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Amazon Joins the Event Party, 6 September for Kindle Fire 2 and, Perhaps, A Smartphone
It is officially party season for gadget lovers, as Amazon joins all the other major smartphone and tablet makers with an event to announce its latest wares, scheduled for early next month.
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iPhone 5 Likely To Go On-Sale 21 September
While it would be easier to get blood from a stone, than confirmation from Apple, all the ecosystem signs are now pointing to a 21 September launch for the next iPhone, with Verizon banning all sales staff holiday from that date until the end of the month.
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MS Office Web Apps Add Touch for iPad and Windows 8 Tablets
If you never thought you'd see MS Office running properly on an iPad, you were wrong. Microsoft has announced updates to its Web Office apps, bringing bigger buttons and full touch functionality to Apple's iPad and upcoming Windows 8 tablets.
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Adobe 2012 Mobile Survey Highlights the Rise of Mobile and the Demise of the User Experience
Results from Adobe’s recent 2012 Mobile Consumer Survey show that consumers are using their smartphones and tablet devices to connect with brands in a variety of ways. However, many companies aren’t yet providing optimized experiences that leverage these different devices.
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Pinterest Evolves for the Mobile User with iPad and Android Versions
With the tablet market about to go into overdrive, Pinterest has updated its mobile apps to offer distinct iPad and Android versions, to cater for those shiny new media-rich screens. Pinning Is Winning With Pinterest's phenomenal growth, the service is making new users and friends at a huge rate.
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Gartner: Samsung Still King of Phone Sales
Samsung continues to lead Apple in worldwide sales of mobile phones. That’s one of the findings in the new Gartner report, which covers the second quarter and was released Tuesday. While total sales of mobile phones to end users declined 2.
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ComScore Unveils Users' Wants and Love for Their Tablets
You can keep your market statistics tables and sector share pie charts, the true measure of a tablet is how much an owner loves it. And ComScore reckons most users love their tablets very much indeed, but which comes out the best? The Eye of the Beholder When it comes
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Samsung Launching Two Galaxy Note Tablets this August
Apple is set to make a device announcement in September, which is rumored to be either the iPhone 5 or the iPad Mini. Not to be outdone, Samsung has confirmed two new products in its Galaxy Note line, which will compete against Apple's flagship iOS offerings.
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Apple Ditching YouTube App From iOS 6
Since the launch of the very first iPhone, the YouTube app has sat proudly on the front screen, eager to play the latest video content. That all changes as Apple cuts it from the smartphone, for various reasons, in the upcoming iOS 6.0.
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Amazon Adds Game Development to its Content Arsenal
Not satisfied with selling books, video content, music and physical goods, Amazon has opened up its own Game Studios to provide entertainment for Facebook, and probably the Kindle Fire and other devices.
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Windows Phone 8 Nearly Complete, New Nokia Devices to be Unveiled Soon
After the recent excitement over the completion of the Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft should have the smartphone version done in the next few weeks, with Nokia expected to announce new devices for a coordinated launch later in the year.
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Windows 8 Finished, on the Road to Launch
Windows 8 has been declared RTM, or released to manufacturing, by Microsoft, sending it to the hundreds of hardware partners for installation and testing on their PCs, notebooks and tablets. But what does the road to launch look like for businesses and developers? Job Done...
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Let Battle Commence, Tablet and Smartphone Giants to Collide This Fall
With a likely September launch for the next iPhone and perhaps a mini iPad, Windows 8 launching with an armada of hardware in October, and Amazon to unveil a Kindle Fire 2 for the holidays, get ready for the most intense consumer battle in recent years.
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Apple, Google, Microsoft in Bidding War for Kodak Patents
Kodak may have seen its glory days flutter by, but the company is now the subject of what may be a multi-billion dollar bidding war for intellectual property pertaining to mobile imaging.
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