Latest Mobile Computing News Stories
The biggest Pac-Man game in the world – online, and free
Photo: matt hutchinson / Flickr In a bid to showcase the capabilities and features of Internet Explorer 9, Namco-Bandai, the original creators of Pac-Man, have joined forces with Microsoft Australia to create the biggest Pac-Man game in the world. The project is ...
iPad is costing Americans jobs
Photo: Anirudh Koul / Flickr American activist Jesse Jackson has a reputation for saying some ludicrous things. His son, Jesse Jackson Jr. clearly wants to build on his father’s legacy. The politician says that the iPad is costing thousands of American jobs, ...
Angry Birds coming to Windows Phone 7 soon
Photo: SimonQ錫濛譙 / Flickr Microsoft has finally snagged the big mobile game it’s been after – cultural icon Angry Birds is headed to the Windows Phone 7 platform. Pigs everywhere should find somewhere safe to hide, with the title crash landing onto the ...
Multi-functional release from Asus with the Eee Pad Transformer
Photo: Asus Asus recently released the Eee Pad Transformer, an interesting and innovative hybrid device which can function as either a laptop or tablet, or both. As the name suggests, it can transform into either device, while the display disconnects at the ...
Amazon Cloud music locker beats all to the punch
Photo: ottonassar / Flickr The race has been on for some time to be the first major company to launch an online service for storing all of your own music and media, and streaming it from there. Many have called this a ...
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Micro-blogging and communication platform Twitter has seemingly swayed to pressures from governments across the world with today’s revelation that the service can – and will – now start censoring tweets on a country-by-country basis. (Read more…)
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The highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III will be unveiled later than expected, after reports emerged that the Korean consumer electronics maker would not use Mobile World Congress 2012 to show off their device. (Read more…)
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Apple Inc, the biggest technology company in the world by market capitilization, posted blowout Q1 2012 revenue figures. The company posted record revenue, record profit, record iPhone, record iPad and record Mac sales figures in a quarterly performance that topped even the guidance of the most optimistic analysts. (Read more…)
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Early reports indicate that the Nokia Microsoft is paying dividends, with nearly half of all second-generation Windows Phone 7 handsets sold being by the Finnish handset manufacturer. (Read more…)
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Following a week of high drama where the future of the internet as we know it was hanging in the balance due to the controversial SOPA/PIPA anti-piracy bills in the US, Y Combinator has sent out a request for startups with a focus on the media industry and with the intent to ‘Kill Hollywood’. (Read more…)
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During their surprisingly weak earnings call – falling short of the street’s expectations – Google revealed that Android’s unreal momentum is showing no signs of slowing any time soon. The company announced that the mobile OS platform has been activated on a quarter of a billion devices, with the number of applications downloaded soaring, too. Of those device activations, 3.7 million were activated on Christmas day alone. (Read more…)
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In a fascinating email sent to PandoDaily, the new tech site started by former TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacey, an unnamed but highly knowledgeable publishing executive admitted that the Amazon Kindle team was in the process of slowly killing all of the big publishers. The retail platform was achieving this by slowly pushing to become the content distributor and publisher all at the same time, by putting a financial squeeze on the already-struggling book publishers. (Read more…)
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Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s co-founder, former CEO, and long-term board member, has stepped down. He leaves the company during a period of protracted turmoil following the departure of CEO Carol Bartz and strained relations with the company’s very important (and lucrative) Asian wing. (Read more…)
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The long-rumoured – and frequently leaked – Sony Xperia S was finally revealed at CES 2012. In addition to finally being confirmed by Sony, the Android smartphone now has an official UK release date, as well as pricing guidance. (Read more…)
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Google’s Android mobile OS continues to grow at a torrid pace, having established itself as the number one mobile OS on the planet. This torrid growth, however, especially with numerous developers flocking to the frequently updating operating system has meant that design uniformity across applications has been a problem, at times. Google is attempting to remedy this through the unveiling of a site that will serve as an Android design style guide. (Read more…)
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US retail group Target has revealed an initiative that will see mini-Apple stores popping up within several key Target stores over the next several months. The announcement comes after reports leaked that the mega retailer was looking for ways to position itself as a premium retailer of Apple’s high selling products. (Read more…)
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The biggest names in the hotel and accommodation industry have joined forces to launch Roomkey, an online hotel search service for hotels and accommodation within their members’ networks. (Read more…)
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Speaking to reporters during a roundtable meeting, Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha revealed that his company would release fewer handsets in 2012 when compared to its release schedule from years prior. (Read more…)
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- Photo: Victorinox
CES 2012 is finally under way, and one of the biggest surprises of the event thus far comes courtesy of Victorinox, the guys behind the Swiss Army Knife. The company unveiled a pair of Swiss Army Knife-styled storage drives, one of which holds a capacity of 1TB. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: flash drive, USB 2.0, usb 3.0
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As CES finally arrives, many tech companies took the Sunday prior to the event kicking off to unveil their more ambitious projects. For Toshiba, that came in the form of the Toshiba Excite X10, the world’s thinnest 10-inch tablet PC. (Read more…)
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Pareto’s 80/20 principle holds in many environments. Sometimes the effect is greatly exaggerated, as evidenced by the distribution of mobile data usage. A recent study found that the ‘1 percent’ on mobile carriers used 50 percent of data, leaving 50 percent of data to the remaining 99 percent. (Read more…)
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