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Dell scapegoats Windows 8 – again
Dell has once again thrown Windows 8 under the bus, saying the unpopular operating system contributed to a decline in its PC-related revenue during the quarter that ended May 3. “Windows 8 has been…...
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iPhone owners spend 75 minutes a day on their phones, research suggests
New research from Experian Marketing Services shows that iPhone owners spend 53.06 percent more time on their phones than Android users do. Does this suggest that iPhones are more useful than Android...
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An APPealing prospect
With a quarter of global enterprises predicted to have an enterprise app store within four years, CNME delves into the drivers and challenges of the trend. When asking the CIOs of most organisations...
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Rolling back the years
It’s not an easy place to be, the smartphone market — but Nokia isn’t shying away from the challenge of once again reigning supreme. Much like the glory days of the ‘80s and ‘90s, Nokia is back with a...
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IDC: No end in sight for rising smartphone sales
Emerging markets and lower prices will push worldwide smartphone shipments close to the billion-unit level this year, according to the latest forecast by IDC. That company is predicting total...
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NFC forecast dims at Gartner
Gartner today drastically lowered its forecast for the monetary payments that near field communication technology will provide in coming years, noting the struggles of Google Wallet and Isis mobile...
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Android anti-virus products a big flop, researchers say
Android smartphones and tablets are under attack, and the most popular tools developed to protect them are easily circumvented, according to new research from Northwestern University and the University...
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The essentiality of optimising networks
Dany Sammour, Principal, Booz & Company Global demand for advanced broadband technology remains strong. In the last two decades, the Internet has become a necessity in people’s everyday life,...
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Thursday afternoon, a bombshell dropped: Two leading reports claimed that the U.S. government has been spying on emails, searches, Skype calls, and other electronic communications used by Americans for...
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Mobile users to embrace LBS and QR codes, says TNS study
Location-based services (LBS) and quick-response (QR) codes are set to become the next big mobile growth feature, according to the Annual Mobile Life Study by custom market research firm TNS. In a...
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UAE to get the world’s first BlackBerry Q5s
The first customers in the world to get their hands on the upcoming BlackBerry Q5 will be those residing in the UAE, BlackBerry announced on Wednesday. The latest smartphone to sport the BlackBerry 10...
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Windows Phone ‘weak’, Huawei sneers
Huawei calls the Windows Phone platform weak despite using it as the foundation for some of the smartphones it makes. “[Windows Phones] are weak but still require a licence fee,” says Richard Yu, CEO...
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Report: Microsoft and Nokia talked acquisition
Microsoft and cellphone maker Nokia were in advanced talks about an acquisition of the Finnish company’s device business, but the discussions have broken down, according to a report in The Wall Street...
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Gartner offers more data on PC decline and tablet surge
Gartner today projected that the overall decline in shipments of desktop and laptop PC’s will be 10.6 percent in 2013, while tablet shipments will grow by 67.9 percent. The trend toward...
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Apple OSes to narrow gap with Windows, says Gartner
Shipments of devices based on Apple’s Mac OS and iOS will close the gap on those of products running all flavours of Windows over the next two years, but Windows will then start to pull away again,...
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Black to basics
The noticeable change in focus by BlackBerry was hard to miss at BlackBerry Live in Florida, with the news of yet another smart device release on BB10 and the eyebrow-raising plan to offer the popular...
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Google has ‘lapped Siri’ with sci-fi-like search
Google has an image of the future of search and it’s a bit sci-fi. Google developers envision users talking to their computers much like the characters on Star Trek did. Want to know where the closest...
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Rapid-growing mobile payments market is driving a financial fraud marketplace
The global mobile payments market is predicted to exceed US$1.3 trillion in the coming years, presenting opportunities for cyber-crime gangs to exploit, according to a white paper published by the...
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Lenovo’s net profit up 90 percent, smartphone shipments soar
PC sales in China and high growth in smartphones shipments helped boost Lenovo’s net profit for its fiscal fourth quarter by 90 percent year-over-year. For the quarter ended March 31, Lenovo’s net...
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Intel claims Haswell will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops
Intel’s upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops than did their “Ivy Bridge” predecessors, Intel said on Thursday. Haswell chips were...
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