Firefox's mobile OS said to capture 1% of market share by the end of 2013
The Droid Guy
This could easily become Android's competition is the entry level smart
phone sector. Just like Google's Chrome OS, the Firefox mobile OS uses a
browser to play apps in. This will give developers more flexibility, and
can develop really powerful apps.
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Samsung Is The Sole Reason For Android's Success
Mobile & Apps
With a new report suggesting that Android's success may be mainly due to
the efforts of Samsung, Google may be wondering what would happen if
Samsung one day choses to drop Android for its own operating system or a
rival OS like Windows Phone.
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Maine campaigns develop appetite for apt apps
Press Herald
Wilson, a 27-year-old Republican running for a seat in the Maine House of
Representatives, takes out his iPad and opens Mobile Voter, an app for
Apple and Android devices that he's been using to organize his campaign. He
scrolls a map over ...
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iOS 6 Not Satisfying Enough?
Mobile bloom News
Research was conducted by On Device, a mobile customer research firm,
across 16000 users and the results showed that there was a drop in
satisfaction levels as compared to iOS 4 and 5. While the drop is marginal,
this is in fact the first time that ...
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Secure browsing on iOS in Safari or iCab Mobile
tuaw.com
iCab Mobile also supports x-callback-url which helps iCab interact with
other iOS applications. If you don't know what x-callback-url is, don't
worry about it, but if you do know what it is, you'll be glad to know iCab
supports it. To some people ...
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Secure your mobile life
Sydney Morning Herald
As convenient as mobile technology is, it does leave us vulnerable. Common
scams include: hoax messages that prompt you to reveal personal
information; malware that if inadvertently downloaded can track your web
surfing and keystrokes; fake phone ...
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New County Mobile App a Must in Emergencies
ScoopSanDiego.com
New County Mobile App a Must in Emergencies. iPhone, Android Users: ...
Starting today, you can download SD Emergency to your iPhone, iPad or
Android phone or tablet to get critical emergency information wherever you
are. The app is designed to keep ...
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80 New APIs: Amazon Auto Scaling, Google Civic Information and
Progressive ...
ProgrammableWeb (blog)
MyCaption Speech to Text API: MyCaption is a developer of voice enabled
mobile apps. Their flagship product for BlackBerry phones is speech to text
software. It can be used to voice enable users' email, text messaging, and
PIM functions as well as ...
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Italians Take Up The Torch To Ignite Their Own Tech Startup Scene
TechCrunch
Their pitch: AppsBuilder is a DIY platform for mobile applications
development. No coding skills are needed! Trough a single building process
users can create an app for iOS (iPad, iPhone/iPod), Android (Tablets &
Phones) and Windows Phone. Last but ...
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Google Play store hits 25 billion downloads
Nzweek
It is a digital distribution service, including a music player and an
online store for music, movies, books, magazines and applications for
Google's mobile system Android. Since the launch of Android Market in 2008,
it took 1,435 days for Google to ...
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Apps of the week: Productivity apps
The Tennessean
Here are some highly rated apps to make life a little easier. Apple.
Numbers ($9.99): Build spreadsheets with ... Skyvi (Siri for Android)
(Free): This voice-activated personal assistant for Android devices allows
for hands-free voice-to-text and ...
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Technology Focus: Has RIM Exited Its Death Spiral?
International Business Times
Here's the bullish case: Under new CEO Thorsten Heins, RIM has
restructured, cut staff and costs, and pushed to get out the
next-generation BlackBerry 10 phone early in 2013. Forty mobile carriers in
16 countries have promised to support it, and apps ...
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Will the $49 Android PC help bridge the digital divide?
Android Authority
Mobile broadband is on the rise, and so is the world's Internet user base.
But that's not the complete picture. A digital divide still exists,
particularly in developing economies, where access to online resources is
limited to an elite few. Sometimes ...
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