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Google Feathers its Nest with New Developer Program
If Google-owned Nest’s announcement yesterday that it was buying Dropcam for $555 million caused some surprise, today’s announcement that it is opening up its platform to third-party developers, while not as in-you-face as the Dropcam deal, could have significantly more long-term effects.
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Nest Buys Dropcam as Google Continues March Into Smart Homes
No sooner had news of the deal emerged than questions about information, privacy and Google started to appear. However, representatives from Dropcam said this is a straightforward deal and that Google will not be getting its hands on anyone’s data.
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Mobile Connections in 2014: Flexible Smartphones, Other Technologies
Mobile commerce has gone from a theoretical possibility to a practical imperative. Marketers don't have to look any further than the statistics from Black Friday to understand that. But how you reach your customer on their smartphones is an ever changing game.
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LG Launches the G2 Learning Smartphone for the High-End
Knocking around in the fight for the number three smartphone market spot for some time, will the new G2 propel LG into the limelight? Or is the high end market no longer where its at for the majority of buyers.
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Samsung Dominates In Smartphones but Market Share is Falling
Samsung's market share is pretty much out of reach now, with its huge device range, but Apple's profits remain untouchable, even as the little guys start to crank up the sales.
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webOS' Death Is Greatly Exaggerated - LG Wants It to Live Again, Inside TVs
When HP dropped its TouchPad tablet and focused its consumer products on Android and Windows, the accompanying webOS platform went into limbo. Now, there are reports that LG has bought the OS -- and is readying it for use in a new generation of TV sets.
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RIM Axing up to 40% of Workforce to Focus on BlackBerry 10
It seems only a few years ago that every person in a suit was using a BlackBerry, typing away with their thumbs. Now, can the company survive to see BB10 reach those loyal suits as massive cuts loom and executives leave.
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Ready or Not, Apple HDTVs Are Coming To Take the TV Market By Storm
Regardless of whether the end users are there to buy them, if content producers will play ball or if Apple needs to risk huge capital in making them, it seems the company is starting early production with its Chinese partners of HDTV sets, as polls suggest current iOS
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Enjoy 2012's Smartphone Catwalk From Mobile World Congress
The term "smartphone" just doesn't do the category justice now, as the world's biggest mobile show in Barcelona is being used to unveil a host of super-computers in your hand, radical redesigns, media super-devices (like a 41 megapixel camera) and much more.
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Windows Phone 7's Mango Update Hits RTM, Launching September
Windows desktop OS updates used to be celebrated like the second coming, how will Microsoft's (news, site) mobile offerings fare? Mango vs. Apple The Mac company has become the undoubted king of OS updates with its desktop and mobile refreshes treated as major events, splashed across the
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4G Networks Herald the Arrival of Proper Mobile Data
As 4G networks from Verizon (news, site) roll out in major metropolises, getting access to -- and marketing your data as -- on-the-go is now a realistic possibility. Is Evolution Revolution? Long Term Evolution has long been touted as the wireless broadband solution of the future.
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Novell's Open Workgroup Exposes Open Source to Microsoft
Yesterday Novell announced the upcoming availability of Open Workgroup, the first workgroup suite for small businesses that provides flexy solutions based on "proven" open source -based software.
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Linux Unites: Microsoft, Prepare to Meet Thy Maker
Bullies can only survive so long -- and like some Marxist fantasia, particularly debauched, abusive bullies are known for awakening the revolutionary ire of those who, en masse, could easily spell tyranny's downfall. The context is set. Now for the major players.
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Microsoft, LG Join Hands in Turbulent Waters
In a mad dash to keep its bases covered in the volatile OSS and virtualization frontiers, Microsoft has developed a cross-license patent agreement with LG Electronics. The announcement comes just days after it released news of a similar agreement with Xandros. General Manager David Kaefer of IP licensing at Microsoft
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