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Google Sells More Ads Quicker in Q3
If Google has been struggling to find a solution to falling mobile advertising prices, it appears to have found a solution this quarter: sell more ads and sell them quicker. It may seem simple, but it has taken Google a while to come up with it.
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Google Blows Nexus 5 Reveal with Own Site Listing
While Apple gets the foreign factories to do most of its leaking, Google is happy to do the work itself, with a brief appearance on the Google Play store of a Nexus 5 offering.
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Apple Confirms iPad Unveiling Event for Next Week
Apple has confirmed that it will host an event next week where we will likely see the new iPad models unveiled alongside new Mac models with OS X Mavericks.
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Android TV to Replace Google TV in Battle For the Smart Set
While smartphones and tablets have exploded, the smart TV concept has struggled. Sure, people are buying sets, but those extra features and apps have been overlooked thanks to niche stores, complex menus and other customer experience issues.
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Smartphones Grow Curves With the Galaxy Round
In vendors' increasingly desperate attempts to differentiate smartphones, we've seen them get larger, smaller, thinner and now curvier, thanks to Samsung's efforts with flexible displays. But what are the advantages of a curved-screen in a smartphone.
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iOS 7.0.2 Goes Live to Close the Passcode Bypass
A modest iOS update follows in the wake of all last week's hoopla, fixing some of the more glaring security issues with Apple's new smartphone operating system. We're Closing the Bypass Last week's launch of iOS 7 was very much like Freshers week, with new users stumbling around the halls
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Microsoft Launching Surface 2, Has It Learnt From RT's Failure?
The imminent arrival of Windows 8.1 will make the company's new tablet computing devices more usable. But Microsoft's hardware updates won't radically change the money-losing Surface proposition in a market that fails to see keyboards and me-too apps as a major differentiator.
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Harmon.ie Offers Android App For Office 365, Says BYOD Is Failing
harmon.ie says BYOD strategies are failing. This is how it helps resolve that challenge. It’s a simple idea, but one that is bound to be popular with Android users. Harmon.ie has just announced the release of a new app that will enable Android devices users work in Office 365 and SharePoint from anywhere.
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IDC: Smartphones Ship A Billion Units, Microsoft to See Maker Interest Decline
Mobile phones of all kinds are rebounding, with strong growth in 2013 and with smartphone shipments exceeding one billion units for the first time in a single year. Windows Phone is solidifying its third-place position among mobile operating systems, even as non-Microsoft handset makers will likely become less interested.
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Samsung's Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Packs in the Apps, Arriving 25 September
Whatever the high hopes for smartwatch technology, first impressions suggest the world isn't quite ready for Star Trek level tech yet, with another Android-based device failing to inspire as the Gear and S Voice technology offer limited interaction and camera capabilities.
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Watch Samsung Unveil the Galaxy Gear Live at Unpacked 2 from IFA Berlin
Samsung takes its shot at smartwatch fame, unveiling the Galaxy Gear and launching several other devices at its second Unpacked event of 2013 from IFA Berlin. You can watch the livestream here.
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Apple Confirms iPhone 5S September 10 Reveal, As Android Goes KitKat Flavored
Remember Apple doubling down on secrecy, that really worked well didn't it, so let's all pretend that the September 10 iPhone and iOS 7 launch date is a shock. What is rather more surprising is Google's choice of flavor for the next Android version.
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Smartwatch Roundup: Galaxy Gear Could Lack Juice as Google Prepares Its Own Watch
Whatever it looks like, and whatever tech is inside it, Samsung looks like getting a march on most rivals with its smartwatch. But early hints suggest the combination of screen, radios and apps make for a battery hog, while Google has acquired quietly to develop its own product.
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Mobile Roundup, Apple iPhone Trade-Ins, Samsung Galaxy Gear and Note III Event Confirmed
Apple is trying to make it easier to upgrade to the new iPhone with trade-in deals likely though Apple Stores while Samsung's new smartwatch is ticking down for a major launch event.
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