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Smartphones, Tablets Threat to Enterprise Security
If you use your smartphone and tablet for work-related tasks, you're not alone. Enterprises are increasingly adopting "bring your own device" policies in the workplace.
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Apple's Big Numbers as Everyone Expects a Monster Q1
Apple is expected to break all records in its latest quarter with massive sales of iPhones and iPads, and the promise of more hot releases in the year ahead. The numbers are in and, with hopes of a $40 billion quarter, Apple demolished expectations with $46 billion in revenue.
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RIM Management Shuffle May Offer BlackBerry a New Direction
By sneaking out the news of the dumping of its leading board members between the two NFL championship games, RIM seems to be suggesting it wants to undertake its future plans in a quiet, unassuming manner. Good luck with that, as its possible savior, the "London" BB10 phone sneaks into view.
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Apple Closed the Android Gap With iPhone 4S
The numbers are in and the fall 2011 launch of Apple's 4S iPhone mid-life upgrade proved to be enough to propel the iOS platform to near parity with Android's dominant marketshare.
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Mobile Roundup: Black Days for RIM as Galaxy Nexus Arrives and iPhone 5 Looms
RIM has announced its depressing latest figures, but there's still hope within the company for a brighter 2012, despite having to battle a growing roster of Android and Apple (who just had a nasty iCloud wobble) super phones.
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Android Market Passes 10 Billion Downloads, Offers Discounted Apps
Google has reason to celebrate, with Android Market breaching the 10 billion app download mark. To celebrate, Android developers are offering 10-cent downloads for select premium applications on a limited time basis. Android is growing fast. Not only is the application ecosystem growing at a rapid rate (now 1 million apps among iOS,
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IBM Offers Social Apps for Apple, Android, BlackBerry Tablets
IBM has already staked its claim in the mobile arena with a number of social apps for the smartphone. And while these apps work just fine on the tablet, they don't take advantage of the UI and unique capabilities tablets offer. Which is why IBM has introduced tablet versions of
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Mobile Apps Approach One Million Milestone
Word on the street is the humble app, which turned the cell phone into an all-purpose Super Smart Phone device, is getting close to the 1 million milestone.
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Social Radio Blends Twitter With Your Playlists
Start-up The Social Radio is offering an Android app (with iOS and BlackBerry to follow) that reads out your choice of tweet streams between your own music to make it easier to follow what's going on when you can't read them directly.
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RIM to Offer Enterprise-Grade Security for iPhone, Android
Android and iOS are undoubtedly today's most popular smartphone and tablet platforms. Not wanting to be left behind in the game, RIM -- creators of BlackBerry devices and enterprise server systems -- is introducing Mobile Fusion, which can help IT departments manage their mobile deployments, regardless of platform.
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday: Rise of the Tablet
If you had little doubt what the most sought-after gadget was over the Thanksgiving break, the stats shows that tablets were the hottest ticket in town. Both online and in-store sales were through the roof as people seem hooked on tablets.
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Opera Mini 6.5 Available, Saves Up to 90% of Mobile Data Usage
Smartphones and tablets are now a mainstay in the enterprise setting, and yet most carriers are moving toward capped bandwidth plans rather than unlimited schemes. With media-rich websites resulting in soaring data costs, a business' or user's best bet is to minimize data consumption through compression. The Opera Mini 6.
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RIM Announces Updates to BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Effort; No Native BBM in Sight
Research-in-Motion, developer of the BlackBerry smartphone and tablet platform, has provided updates to its development of the next-generation PlayBook tablet operating system. It seems the much-awaited native support for BlackBerry Messaging has been left out in this update.
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RIM Offers BlackBerry BBX Roadmap for Mobile Software Development
At DevCon Americas in San Francisco, Research in Motion (RIM) announced its next-generation mobile software development platform dubbed BlackBerry BBX, a marriage between the BlackBerry OS and the QNX real-time operating system meant to springboard the company forward in enterprise mobile computing.
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