as it happens, Samsung ended up raising a big enough red flag that the European Commission decided to get involved. One of the latest claims that Samsung made against Apple is that the latter is infringing 3G patents. This... |
4 November 2011
08:00 GMT |
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Android is the most popular smartphone OS to go around in The States, but it’s still Apple that commands the overall smartphone market from a hardware standpoint, according to a Nielsen report.In a recent research note looking at the trends surrounding smartphone use in America, global leader in measurement and... |
3 November 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Dialing 911 when you have an emergency seems like a simple enough thing to do, but in case of troubles you often find yourself not having the opportunity to go for the phone, so an avid runner by the name of Rachel Owens came up with an interesting new concept, called the MyRingGuard.This contraption is basically a r... |
1 November 2011
06:39 GMT |
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Windows 8 was already made official and is expected to become available sometime next year on desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones. At least one mobile phone will be powered by the upcoming OS iteration, namely the ITG xpPhone 2 that can be seen in the photos attached to this article.
This is not the first m... |
31 October 2011
08:32 GMT |
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Smartphones are much more powerful than we give them credit, so in order to prove this fact two engineers have joined their efforts to develop Romo, a smartphone-powered robot.Romo is basically a platform that was designed to support your iPhone, iPod Touch, or any other Android smartphone, allowing your phone to roa... |
11 October 2011
15:11 GMT |
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HP's decisions during the past few months weren't looked upon with enthusiasm by most of the IT industry, though at least one of them might be reverted, this week even.
The maneuvers that HP chose to make recently have been interpreted in many ways by those involved and onlookers alike.
For the most... |
11 October 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Analysts have already said that tablets would transform the PC market, but IHL Group now says that, coupled with smartphones, such devices will have a similar, if not more acute, effect on the retailer-consumer relationship.
Right now, POS (point-of-sale) installations and pretty much ever retailer installation ... |
6 October 2011
10:34 GMT |
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A study found that all the new inventions on the IT industry have caused users to change the way they spend their time, to the point where brands might lose customers if they don't keep track of this process.
The past few years saw the IT industry going through a serious shift in perspective, even if it isn&... |
3 October 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Earphones don't usually perform anything beyond their prime directive to deliver sound straight to users' ears, but the Jays a-Jays One+ set is one of the exceptions.
For some reason or another, probably to do with school and university courses starting again, quite a few mobile devices have made their ... |
30 September 2011
07:29 GMT |
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Those who thought Samsung was the only one with a new hands free headset out in the open can be certain they were mistaken, as Plantronics also prepared one, dubbed marque M155. Smartphones have been getting more and more feature-packed lately, but even with new hardware and apps there are things they can't do... |
29 September 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Samsung released a whole bunch of products for the mobile market not long ago, one of which was a new, small memory module of the LPDDR3 variety, which has a capacity of 4 Gb.
Samsung describes its 4 Gb LPDDR3 DRAM as “the industry’s first” monolithic LPDDR3 (low power double-data-rate 3) memory... |
29 September 2011
04:02 GMT |
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InMobi, an independent mobile advertising network, anticipates the North American mobile ad market to experience a significant increase in media consumption based on a study according to which 41% of mobile users plan to buy Apple’s iPhone 5.41% of current mobile users in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada are planni... |
28 September 2011
14:41 GMT |
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The Atom line of CPUs from Intel is poised to welcome a new member early next year, although this won't exactly be its major step on the smartphone front, despite its repeated statements that it was working on something of the sort.
Intel may not take pains towards leaking information on its products ahead o... |
13 September 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Right now, the majority of Internet devices are still in the realms of cables, but this situation is expected to change during the course of the next several years.
That the IT industry is steadily transitioning to a so-called mobile and wireless age is no longer any real mystery.
In the meantime, PCs and all o... |
12 September 2011
09:27 GMT |
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A new mobile phone running under Google's Android operating system has been pushed out of Sony Ericsson's labs today, the Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman.
The latest addition to Sony Ericsson's family of Android devices comes with all of the features and capabilities that other devices include, an... |
22 August 2011
05:27 GMT |
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Microsoft has been working on its ARM-supporting Windows version and, since tests are already being carried out, companies, in this case Dell, have started to come forth and say their piece.When the ARM architecture showed that it was going to be a strong presence on the tablet market, Microsoft took the decision to... |
19 August 2011
05:20 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is expected to bring to the market sometime during the remainder of this year a smartphone that would boast a touchscreen display larger than any before, at 5.3-inch.For the time being, nothing was officially confirmed on the matter, but some of the latest rumors on this sugges... |
18 August 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Apple may not have been in the lead before, but it looks like the smartphone market saw some leadership changes as far as market share is concerned, one of the major ones being Nokia's fall from first to third place.
Nokia may have held the top position as smartphone maker up to the first quarter of this yea... |
6 August 2011
03:44 GMT |
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Apple has become the number one smartphone vendor in Q2 2011 according to figures dished out by Strategy Analytics, a global, independent research and consulting firm.The latest research from the analytics company headquartered in Boston, USA reveals that the second quarter of 2011 has seen global smartphone shipment... |
29 July 2011
03:54 GMT |
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Indeed, that is Windows 7 loaded on Fujitsu F-07C, and not the Windows Phone 7 platform that Microsoft launched last year for mobile devices.
The smartphone is expected to arrive on the market in Japan on the airwaves of NTT DOCOMO, and is rumored to be slated for launch no later than tomorrow.
The smartphon... |
22 July 2011
09:16 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility is expected to bring to the market during the ongoing year a new set of handsets based on the Android platform, one of which might sport the name of Dinara, if some of the latest reports around the Internet are to be believed.
For the time being, only a few details on what thi... |
20 July 2011
02:23 GMT |
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts has been interested in developing experiences for smartphones lately, but it seems that the company is no longer too optimistic when it comes to selling its titles through the Apple-powered store for the iOS devices.
Richard Hilleman, who is the chief creative director working ... |
18 July 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Screens of mobile phones are becoming larger and larger, and the latest rumors on the matter suggest that we might see the first handsets to sport a screen of over 5-inches being launched on the market in the very near future.
Apparently, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics might be the company ... |
18 July 2011
03:23 GMT |
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SiliconBlue Technologies has just announced that it has begun sampling its next generation of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) that are built using TSMC's 40nm fabrication processors and are destined to be used inside smartphone and tablet devices.
The iCE40 family of mobile FPGAs, codenamed "Los Angele... |
12 July 2011
05:24 GMT |
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Liquid crystal displays may be the most widespread panels at the moment, but there are areas where other technologies are present, even prominent, at least one of which is poised to see some growth.One thing that determines what a certain display technology is good for is the form factor of the intended application.... |
5 July 2011
10:58 GMT |
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Amidst all announcements and rumors surrounding mobile devices, Elpida came forth to announce its newest mobile memory, one that it proudly says is the slimmest to ever be made.The market for mobile devices is one that pretty much every analyst believes will grow at a brisk pace over the next years. Of co... |
22 June 2011
09:35 GMT |
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Blogger has announced that the mobile templates it introduced late last year to Blogger in Draft are finally available to everyone. There are also 27 templates to choose from now, to make your blog a lot more readable on a mobile device. Even if you're not using a template, you can still enable support for smart... |
9 June 2011
08:31 GMT |
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A new type of convergent mobile devices debuted today with the launch of Asus' new Padfone, a hybrid mobile machine that brings the world of smartphones and tablet PC a step closer. The new mobile device was launched in an attempt to offer users the possibility to enjoy more features on their handsets while on ... |
30 May 2011
06:31 GMT |
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It looks like yet another report has emerged in support of the rumors going about the web, as to how the smartphone and tablet market segments aren't doing as well as they could in terms of component supply.Even though a bunch of tablets (not counting the iPad) have been officially announced already, a fairly l... |
12 May 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Acer's former CEO was ousted quite suddenly earlier this year, and with him having stepped up to talk about the circumstances, the company was fairly quick to respond, at least according to a report.Much like Advanced Micro Devices, Acer found itself without a Chief Executive Officer earlier this year, because ... |
11 May 2011
05:39 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility is reportedly gearing up for the release of new, highly appealing devices, being ready to once more conquer the mobile market.Among the handsets that would help the company do so, we can count quad-core-packing smartphones, which should make an official appearance sometime toward... |
26 April 2011
05:27 GMT |
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With low power consumption gaining in importance quickly, it make sense that researchers would try to come up with better solutions for every mobile device out there, and Sharp seems to have come up with something for the mobile market.The main reason Intel has not been able to ever really challenge ARM on the mobil... |
21 April 2011
08:55 GMT |
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A new study suggests that social gamers might be significantly more social than non-gamers, with company MocoSpace quoting a study of its own users to reach the conclusion.The company says that it has obtained data from more than 10,000 anonymous users on its official smartphone-based social-networking platform durin... |
19 April 2011
09:37 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is expected to come to the market with its first handset powered by a 2GHz application processor sometime next year, the latest reports on the matter suggest.Following the release of 1Ghz phones, and of new devices that pack dual-core 1.2GHz processors, the company is reported... |
18 April 2011
06:13 GMT |
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Acer may be doing its best, like everyone else, to perform well on the tablet market, but it also seems to have some concerns regarding certain difficulties that this segment will probably experience this year.One thing about the tablet market is that it has grown very fast ever since the first iPad came out of Appl... |
7 April 2011
05:29 GMT |
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It seems that the occurrences involving flames and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590 dual-chip card aren't the only thing causing controversy about the company right now, as reports say that investors have extra reasons to be skeptical.Some may have heard of how certain tests got landed with exploding NVIDIA GeForc... |
1 April 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Researchers from cyber intelligence firm Cyveillance report that rogue online pharmacy owners are adapting their websites to look better on mobile phones in an attempt to reach this increasingly active market.Running rogue online pharmacies and selling drugs without prescription remains one of the most lucrative cybe... |
8 March 2011
08:47 GMT |
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Satoru Iwata, who is the president of Nintendo was present at the Game Developers Conference and said that the rise of social powered games experiences and of titles based on smartphones is challenging the very nature of video gaming and threatens the entire industry.
Iwata has said, “I feel our business is ... |
3 March 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Since the Mobile World Congress has kicked off companies from around the world are, as one would expect, making announcement after announcement, one of which has Kobo and Samsung tightening their collaboration. As users may or may not know, Kobo is what can be called a pure-play global eReading service. The compan... |
14 February 2011
03:01 GMT |
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One may not have believed it really last year, but the tablet market has definitely started off well, only it appears that there is a serious amount of uncertainty brewing about just how slates will be sold to customers.Tablets have already set themselves up as a rapidly growing market, to the point where they have ... |
4 February 2011
07:14 GMT |
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NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoC may be a mobile multimedia powerhouse, according to some standards at least, but even that particular platform isn't perfect, as it could definitely use some extra energy efficiency, something Wolfson claims to be able to grant.As end-users know, the Tegra 2 SoC (system-on-chip) is one... |
3 February 2011
08:56 GMT |
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