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Battery Life Boost Coming From New Antenna Tech

The amplifier for the data transmission on a mobile phone's antenna is the device's biggest power guzzler, wasting up to 65 percent of its juice...

Nexus 7 Android Tablets for Christmas At DoubleDutch

Why did the founder of Mobile CRM company DoubleDutch give his employees Android Nexus 7 Tablets for XMas? He wanted to inspire them to develop...

iPhone 5 Sales Up, Price Down

A new research report shows Apple with a majority of the smartphone market in the United States, but lagging behind Samsung and other Android...

Samsung Acknowledges Severe Android Vulnerability

A serious vulnerability in the Android kernel for their Exynos processors in many of their phones, including the Samsung Galaxy S3, has been found...

Apple Motion To Ban Samsung Products Denied

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ruled that the jury finding against Samsung for violating Apple patents did not merit enjoining sale of the products,...

iPhone 5 On Discount At Wal-Mart

$127 gets you a 16GB iPhone 5 at certain Wal-Mart stores, but not online, for the next 30 days. The cut-rate strategy, arranged with Apple's...

Microsoft Surface Doesn't Impress Mobile Developers Says Survey

A survey by IDC and tool company Appcelerator finds that most mobile developers are not 'very interested' in writing apps for Windows 8 or Windows...

Resale Sites For Gadgets Flourish

The flood of new electronics from Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and others creates a secondary market for resale of the buyers' old devices. eBay,...

Microsoft Issues First Surface Security Patch

Today is Patch Tuesday and the first security vulnerability fix from Microsoft for the Surface running Windows RT is out. The bug is in Internet...

US Mobile Carriers To Enable Texting To 9-1-1

Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile have agreed to make nationwide SMS (texting) to 9-1-1 possible by 2014. This is a move to improve E9-1-1...

Yerdle: Share Online Rather Than Shop

Startup Yerdle lets you trade stuff with Facebook friends. By extending the lives of things by giving them a place to be found on the Internet,...

Citrix Acquires MDM Vendor Zenprise

Citrix will acquire mobile security company Zenprise, the two companies announced Wednesday. Zenprise is one of the largest mobile device...

Android "Clear Leader" In Smartphone Race Says Report

Android leads the smart phone market with a 68.3% share, followed by the iPhone at only 18.8%, according to IDC's quarterly worldwide mobile phone...

US Twitter Users Not Vulnerable To SMS Spoof

A vulnerability in Twitter would allow spoofed posts to a user's account if the account were enabled for SMS updates. Twitter said Tuesday that...

Unlocked iPhone 5 For Sale At Apple

You can now buy an iPhone 5 from Apple with no carrier contract committment. There is no CDMA support and what LTE support they have is unclear....

911 Centers Not Ready For Mobile App Era

Some of the latest public safety apps offer to let you send texts, photos and even videos to 911 centers. There's just one problem: They don't...

Microsoft Reveals Details of Intel-Based Surface

The Surface tablet with Windows 8 Pro from Microsoft will look like the ARM-based Surface RT, only slightly thicker and heavier. On the other...

Windows 8 Enterprise Antivirus Market Starts Off Slow

Test lab AV-Test finds only 6 corporate antimalware / endpoint protection solutions for enterprises. By contrast, they count 60 consumer...

Is Apple Maps Salvageable?

Apple is dealing with the crappy mapping launch by firing the manager in charge of the software. But can this repair the damage that is already...

Microsoft To Support Surface RT Into 2017

Microsoft's official support lifecycle for Surface with Windows RT hardware ends 4/11/2017. They have not yet announced the end of support for the...



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