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  • TomTom Rolls Out Places App in More Countries

    Posted on October 25, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Rightmove Responds To Android Growth With New Mobile Site

    Posted on September 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Rightmove has launched a new mobile website (mSite), following the success of its number one ranked iPhone app, in response to the growing opportunity amongst users of Android phones and other mobile operating systems. The new mSite, uses HTML5 coding allowing it to replicate the...

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  • USAA Deposit@Mobile® Exceeds All Expectations

    Posted on July 16, 2010 | No Comments
    SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Less than one year from its launch, USAA’s revolutionary Deposit@Mobile® has seen more than 1.5 million checks deposited from a mobile device, totaling more than $928 million....

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  • Forrester Projects Tablets Will Outsell Netbooks By 2012, Desktops By 2013

    Forrester Projects Tablets Will Outsell Netbooks By 2012, Desktops By 2013

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    The tablet era has just begun, but Forrester Research is already predicting tablet sales in the U.S. will overtake netbook sales by 2012, and desktop sales by 2015. At the Untethered conference today in New York City, Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps laid out her projections comparing tablet sales to netbooks, laptops, and desktops. She expects 3.5 million tablets (including the iPad and other tablets) to be sold this year, growing to 20.4 million in 2015. Meanwhile, she expects desktop sales to drop from 18.7 million units in 2010 to 15.7 million units in 2015. As a percentage of overall PC sales, tablets will grow from 6 percent this year to 18 percent in 2012 (when netbooks are estimated to account for 17 percent of sales. The next year, in 2013, tablet sales are projected to outstrip desktop unit sales, 21 percent to 20 percent. By 2015, tablets will make up 23 percent of PC sales in the U.S., while desktops will be 18 percent and netbooks will be 17 percent. Only laptops will sell more in the U.S., with a 42 percent market share.

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  • Report: Fujitsu and Toshiba to merge cell phone operations

    Report: Fujitsu and Toshiba to merge cell phone operations

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Big news from the Japanese cell phone industry today: Two of Japan's top handset makers, namely Fujitsu and Toshiba, are in talks to merge their cell phone operations within this year. According to the Nikkei ("Japan's Wall Street Journal" and usually a reliable source), negotiations already reached the "final stage". The joint venture, if it happens, will create Japan's second largest cell phone maker (with a combined 18.7% domestic market share), following Sharp (26.1%). Fujitsu (the current No. 3 among Japan's handset makers with over 5 million handsets shipped in 2009) is expected to become the main stakeholder in the joint venture. Toshiba is the eighth biggest (1.28 million units).

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  • What happened to the iPad today? A few small things

    What happened to the iPad today? A few small things

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    The iPad just sold 2 million units in two months, a pretty huge number for a device with no track record and it does, in fact, get girls interested in you. The device is in 10 countries today and will be in 19 in July. There are also 8,500 native iPad apps available now. There [...]

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  • Layar debuts new augmented reality browser, bets big on content discovery

    Layar debuts new augmented reality browser, bets big on content discovery

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Layar is today unveiling the latest iteration of its Reality Browser product (3.5), starting with an Android version, with an iPhone 3GS app update scheduled for later. With the new version of the browser, users can now easily discover and experience Augmented Reality without the need to enter a search query or open a specific layer. This means users can instantly see the most interesting content nearby upon launching the browser, effectively turning it into a potent location-based search and discovery service with an augmented reality element attached to it rather than the other way around.

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  • Vodafone UK ships the world’s first Bada phone, the Samsung Wave

    Vodafone UK ships the world’s first Bada phone, the Samsung Wave

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    And we're off! Without all that much fanfare following the announcement of Samsung's smartphone operating system, Bada, the first Bada-powered handset has shipped.

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  • UK misses out on Nike World Cup ad, Rooney red-hot with anger (maybe)

    UK misses out on Nike World Cup ad, Rooney red-hot with anger (maybe)

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    That Nike World Cup ad I mentioned the other day has aired, I think, 800 million times over the past few days on TV. I know I saw it at least once during the Champions League final at the weekend (which Inter thoroughly deserved to win). But get this: the very first time the ad aired in the UK the final six seconds of the ad never made it on the air! Someone's getting fired...

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  • iSuppli finds worldwide cellphone shipments are up 13.8 percent, Motorola’s share slipping

    iSuppli finds worldwide cellphone shipments are up 13.8 percent, Motorola’s share slipping

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    We've already seen Motorola's market share slip a bit when it comes to US cellphone shipments, and it looks like the news is even worse for the company on a global scale. According to iSuppli's latest numbers -- which back up some earlier reports -- while worldwide cellphone shipments rose a healthy 13.8 percent in the first quarter of 2010, Motorola slipped from sixth to eighth spot in the global rankings, selling a total of 8.5 million phones compared to 14.7 million during the same period a year earlier. As you can see in the helpful chart above (with sales indicated in thousands), Motorola's loss came largely at the expense of considerable gains from market leaders Nokia and Samsung, with LG, RIM and Apple also seeing some smaller but significant gains. And, yes, this news also means that Motorola is also now in a neck and neck race with ZTE, for what it's worth.

    [Thanks, Katie]

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  • Sales of netbooks and CULV notebooks expected to increase this year

    Sales of netbooks and CULV notebooks expected to increase this year

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    It looks like people are still buying computers. Research firm iSuppli Corp believes that netbooks and Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage (CULV) notebooks are poised for significant growth in 2010. Notebook PC shipments overall are expected to hit 209.5 million this year, up 25.5% from last year. In particular, sales of netbooks, or smaller and cheaper versions of a notebook, are expected to grow 30% to 34.5 million units. Meanwhile, CULV notebooks are expected to reach sales of 14.5 million units this year, a whopping 93% increase.

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  • New Details On iPad’s International Rollout

    New Details On iPad’s International Rollout

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Relax Apple fanboys of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, your iPad will be available in stores May 28. Apple, as previously announced, will take pre-orders starting May 10. The next countries on deck, for a July release, is Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore. Local pricing will be disclosed at a later date. The international release of the iPad has been delayed due to heavy domestic demand, according to Apple. Latest stats: over one million sold, 12 million apps downloaded, and more than 1.5 million ebooks sold.

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  • Apple beats Moto

    Apple beats Moto

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Well if that don't beat all. Apple sold 8.8 million iPhones while Motorola sold 8.5 million last quarter. The crazy part is that those are all, obviously, iPhones while Motorola's entire line consists of smart and feature phones. Including Droid and Devour. 9to5 notes:
    Apple has eclipsed Motorola as the biggest mobile phone maker in the US, while fresh research tells us iPhone-driven global smartphone sales grew 50 per cent in the first quarter. Meanwhile, over half a million iPhones sold in just five months in South Korea.

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  • PS3 Linux class action lawsuit coming at ya

    PS3 Linux class action lawsuit coming at ya

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Looks like Sony now finds itself on the business end of a class-action lawsuit. You'll recall that a recent PS3 firmware update removed the "Other OS" option from the console, preventing owners from installing Linux (which was one of the selling points when the PS3 first came out in 2006). The removal upset one California gentleman, who filed suit with the note "Sony's decision to force users to disable the Other OS function was based on its own interest and was made at the expense of its customers."

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  • Maido-kun: Japan plans to send humanoid to the moon by 2015

    Maido-kun: Japan plans to send humanoid to the moon by 2015

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Japan loves robots, we know that much. Last year, the Japanese government announced it plans to to send a robot to the moon by 2020 (that was to be joined by a human astronaut 10 years later). Today, the Osaka-based "Space Oriented Higashiosaka Leading Association" (SOHLA) announced [JP, PDF] a quite similar undertaking: putting a robot on the moon by 2015.

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