Demand for mobile phones shows no signs of slowing down. Google teamed with Compete to gauge the impact of digital on mobile shoppers, and discovered that online has fundamentally changed the purchase path. With wireless related searches up 82%, and four times as many shoppers using online video to research, brands need to raise awareness and inform shoppers’ decisions online.
Source: goog...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
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What I learned about mobile in China
In China I met several entrepreneurs and others at the Bluetooth World conference there. China has a very different mobile culture, so thought I'd share what I learned here:1. Facebook and Twitter and many other sites don't work. Neither do their mobile apps. Yes, you can use a VPN or a proxy server, but most sites are very slow compared to when I use those sites in the US. (The government blocks those sites. Most of the entrepreneurs...
Friday, April 5, 2013
Google Drive Now Comes With More Options for Android Apps Storage and Sync
One of the advantages of Apple’s storage in the cloud service iCloud
is that it allows the developers to user their available storage as a
secure environment for synchronizing and backing up data and settings.
Google’s Drive was inferior until now, as the options provided to the
Android app developers were limited, but the Mountain View-based company
announced the inclusion of new options that make Drive a more powerful...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Facebook Android-powered Smartphone To Run Facebook Home UI
It seems that Facebook will announce its own smartphone this week, one that will allegedly run a new Android UI, which will be named Facebook Home.
The name of the users interface comes from two different sources, according to which Facebook Home is going to be the appellation of the new Android UI. According to 9to5 Google, Facebook has already sent invitations to the press members for its media event, invitations which read...
Monday, March 25, 2013
Facebook Update for Android App
Facebook is out with another update for its Android app exactly one day after it released an update for its iOS app. This new app lets users change their profile picture using the app. Additionally, users can even choose and control what News Feeds they want to receive notifications for and what information they want displayed.
Users can hide stuff they don’t want to appear, and can even report spam on a post in News Feed. Users can...
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Magic 2014 coming soon to Android
Look, we all know that you have a really bitchin' black/blue Magic:
The Gathering deck tucked somewhere in the closet from high school, so
it's okay if you're a little excited that the famous trading card game
is finding its way to Android devices later this year. We got some time
to play it at PAX East 2013, and it proved to be as reliable a game as
its predecessor.
Magic 2014 will have a lot of the same elements that iOS and...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Apple’s new iPad out in April, iPhone 5S in Augus
The iPhone 5S and iPad rumour mill is getting stronger. iMore has reported that the Apple will launch new versions of the iPad, the iPad mini in April while the iPhone 5S will be released later in August.
The report states that sources familiar with the plans have told iMore that the iPhone 5S does indeed have the same basic design as the iPhone 5, with a more advanced processor and an improved camera. The report...
IDC: More Than 50% of the Phones Sold in 2013 Will Be Smartphones
There’s no doubt now: in 2013 we will be officially entering the smartphone era, as the latest studies show that the smartphone sales will overtake the mobile phone sales for the first time.
According to a study by IDC (International Data Corporation), the main promoters of the explosive growth of the smartphone segment are the emergent markets like Brazil, China, or India where the quick spreading of the 4G networks and...
Monday, March 4, 2013
How to Turn An Old Android Phone into a Networked Security Camera
If the idea of a networked security camera that you can remotely view and receive alerts from appeals to you (but the $$$ of a commercial model does not), read on as we show you how to turn older generation Android phones into sophisticated security cameras.
Why Would I Want to Do This?
Well, we hate to presume, but we imagine you opened this tutorial because you have something you want to keep on eye on. Whether that’s your backdoor...
Monday, February 25, 2013
BlackBerry launches first Z10 device in India at Rs 43,490
BlackBerry today launched its much-awaited smartphone Z10, powered by its latest operating system 'BlackBerry 10', in India at a price of Rs 43,490, taking rivals Apple and Samsung head on in the world's second largest telecom market.
The Canadian smartphone maker has launched its latest model in India nearly a month after the global launch of new operating system 'BlackBerry 10' and two devices Z10 and Q10 on this platform on January...
Friday, February 15, 2013
Are you ready for BlackBerry 10?
It’s a Brand New Year. Are You Ready for BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10?
It can be easy to mistaken BlackBerry 10 as simply another new smartphone that will get some space on the shelves. But for those of us who work in the industry, and particularly at Research In Motion, we see it quite differently. BlackBerry 10 is a whole new platform that has unparalleled multitasking capabilities, gesture-based interactions,...
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Could This Be the iPhone 5S?
Photos of what may be Apple's next iPhone surfaced online Monday.
Source: - Mashable
Posted by a Chinese technology site, the images allegedly show the iPhone 5S already going into production. Nearly identical to the iPhone 5, the handset shown in the photos has an updated vibration motor (some have complained the iPhone 5's is too noisy). Beyond that minor difference, however, it looks identical to the model currently...
Rumor: Apple's 4.8-inch iPhone 6 won't launch till June 2014 due to screen yield issues
Apple plans to introduce an iPhone with a 4.8-inch display and additional processing cores to help stem market share losses to rivals like Samsung but has been unable to accelerate the launch of the product into the 2013 calendar year due to challenges in producing enough of the larger displays, one investment research firm said Wednesday.
Editor's Note: It has been brought to our attention that certain specific claims of the Jefferies...
Sony Xperia ZL Release Date Is April, It’s Cheaper Than The Xperia Z
Announced together at CES 2013 in January, Sony Xperia Z and Xperia ZL were to of the most popular smartphones that showed up at the Las Vegas-based event, being the first smartphones of the Japanese phone maker powered by a quad-core processor.
We already know that Sony Xperia Z release date for the European market was set for the second half of March, but, for the time being, the price of the Xperia Z smartphone is still unknown....
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Bring On The iPhone 6! First Look From The Apple Fantasy Prototype League
Now that the first signs of an actual iPhone 6 model testing iOS 7 emanating from the IP footprint of Apple‘s Cupertino campus have been identified in app usage logs, it’s time to open the next season of the product design equivalent of Fantasy Football. Contestants pick features from existing Apple products as well as from their overheated imaginations in the attempt to beat the iPhone maker at its own game.
As I wrote last...
iPhone 6 Reportedly Coming with 5-inch Display, Large Screens Aren’t “Oversized, Awkward, and Hard To Use” Anymore?
Apple and the Apple fanboys have always mocked the competition’s products for having “ridiculously” big displays. For five years in a row Apple claimed that 3.5 inches is the ideal size for a smartphone display, then it launched the iPhone 5 with a 4-inch display. Magically, the 3.5 inch was no longer the ideal size for displays, because the 4-inch display was “designed the right way: it’s bigger, but it’s the same width as iPhone 4S.”...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Might Come with Quad-core Processor, Shows Benchmark Log
If you ask people on the street which phone they expect the most, many of them will give a straight answer, the Samsung Galaxy S4. The more people are interested in a device, the more related rumors appear. The company hasn’t announced the Galaxy S4 officially, but we know that it will launch the so-called “next big thing” pretty soon.
Now, the latest news is provided by the database of GLBenchmark. The benchmark displays...
PlayStation 4 to Come with Support for Android Mobile Terminals?
Sony has scheduled the PlayStation 4 release date for February 20th, while reports are indicating that it will be priced around $400. Most of the sources are pointing out that now the powerful hardware platform will be PS4′s main selling point, but the way you will be able to play. The statement of a Sony official makes us believe that PlayStation 4 might come with support or integration for Android terminals.
A Sony official...
Beware! Fake Android app
Computer and internet security agencies in the country have detected a notorious 'Android' application which illegally enters smartphones and compromises their security by sending SMSes to unknown contacts.
The malware application has been identified as "Superclean or DroidCleaner" by India's premier computer security agency - Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In).
"It has been observed that an Android malware capable...
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