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Dobri’s Ratings The real credit ratings… Uncensored analysis commentary…
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Published by Steve Litchfield at 8:31 UTC, April 26th 2012 I’ve commented before on the size of Symbian’s installed base of active users, pointing out that it’s larger than most industry commentators would have conceived. However, with Symbian smartphone sales on something of a decline in recent months and with Android device sales still rising, [...]
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Tech blogging site The Verge points out that Google had forecast that by the end of 2010, it would have activated 40 million Android-based smartphones that would pull in $278.1 million in revenue. Of the projected revenue, $158.9 million would have come from ads while $3.8 million would have come from app sales. Google expected [...]
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April 26th, 2012, 09:00 GMT · By Filip Truta
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With over 550,000 apps on the Apple App Store, getting noticed becomes increasingly difficult. Is the app “Gold Rush”, as Steve Jobs put it, about to end? We don’t think so. Finally there is a cost-effective way for developers to increase their market reach. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) April 26, 2012 Lumen Spark today released Alau.me, [...]
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This may be a minority viewpoint — in fact, I’m positive it’s a minority viewpoint — but I get far more excited about new versions of Apple’s iOS than I do about new iPhones and iPads. There’s only so much Apple can do to reinvent hardware that will always consist of thin slabs of glass [...]
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Despite the best efforts of Google and the Android Axis, Apple continues to dominate the U.S. market for smartphones. Based on the Q1 financial reports from Sprint, Verizon and ATT, Raymond James analyst Tavis McCourt estimates that Apple had 59% of the U.S. smartphone market from the country’s top three carriers in the quarter. That [...]
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If Oracle succeeds in enforcing its hold on Java APIs, the software industry will drown in shameless legal challenges Follow @BSnyderSF I like being a contrarian, and I had hoped that a morning spent watching the Oracle/Google trial here in San Francisco would convince me that it’s been overhyped and not worth the worry. No [...]
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Three years ago, shortly after Microsoft announced that it would launch its own retail stores, I offered the company some unsolicited advice: Copy Apple “relentlessly, unabashedly, and completely.” At the time, Microsoft was still the world’s largest technology company. While it had clearly lost its mid-‘90s mojo, it still seemed unlikely that it would slip [...]
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Yesterday we attended mobile hackathon sponsored by Microsoft and PhoneGap. The goal was to build a PhoneGap app and install in on Windows Phone. We used Tiggzi App Builder, PhoneGap Build and very quickly installed an app on Windows Phone. Thanks to @jccim for inviting us and giving us a brand new Windows Phone for [...]
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Anyone who uses smartphones knows that having an ecosystem that offers the most popular mobile applications is a necessity. Well, with Windows Phone being so new, it has an uphill climb to amass the large number of apps that mega mobile operating systems like Android and iOS make available. Despite its small number of apps, [...]
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IDG News Service - Windows Phone can now be targeted by PhoneGap Build, a cloud-based service for creating cross-platform mobile phone apps, according to a Tuesday blog post from Nitobi, the service’s creators. Developers first write their applications using HTML, CSS or JavaScript then upload the code to the Build service, which sends back apps [...]
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Is 2012 the year app stores will break out in the enterprise? The environment is certainly ripe for it. Over the past two years, there has been a proliferation of employees using smartphones and tablets to do work and more enterprises are implementing BYOD (bring our own device) programs that allow employees to use personal [...]
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Modest specs likely aimed at developing market Previously photographed for T-Mobile’s UK website, the speculation over the upcoming Blackberry Curve 9320 is over. The specifications of the phone have been revealed by Vietnamese mobile-centric website Sohoa, with the phone already confirmed for India and the UK sometime next month. The Blackberry OS 7.1 phone has [...]
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Developers can upload their code to the cloud-based service and get back mobile apps for Windows Phone, iOS, and Android Windows Phone can now be targeted by PhoneGap Build, a cloud-based service for creating cross-platform mobile phone apps, according to a blog post from Nitobi, the service’s creators. Developers first write their applications using HTML, [...]
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Star Arcade is an ambitious company. Begun in 2010 by a group of friends hailing from Lagos, Finland and the UK, its aim is nothing less than to unify the global mobile and social gaming communities. The international team has spent the last two years working hard to provide a venue by which gamers from [...]
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Video News App Offers Unique Multisource Perspectives from News Sources Around the World Columbia, MO (PRWEB) March 27, 2012 Today, Newsy is announcing the availability of its app for Windows Phone and for Nokia’s Symbian and MeeGo operating systems. With remarkably fast video download speeds, the Newsy app is intuitive and easy to use. Users [...]
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Nokia’s rather painful public transformation continues. The latest quarterly figures are incoming, and the company is warning of a 3% loss over the first three months of the year – worse than the already bleak -2% to break even ballpark previously expected. In terms of handset sales, the Windows Phone revolution continues at a decidedly [...]
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The Facebook app for Windows Phone is certainly serviceable, but it’s never really been anything to get excited about. In fact, it wasn’t really something you looked forward to using and it’s been slow to add the features considered standard on competing mobile platforms. Well, with the soon to land version 2.5, that capability gap [...]
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April 25th, 2012, 09:36 GMT · By Cosmin Vasile