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Video game publisher SEGA has announced that, on time for Valentine’s Day, it is introducing a number of price cuts for some of its most interesting titles between February 11 and 14, as long as players are interested in getting them on the iOS and the Android-powered smartphones and tablets.
Here are the game... |
10 February 2012
10:34 GMT |
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Sony, a company that deals in video games but also a range of other electronic devices, has officially announced that Kaz Hirai, who has been the leader of the PlayStation division of the company, will become both the president and the chief executive officer on the first day of April, replacing Howard Stringer.
Hir... |
2 February 2012
02:59 GMT |
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The Marine Conservation Science Institute has recently launched an eco-friendly app, suggestively entitled Expedition White Shark, available for the iPhone and iPad. It can be used to track Great White Sharks in their natural habitat, in real-time. The app that sells for $3.99 (€3.12) on iTunes was introduced in... |
13 January 2012
11:42 GMT |
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UK mobile phone users interested the purchase of a new mobile phone this holiday season can now benefit from great savings if they make the purchase from Carphone Warehouse.
The leading retailer has just announced plans to clear up inventories, thus kicking off an impressive promotion for its users.
Both smartph... |
27 December 2011
10:49 GMT |
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The year is not over yet, but Samsung has great reasons to rejoice, as the company managed to sell a number of over 300 million mobile phones already.
The company has registered solid growth when compared to last year’s sales, which reached 281 million units, and is expected to grow further more.
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12 December 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Following the general trend these days, wireless carrier Sprint announced a while back plans to deploy a LTE network, and it seems that the company is on track to make its first LTE smartphones available for purchase sometime in the second half of the next year. Next year, Sprint should have a number of over 15 LTE d... |
6 December 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Rumors are talking about new gaming platforms from Sony and Microsoft and we already know a lot about the new Nintendo Wii U but at least one industry legend believes that the age of the home console is over.Speaking to IndustryGamers Richard Garriot, who is best known for going into space and creating the Ultima ser... |
1 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation should soon bring to shelves a new range of devices, at least this is what a recently leaked list with codenames from the company shows.
Available courtesy of the guys over at Pocketnow, the list includes both already launched devices, as well as yet unannounced ones, s... |
9 November 2011
01:58 GMT |
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This summer saw investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developing an amazing new technology, which allowed experts to control a small rotorcraft over great distances.
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was being handled through an iPhone application, which enabled the user to control the ai... |
8 November 2011
08:55 GMT |
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Samsung has just outplaced Apple in smartphone sales on a global basis, but it seems that the company still has some catch up to do in some markets around the world including the United States, where HTC is said to be the king at the moment.
The Taiwanese mobile phone maker secured the first position on the US sma... |
1 November 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon has just announced its financial results for the third quarter of the ongoing year, and posted strong revenue for the time frame. The wireless carrier announced a number of 1.3 million total new connections for the third quarter of the ongoing year, 882,000 of which were retail postpaid ... |
21 October 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Today's smartphone can do a lot of things, even more than what desktop PCs can, and it seems that they might be capable of even more of them in the not too far future. High-end smartphones are now capable of showing you your location, and also pack a series of sensors that include accelerometer, proximity, ligh... |
18 October 2011
09:01 GMT |
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The mobile web is exploding and smartphones are becoming ubiquitous in many places. Yet, things are moving so fast and everything is so new that people don't really know what works and what doesn't and how the mobile web is evolving and doing around the world.This is where Google's new tool, a website ... |
5 October 2011
13:06 GMT |
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A group of experts at the American space agency announce the development of a new technology for measuring air quality, as well as for detecting hazardous chemicals in the environment. The new sensors will be able to function while powered by a simple smartphone.
The tool was showcased on September 28 in Los Ange... |
1 October 2011
03:54 GMT |
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LetsTalk has just announced a new special offering for all smartphones it sells on Verizon Wireless' network.
Until August 31st, all of them are available for $50 less than before, as long as users will commit to a two-year contract agreement with the wireless carrier.
Following the slashing of prices f... |
27 August 2011
08:31 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita handheld has been confirmed as coming to the Japanese market before the end of the year and to Europe and North America early in 2012, but a lot of analysts are still wary of competition coming from the smartphone market.
But it seems that Sony has done the research and is sure that there are ... |
22 August 2011
13:41 GMT |
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A group of engineers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) says that smartphones and laptops of the future may be capable of replenishing their batteries from the environment. The team is working on a method of transforming the devices' LCD screens into energy-harvesting instruments.According to... |
10 August 2011
02:57 GMT |
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Today's mobile market is already amazing, but it seems that more will be coming in the next several years or so.
Handsets have already started to play a great role in the life of users, especially smartphones, which now replace even the computer at home, or the wallet in one's pocket.
Undoubtedly, t... |
22 July 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Wireless services provider T-Mobile USA is expected to add a new set of smartphones to its offering in the near future, which would enable users to connect to its fast HSPA+ network, if some of the latest reports on the matter are to be believed.
Sometime in the second half of the ongoing year, the wireless carr... |
21 July 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Slowly but surely, Samsung is gaining more ground on the mobile phone market, greatly helped by its smartphone lineup, a quite impressive one, that's for sure.
The company managed to impress a lot of end-users with its latest flagship handsets running under Google's Android operating system, and might ... |
18 July 2011
05:38 GMT |
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Today, owners of mobile phones running under Google's Android operating system can enjoy access to a new Android Market, one that also offers them access to books and movies.
The new storefront has been delivered to all handsets that are based on Android 2.2 and higher, after being released on tablet PCs.
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13 July 2011
02:02 GMT |
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Despite the fact that The Pokemon Company, which is linked to Nintendo, has announced that it was officially endorsing a new Pokemon game that will be launched on the smartphones powered by the iOS and by Android from Google, this does not mean that more Nintendo games will be launched on devices that are not manufac... |
7 July 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Strauss Zelnick, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Take Two Interactive, has said that the price of video games that are created specifically for tablets could be as high as for those experiences that are designed with home consoles in mind, as long as the quality is similar.He stated, “At the end of the da... |
22 June 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Sony has just officially announced the PlayStation Vita handheld, which will launch later in the year, and plans to launch a number of high-profile titles on it, but the entire handheld ecosystem is being threatened by the rise of the smartphones that are also gaming enabled.Still one of the leading executives at Son... |
15 June 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Sony has announced its new handheld, officially known at the moment as the NPG and possibly called Vita for launch, back in January of this year but the company says that the E3 reveal for the device will show how it can dominate the handheld market in the long term.Speaking to EDGE abou... |
3 June 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Last year, Microsoft and its partners unveiled a number of no less than nice handsets powered by the Windows Phone 7 platform, and it seems that a similar number is about to be unveiled tomorrow, during an already discussed event in New York City. Microsoft's OEM partners are said to be on their way to unveil a... |
23 May 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Speaking at the Ad Age Conference keynote, the CEO of video game publisher Electronic Arts has said that the audience that is playing video games is rapidly growing and that it will become more important for advertisers in the coming years, surpassing that of television. Riccitiello has said that there are more than... |
7 April 2011
05:45 GMT |
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In response to a series of allegations regarding Google's “open” approach towards Android, Google's Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering, has published a blog post on the Android Developers website, stating that things are actually a little different. According to him, Google continues to move towards... |
7 April 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Steam is expanding, having added the ability for gamers to take screenshots of their video games by using the overlay, and information coming from one member of the community suggests that Valve is now preparing to also add the ability for players to capture video from Steam titles.
The information comes from a co... |
23 March 2011
14:31 GMT |
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It's becoming increasingly clear that ultra-portable mobile computing devices, such as Internet tablets and smartphones, will represent a huge market segment on the future, and HP is keen on getting a bigger piece of this very serious pie on the future, as the company's CEO states.So, according to a report ... |
15 March 2011
04:34 GMT |
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PopCap Games, the company which dominates the casual video games market, has released a study that shows how the present of gaming is being dominated by those who play on mobile devices, with subjects in both the United States and in the United Kingdom saying that mobile play time is now more important than that spen... |
1 March 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Forget the current Tegra 2 mobile processor and the impressive performance levels it can offer. Clocked in at only 1GHz, the CPU might soon be left behind by another chip from Nvidia, running at 1.2GHz, and being capable of delivering more capabilities and power to smartphones and tablet PCs. Only a rumor for the ti... |
24 January 2011
06:54 GMT |
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Not that big of a surprise, but Google says 2011 will be focused almost entirely on the mobile space. CEO Eric Schmidt says that all major projects have to do with mobile and that the year will be a huge one for smartphones, with inexpensive models beginning to roll out on scale and available to the poorer parts of t... |
21 January 2011
06:33 GMT |
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The important of Internet tablets, smartphones and Smart TVs has grown considerably over the past couple of years, so much that IT behemoths such as Lenovo consider it necessary to create a special business unit dedicated specifically to this brand of products.The new group, called the Mobile Internet and Digital Hom... |
18 January 2011
08:59 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has unveiled the BlackBerry 6.1 Application Platform during the opening day of BlackBerry DevCon Asia, saying that it was built on the BlackBerry 6 platform and that it would bring a series of new features to both users and developers.Tyler Lessard, VP of Global Allianc... |
14 January 2011
05:30 GMT |
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It really seems that the mobile computing game is seriously heating up, with more surprise being prepared for CES 2011, where, among numerous other tablet-related announcements, Rockchip will also unveil its future mobile Internet platform, the RK29xx.If you've not exactly familiar with Rockchip, you should know... |
20 December 2010
09:31 GMT |
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The Nvidia Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip is expected to become the “reference design” for the upcoming Android 3.0 Honeycomb mobile operating system, as it would power both tablet PCs and smartphoens based on this platform version.Citigroup’s Glen Yeung was the one to point at a possible standardization... |
16 December 2010
07:47 GMT |
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Although desktop and room system-based video conferencing services are not exactly a huge novelty, the truth of the matter is that most people out there require more mobile solutions, given the fact that they spend a lot of time on the go, and that's exactly what Elisa and Vidyo will offer.So, Elisa Corporation,... |
14 December 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Wireless carrier U.S. Cellular has announced the introduction of a new offer for its customers who are interested in adding a smartphone line, offering them a $150 Smartphone Activation Credit. The offer was put in place for both new and existing customers who choose a smartphone on the operator's airwaves.Acco... |
22 November 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Wirefly, one of the leading online authorized retailer of cell phones and plans, has just announced the launch of a new service, called Wirefly Mobile Backup, aimed at offering consumers the possibility to backup and transfer their contacts, and do more, regardless the carrier they are on, the OS or the mobile phone... |
3 November 2010
15:01 GMT |
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On Monday, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics announced officially that it managed to sell a number of no less than 820,000 smartphones in its homeland market during the month of October. According to the leading handset vendor, the performance allowed it to account for around 43.2 percent market sh... |
2 November 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Cupertino-based Apple has removed the famous 'smartphone signal attenuation' videos from its antenna information page. Previously, the said page displayed a series of videos showing the various popular smartphones on the market suffer from attenuation of reception when held in certain ways, just as its new... |
2 August 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Today, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics (LG) announced the launch of its new LG Application Store aimed at mobile devices around the world. According to the company, the new portal comes with two times more applications than before. These software solutions are aimed both at smartphones and feature pho... |
28 July 2010
13:31 GMT |
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On Monday, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced the release of new handsets, included in the company's Optimus series. According to LG, the new LG Optimus Series should prove a lineup of innovative devices the pack the latest advancements in the mobile space, while being meant to highlight L... |
6 July 2010
03:02 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia was rumored a couple of days ago to plan on moving towards the newly unveiled MeeGo platform for its high-end N Series devices, and it seems the plans have been confirmed. The recently announced Nokia N8 smartphone would be the last N Series handset to run under the Symbi... |
25 June 2010
03:22 GMT |
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Today, Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the release of its Adobe Flash Player 10.1 technology to the company's mobile partners. According to the company, the new solution has been built from scratch with new mobile specific features and with a great focus on the performance levels it can offer. Flash Player... |
22 June 2010
03:02 GMT |
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Mobile-phone maker Palm seems set to bring to the market new handsets powered by its webOS platform. Although the company has been recently acquired by computer maker HP, which is more interested in having the mobile operating system powering tablets and other products, it seems that Palm will still release new devic... |
19 June 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Finnish mobile-phone maker Nokia is reportedly getting ready to have the Near Field Communications (NFC) technology available on all the smartphones it would push to the market starting with 2011. The announcement was made by the company's Executive Vice President for Markets, Anssi Vanjoki, during a keynote pre... |
19 June 2010
04:09 GMT |
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Adobe Systems Inc seems pretty confident that its Flash Player will gain a lot of traction on the smartphone market. According to the company, the solution is expected to be present on a number of more than 250 million smartphones by the end of 2012. Moreover, the Flash Player should be supported by more than 53 per... |
11 June 2010
08:37 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is reportedly planning to make more Android-based devices available on the market during the ongoing year. To be more precise, the company has plans for a number of 20 such handsets before the end of 2010, a move that would enable the handset vendor to be more competiti... |
11 June 2010
04:48 GMT |
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