San Francisco: Mozilla, maker of the popular Internet browser Firefox, is preparing to challenge Google and Apple’s access to smartphone software. A new Firefox operating system (OS) for mobile devices is slated for release in July after winning the support of 13 wireless carriers around the world, including Spain’s Telefonica, China Unicom and America Movil. …
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Ein mächtiger asiatischer Hersteller, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , verwendet die Android-Software von Google Inc, um Smartphones und Tablets zu entwickeln, die dem iPhone und dem iPad sehr ähnlich sind. Samsung beginnt, Marktanteile zu gewinnen, schadet den Margen und dem Aktienkurs von Apple Inc und bedroht seine Herrschaft als König der Coolness in der Unterhaltungselektronik. …
The latest Surface runs on an Intel Corp chip and features the full Windows 8 Pro operating system, which Microsoft hopes will make the device appealing to people who want to both produce and consume material. It also hopes to appeal to companies looking to provide employees with lightweight, mobile machines that can be easily …
Taipei: Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp will shift its focus more towards emerging markets, offering cheaper phones in China this year as it struggles with falling revenues in the shadow of Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy series. HTC on Monday gave a disappointing outlook for first-quarter revenue, saying it would be 17% lower than the …
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Aimed at home users rather than businesses, the new Office suite of applications — including desktop staples Outlook email, Excel, Word and PowerPoint — is expected to extend Microsoft’s workplace dominance into the home office and tackle growing competition from Google Inc .fight back .’s free online apps. “The notion of an always-up-to-date, streaming version …
The world’s most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps iPhone app. The release comes almost three months after Apple Inc. replaced Google Maps as the device’s built-in navigation system and added its own maps to the latest version of its mobile operating system. Apple’s maps proved far …
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WASHINGTON: The global market for tablet computers is growing faster than previous estimates suggested, with Android-powered devices catching up with market-leading iPads, according to a survey on Wednesday. IDC has raised its forecast for global tablet sales for 2012 to 122.3 million from 117.1 million, due in large part to demand for Android tablets and …
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San Francisco: The smartphone app Instagram on Wednesday shut down a feature that allows Twitter users to view photos more easily, in a move that pushes the two popular tech platforms further apart. “Users are having trouble viewing Instagram photos on Twitter,” San Francisco-based Twitter said in a status update. “This is because Instagram has …
New York: Amazon.com Inc. is launching a children’s games, videos and books subscription service aimed at getting more kids to use its Kindle Fire tablet devices. Amazon plans to announce on Wednesday that the Kindle FreeTime Unlimited service will be available over the next few weeks as part of an automatic software update. Amazon said …
New Delhi: Facebook on Wednesday launched a new Messenger app for Android phones that allows users, including those without a Facebook account, to send and receive messages to and from anyone with a phone number. The social networking giant has partnered with all major network operators and device manufacturers for this service. “Users can now …
