…odel Motorola that has been enhanced with the Android operation system is the Quench. This phone is among seven other Motorola models, using the Android system. With very high definition – 320 x 480 – the small screen of only a little more than three inches, won’t be an issue. It also uses the Motoblur technology, which was made to enhance the user’s social networking exper…
…w design for the feature. Therefore, we expect no impact on current supply or future sales.” Apple said it would not be commenting on the decision. Apple was granted the sliding patent in March 2010 Motorola Mobility is in the process of being acquired by Google, and most of its handsets run on the search firm’s mobile operating system, Android. The Android system is Apple’s cl…
…C Mall Gov Updates for 8/30 HP Small Business: Just got an email response from HP: “Since we sold out of the current stock, we are building new units in order to fulfill orders received through 4am Monday, Aug 22. This means a delivery date in the 6 – 8 week range. Your order will be fulfilled.” Order was placed Saturday August 20th 3:50 PM. Updates for 8/29: No update from HP yet an…
…ell phone.” He said he saw the new business producing “the next generation of mobile devices that will improve lives for years to come”. The purchase gives Google access to more than 17,000 of the company’s valuable patents. The Chinese authorities cleared the deal on condition that Google keeps its mobile software, Android, free for other device makers for up to five years…
Call clarity and the number of minutes provided used to be the main criteria by which people chose their cellular phones. Today how “smart” a phone is plays majorly in peoples’ cell phone decisions. Today some people choose their smart phones by how many applications the phones have. The Android app market is one of the top application markets on the cell phone market. An…
…the Apple-Samsung patent lawsuit to "limit" consumers' access to Android devices Apple has indicated it will seek sales bans on the 17 phones at the heart of the lawsuit at a hearing on 20 September. The list does not include Samsung’s current flagship handset, the Galaxy S3, but does include earlier versions of the model. However, Apple could also use the verdict to try to ha…
…e for phones but a version for tablets is under development. Cory Ondrejka, Facebook’s head of engineering, said the company started its push to make everything it did centre on mobiles in early 2012. Figures from Facebook suggest that users spend about 25% of their time on their handsets looking at their feeds and chatting with friends. Facebook’s fourth quarter earnings revealed that…
esses is enhanced,” said Robert Yi, head of investor relations at Samsung. Samsung said its IT and mobile communications division, which manufactures the smartphones, made an operating profit of 4.27 trillion won during the period, as revenues in the division surged 86% from a year earlier. Samsung Electronics has overtaken Nokia to become the world's largest maker of mobile phones Sams…
Motorola Mobility has been granted an injunction against the distribution of key Microsoft products, Xbox 360 games console, Windows 7 system software, Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player, in Germany. The court’s decision follows a ruling that Microsoft had infringed two patents necessary to offer H.264 video coding and playback. A US court has banned Motorola from enforcing the action unt…
HP TouchPad Australian fire sale. Harvey Norman pulls the tablet from shelves too. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales in Europe blocked by Apple ARena is the app to install for Droid Bionic scavenger hunt Verizon launched an app for an “augmented reality” scavenger hunt (from September 4 until September 7). The participants could win “the smartphone that controls them…
…lue and appeal.” Much of the case does not centre on Google’s use of Java itself – which is free for anyone to use without license – but rather the Android-maker’s use of 37 APIs (application programming interfaces) which allow developers to write Java-compatible code. APIs allow different parts of a programme to communicate together as well as letting one application…
Motorola Mobility is to cut 4,000 staff worldwide as part of efforts to return to profitability. The job losses are the equivalent of 20% of its workforce. The firm, bought by Google last year, said it planned to close or merge about one third of its 90 facilities which include offices and factories. US-based Motorola also announced a shift in emphasis away from low-cost non-smartphones to “…
ich is the default app for keeping contact information on Android devices. The People app calendar goes from November 2012 straight to January 2013. Android is Google’s operating system. Version 4.2 was launched in October 2012. Other Google calendars are unaffected by the flaw. Google’s Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet run on the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean version of the operating s…
…ecurity on the Android platform. “We are committed to providing a secure experience for consumers in Google Play, and in fact our data shows between the first and second halves of 2011, we saw a 40% decrease in the number of potentially malicious downloads from Google Play,” a spokesman said. “Last year we also introduced a new service into Google Play that provides automated sca…
…low a similar format to Asus’s Transformer hybrids. In addition Samsung showed off the Ativ S – its first smartphone to run Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 Phone system. It features a 4.8 in (12.2 cm) display, making it one of the bigger models on the market. There was only one Android-tablet announcement – the Galaxy Note 2. The device features a 5.5 in (14 cm) screen and i…
HTC has unveiled two Windows Phone 8 handsets at an event in New York. HTC has said that it intends to promote the 8X, which features a 4.3″ (10.9 cm) display, as its flagship device alongside the Android-powered One X. The firm is also offering a smaller 8S model with a 4″ (10.2 cm) screen. HTC’s share price has fallen more than 50% since February after the firm experienced wea…
Coolpix S800c, the first mainstream digital camera to be powered by Google’s Android system, has been released by Nikon. Nikon’s point-and-shoot Coolpix S800c model is being marketed as a “social imaging device”. Demand for compact cameras has suffered because of the rise of smartphones. However, Nikon says its latest model offers superior picture quality thanks to the siz…
Google is set to launch a smaller, cheaper Android rival to Apple’s iPad as early as May. Made in partnership with tablet-maker Asus, Google’s tablet could sell for as little as $200, and will have a seven-inch screen, according to a leak reported in Digitimes. Google’s tablet would be a competitor to Amazon’s Kindle Fire – and like Fire, would be built to sell content such as v…
iPad 2′s is 10.1 inches. Kindle Fire has 8Gb built-in storage – iPad 2 has from 16Gb to 64Gb. Kindle Fire’s maximum battery life is 8 hours, iPad 2′s is 10. Kindle Fire weighs 414g, iPad 2 601g….
Google has revealed Jelly Bean Android 4.1 – the latest version of its Android system software. Google described the code as the “fastest and smoothest” version of its mobile system to date. It has also added the ability to type using speech recognition without needing to be connected to the net. Google revealed that 400 million Android devices have now been activated, four time…
…ird parties that track people’s online movements, says Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs. Google’s business is built on advertising – the company earned $28 billion from its AdWords service in 2010. Google’s new privacy policy allows it to “streamline” data from Android phones, YouTube, Gmail and web browsing to target its adverts even more precisely towards individual web users. Moz…
The GSM network, known as the “normal” mobile phone network, accounts for 80% of the global mobile market and is used by 4 billion phones worldwide. Recently, a new cell phones vulnerability have been demonstrated by Karsten Nohl, head of Germany’s Security Research Labs, which shows that any phone on any GSM network is vulnerable to attack. The new attack – which Karsten Nohl did not…
Intel confirms details of the first smartphone to be powered by one of its processors. The XOLO X900, made by the Indian manufacturer Lava, will go on sale on 23 April priced at about 22,000 rupees ($420). Lava has teamed up with Indian retail chain Croma to distribute the device across the country. The move follows Intel’s previous failed attempt to break into the smartphone market. A tie-…
…as of thousands of stores nationwide, timed to coincide with the launch of its new Angry Birds Space game this week. The company also plans to open branded retail stores in China soon. Rovio has about 300 staff, up from 50 a year ago, and has had to move out of central Helsinki to new, bigger headquarters next to mobile phone maker Nokia. Peter Vesterbacka reiterated that Rovio was in no hurry for…
Amazon Kindle color tablet, the new iPad rival, will be unveiled tomorrow during a press conference. Amazon is holding a press conference on Wednesday where it’s widely expected that the giant online retailer will unveil a new color Kindle that puts it on collision course with Apple – a device that could be half the price of iPad 2. Other tech giants from Motorola to Nokia have tried…
Oklahoma tornado kills at least 51 people as two entire schools flattened in MooreAt least 51 people have been killed after a huge tornado tore through Oklahoma City suburbs, with the death toll likely to rise. Worst hit was Moore, south of Oklahoma City,…
Iraq: At least 54 people killed in series of car bomb attacks in Baghdad, Basra and SamarraAt least 54 people have been killed and many others injured in a series of car bomb attacks in Iraqi cities Baghdad, Basra and Samarra, officials say. Baghdad was worst hit,…
Oklahoma tornado kills one person and injures dozensAt least one person is reported dead and at least 21 others injured in a series of tornadoes that have torn through Oklahoma and Kansas. The worst damage was caused by a…
Syrian troops seize strategic rebel stronghold in QusairFighting has raged in Syrian town of Qusair near Lebanon border after government troops launched a major operation to seize the strategic rebel stronghold. State media said…
Zahra Shahid Hussain shot dead in KarachiSenior Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain has been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain was the senior vice-president of Pakistan's…
North Korea fires short-range missiles from its east coastNorth Korea has launched three short-range missiles from its east coast, South Korea's defence ministry said. Two missiles were fired on Saturday morning and one in the…
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