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New Blackberry 10 Homescreen
Thorsten Heins unveiled the Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha at Blackbery World last week as a developer demo version of RIM’s upcoming products, and in so doing gave users a sneak preview of the new homescreen and entry point to the updated OS. The shots show the homescreen will be less widget-based and more of an [...]
No Firefox Or Chrome On WOA Desktop
Mozilla last week made an announcement complaining at technical restrictions Microsoft is imposing on the ARM-version of its new Windows 8 OS. Mozilla claims Microsoft’s rules will prevent Mozilla and other browser vendors from incorporating their browsers in the Windows 8 desktop on ARM devices. It has recently been made known that ARM architecture will [...]
LG – No Windows Phones
LG revealed this week that it has no plans to release a Windows Phone handset in the near future. The spokesman was responding to questions from the Korea Herald, and said that Microsoft’s low market share in the smartphone market made deviating from the Android path a non-starter for the company at present – ‘the [...]
Apple and Foxconn Improve Working Conditions
Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn are rumored to be sharing the expense of bettering work conditions for employees in Foxconn’s Chinese factories. Foxconn recently held a ceremony for its new Chinese headquarters, based in Shanghai, where a spokesman for the company said that improving factory conditions was ‘a competitive strength, not a cost.’ Foxconn [...]
Evernote Hand-written Note-taking
The popular Evernote cloud note-taking service will soon be expanding its functionality after buying the Penultimate handwriting-recognition app. Evernote lets users save documents or notes in the cloud for later access using different devices, and has vowed to closely inttegrate the handwriting with its document storage capabilities. But the Penultimate HR app will continue to [...]
Microsoft Windows 8 – No DVD Support
Microsoft has explained its decision not to incorporate DVD playback support as standard in Windows 8, since the company maintains it would be unfair for people buying ultrabooks or tablets because of the limitations of the licensing framework. Microsoft came in for criticism last week when it was disclosed that Win 8 wouldn’t automatically include [...]
US Smartphone Figures For March
ComScore has released details of US smartphone sales figures for March, with the usual good showing from Apple and Samsung. Android leapt almost four percentage points to feature in 51% of new US smartphone purchases, but Apple is cruising along well, helped by good iPhone sales numbers, and climbed to 30.7% of all American smartphone [...]
NYT enjoys increase in traffic by 73% year-on-year
The New York Times was amongst the firat major world newspapers to begin charging for content, and it seems to have paid off. The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) reports that the NYT is enjoying a boost to its circulation, with the Sunday edition selling 50% more than last year and the weekday rag’s sales [...]
Kinle Fire Makes Up Half Of US Tablets
The Amazon Kindle Fire is now the most popular Android tablet, with new comScore research showing that 54% of tablets owned are Kindle Fires. The stats were valid at the end of February. The second most popular tablet is the Samsung Galaxy Tab duo of 7- and 10-inch slates, although the Galaxy Tab share of [...]
Ivy Bridge Apple MacBook Upgrades
Intel released details of six quad-core mobile CPUs as part of the Ivy Bridge launch. That lot should enable Apple to completely overhaul its MacBook Pro range. The new 22nm, 3D ‘tri-gate’ transistor architecture was released Monday along with details of the Ivy Bridge roadmap, such as a 45W TDP quad-core chip that should slot [...]
