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Samsung Stretches Smartphone Market Lead, Celebrates With Record Quarter
The latest IDC figures show the South Korean company moving further ahead of Apple, at the same time as Samsung reports another record quarter. The Samsung Way In their own ruthless ways, Samsung and Apple continue to carve up the smartphone and tablet markets between them.
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Amazon Gets Talkative With Ivona Text-to-Speech Acquisition
The latest company to invest in voice, Amazon already uses Ivona's technology in its Kindle Fire audio reader, but will look to challenge Siri and Samsung's S Voice in future products by acquiring the Polish company. Talk To Me Even the quick demo on the front page of Ivona's site
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Apple Earns $13.1 Billion in First Quarter Profits, Sells 75 Million iOS Devices
On sales of 47.8 million iPhones and 22 million iPads, Apple has recorded $54.5 billion in revenue and $13.1 billion in profit in a single quarter. By the Numbers The numbers are in and the Apple bandwagon continues to roll on, with little sign of a slowdown. As discussed earlier
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High Telco iPhone Sales Could Help Apple's Earnings
The knives have been well and truly out for Apple ahead of today's earnings call, with analysts predicting relatively weak numbers.
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Android Dominates Burgeoning US Smartphone Market
Android was the dominant smartphone operating system in the US during Q3 2012 according to data from Nielsen, commanding 52 percent of the market. This put Android substantially ahead of any other smartphone OS, including Apple, which held 35 percent of the market.
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Apple Sees Almost 20 Billion App Downloads in 2012
If you're wondering just how big the potential for apps is, Apple has seen users download 40 billion apps since the arrival of its App Store, with nearly half of those being grabbed in 2012.
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Will 2013 Be the Year that HTML5 Takes Over?
What does 2013 hold for the future of HTML5? If predictions by industry analysts are correct, mobile will be its calling card. And rightly so -- HTML5 has the power to help smartphones, feature phones, tablets, notebooks, desktop PCs, televisions and vehicles come together through cloud services.
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Canonical's Ubuntu for Smartphones - A Mobile Interface to a Unified Platform
If you were releasing a new mobile platform these days, what would be your big differentiator? London-based Canonical has decided that its new Ubuntu for smartphones, announced this week, will be a “smartphone interface” that includes phones, tablets, desktops, televisions and the cloud.
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Samsung's New Tablets, Notebooks and HDTVs to Dominate at CES 2013
2013 gets under way for gadget lovers with a raft of new computers, TVs and tablets coming, plus a host of web-enabled smart devices for the home being shown at CES, with Samsung leading the way in many categories.
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Appcelerator Reports: Not all Mobile Devices Expected to Have a Good 2013
With the release of its "IDC Q4 2012 Mobile Developer Report," Appcelerator has announced its mobile predictions for 2013 that stem from trends during the latter half of 2012. A mobile development platform, Appcelerator and the International Data Corporation (IDC), surveyed 2,837 of Appcelerator Titanium developers from November 15 to
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RIM Treads Water as First Images of the BlackBerry Z10 Appear
In a mixed day of news for RIM, the company lost customers, made a small profit and beat street estimates, but proved that pretty much no mobile company can keep a secret as the name and image of its upcoming BB10 phone appeared online.
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2013 Predictions: Smartphones and Tablets, What Would an iPhone 6 or Galaxy S4 Look Like?
CMSWire peers into the magic crystal ball to see what's coming from the likes of Apple, Samsung, Nokia, Microsoft and RIM in the coming year. Return of the RIM Having just reviewed 2012, the first big act of 2013 is already pretty much set in stone.
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[Infographic] Mobile in 2012
Looking back, as we do in December, it's hard to imagine what life would have been like had there been no mobile. During 2012, our smartphones became smarter, faster, slimmer. Tablets multiplied. Operating systems expanded.
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Samsung Dominates Apple and Smartphone Sales in 2012
The latest set of market figures show Samsung knocking Nokia off the top of the mobile phone charts, and setting a sizeable lead over Apple in smartphones. Big Bang Sales Theory Having just looked back at 2012 in mobile, the final numbers for the year are starting to appear.
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