| Westpac to develop technology in-house The Age Despite cutting several hundred jobs and being accused of planning to offshore the majority of its IT operation, Westpac technology chiefs say the development of newmobile applications and innovative solutions for the banking group must be handled... See all stories on this topic » |  The Age |
SC Magazine Australia
By Dan Raywood on May 27, 2012 12:17 AM More than a thousand smartphone users have downloaded 'trojanised' versions of mobile applications that secretly sent expensive SMS messages to premium-rate numbers. According to a report by The Daily Telegraph, ...
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Worcester Telegram
There are more than 400000 Android apps. What's a body to do? Fortunately, there's an app for finding apps. The app is Appreciate, and it's for Android phones and tablets. Appreciate makes recommendations as it gets to know what you like.
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Examiner.com
Nokia has discontinued the Symbian OS and decided to use the Windows Phone 7 OS going forward. Windows Mobile was the predecessor to WP7 and while it surprises me that phones with Windows Mobile on them are still being sold, I guess there are some ...
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DailyFinance
Of the 152.3 million smartphones shipped during the first three months of the year, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, iPhones and Androids accounted for 82% of the market. To put this into the appropriate mind-blowing ...
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Gainesville Sun
Sixty million reviews, a slick mobile interface and Facebook integration ensure all your stops will be valuable. Google Maps Navigation (Android- Free): This a chance to praise Google for their awesome navigation app that is free and already built into ...
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| Instagram grew 78 percent in April, but where does it fit into Facebook's plans? Digitaltrends.com It's entirely plausible that while Facebook is slowly developing its mobile experience for users with new Facebook branded apps and increasing its brand presence onmobile phones, the company is slowly preparing for its first horizontal integration via... See all stories on this topic » |  Digitaltrends.com |
Tom's Guide
While Opera is a distant last in the desktop browser market (as of last month, it had just 1.76 percent of the market), it's currently the top mobile browser with a market share of 21.52 percent and has a prescence on smartphones, tablets, ...
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PC Advisor
Opera says that more than 168 million people -- many of them "young and innovative," according to market research -- used the Opera Mini mobile web browser in March. With Mini in hand, Facebook could vastly expand its reach into mobile.
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| Larry Page: With A Healthy Disregard For The Impossible, People Can Do Almost ... Singularity Hub He also said Google is focused on making an “amazing, beautiful, seamless experience” across its applications, citing how Chrome instantaneously syncs between mobile and desktop as well as how Google Play removes the need for downloading apps or files ... See all stories on this topic » |  Singularity Hub |
allvoices
By sarah1 Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google, saying that the search giant had violated their patent rights in the development of Android mobile operating system. The complaint has now been rejected by a federal jury, which examined the case.
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DailyFinance
By Evan Niu, The Motley Fool Chip titan Intel (NAS: INTC) is finally taking mobile serious, and it's putting a boatload of its weight behind pushing into ARM Holdings' (NAS: ARMH) territory. Meanwhile, ARM is eyeing Intel's home turf and licking its ...
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| Motorola Droid Razr, Maxx, getting Android Ice Cream Sandwich? When? PopHerald.com Google, according to rumors, is set to release a brand new mobile operating system, the Android Jellybean, and if Motorola's new ICS upgrade roadmap is accurate, then the two popular Verizon phones might get the much-needed software update before the... See all stories on this topic » |  PopHerald.com |
State College News
Facebook is clearly setting its sights on photo-sharing, a key component of the mobile experience. More than 300 million photos are uploaded to Facebook each day. On Thursday, Facebook introduced Facebook Camera for iOS, a standalone photo application ...
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Oakland Local
Are you a programmer, coder, mobile developer, engineer, product manage, UI/UX designer, or some other kind of techie? If the answer is yes, and you'd like to get involved in this year's Code for Oakland, the Oakland and East Bay-focused hackathon ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Nothing else — not Google's various pages, nor Yahoo's, nor Microsoft's — came anywhere close. And that doesn't even count mobile apps. Nielsen says. Facebook's Apple and Android apps, among the most popular in both systems, were used by 62 million ...
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ProgrammableWeb (blog)
Applications can generate messages to specified recipients or poll for and retrieve messages from others via the service. API methods support "mobile originate" (MO) and "mobile terminate" (MT) messaging for both inbound communication from phones and ...
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| Mark Hurd: 'I felt Oracle was in a position to do something nobody else could do' Telegraph.co.uk It has been engaged in a bitter courtroom battle with Google over the Android mobileoperating system. It relies on Java, a programming language Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems. Oracle accused Google of unlawfully copying key elements ... See all stories on this topic » |  Telegraph.co.uk |
Business 2 Community
Placement Type – Drill down by excluding traditional sites, videos, games, mobile apps, etc. Locations & Languages – Return only the countries and demographic populations you want to advertise in. Ad Sizes – If you have trouble creating an image ad in ...
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Savannah Morning News
It also will discuss local online search/local directory search; “place” pages and maps for Google, Yahoo! and Bing Mobile Websites; and building a mobile friendly site as well as keywords, short codes and SMS text messaging.
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TechCrunch
Here's why: More is More When it comes to web and mobile startups, high DAU to MAU is more important than the size or growth rate of an entrenched competitor. Case in point, Facebook defeated much earlier competitors like MySpace and Friendster, ...
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Wall St. Cheat Sheet
The latter's large mobile base might be of interest to Facebook, which is said to be readying a smartphone, and continues to push its HTML5 mobile app platform, which enables user to accessapps through a browser regardless of operating system.
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| Tech giants struggle to put a price on the future Telegraph.co.uk The latter is at the forefront of connecting almost a billion people online at a time when many are ditching computers for mobile devices. The respective dramas have provided entertainment and intrigue for those in the industry over the past seven days ... See all stories on this topic » |  Telegraph.co.uk |
| S Voice Vs. Siri: Clash of the Voice Assistants Eastern Morning Herald Both services also rely heavily on external search engines, on occasion redirecting queries to a Google search. Both Siri and S Voice can launch applications, but the Apple implementation is far quicker than its Samsung counterpart. See all stories on this topic » |  Eastern Morning Herald |
| Hackers welcome Roanoke Times He told them that Lujure's big announcement was the addition of an accessory — a separate buy at $147 that enables a Lujure subscriber to easily convert his or her Lujure-enhanced Facebook pages for mobile viewing. Latka called the price little more... See all stories on this topic » |  Roanoke Times |
Bangstyle
... primary app, or other third-party apps, so they're unfiltered and weren't necessarily taken with artistry in mind,” TechCrunch writes. Part of the reasoning behind Facebook's move is its intent to become increasingly optimized for mobile phone use, ...
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