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Can Waze Save Apple Maps?

Comments | Chris Spera, BYTE | January 03, 2013 09:30 AM
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Incorporating Waze navigation and local search into Apple's Maps app and service would address many of the problems that have earned Apple its poor mapping reputation. Unfortunately for Android users, Apple would probably pull the plug on Waze use, or at least relegate them to second-class status. Read More >>

Commentary

Ubuntu For Phones: Beautiful, Elegant, Doomed

Comments | Serdar Yegulalp, BYTE | January 03, 2013 08:30 AM
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How good could an UbuntuPhone really be? It can't possibly be unique enough and have enough of a value proposition to break into a market that's already dominated by big, powerful players. Read More >>

Briefs

Le Great Apple Robbery

Comments | Larry Seltzer, BYTE | January 02, 2013 08:59 AM
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Armed robbers took advantage of New Years celebrations to attack a Paris Apple store, stealing up to $1.3 million (€1 million) in goods. Read More >>

Commentary

Windows 8 Tablet Launch #Fail

Comments | George Ou, BYTE | January 02, 2013 08:45 AM
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Microsoft Windows tablets, in spite of a superior Intel processor, suffer from hardware and software problems — and are overpriced. The PC industry seems to have a misguided notion that it doesn't need to compete on specs and price with the iPad 4 and Nexus 10. It's shocking that Microsoft spent three years producing an antiquated overpriced product such as the Surface while Apple and Google, including their partners, are producing superior products in 6-month cycles. Read More >>

Category: Tablets
ByteTv

BlackBerry 10 Will Be Great, Please Wait, Says RIM

Comments | Larry Seltzer, BYTE | December 31, 2012 09:20 AM
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With just about a month to go until the rollout of BlackBerry 10, RIM is reaching out to customers and the public about how great it will be, hoping, no doubt, that customers will hold off buying an iPhone or Android phone or Windows Phone. BlackBerry 10 could be the great, ironic BYOD product of 2013. Read More >>

News

Battery Life Boost Coming From New Antenna Tech

Comments | Serdar Yegulalp, BYTE | December 31, 2012 08:30 AM
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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 through heat. Large increases in battery life may be coming soon through new technology designed to use power for data transmission more efficiently. Read More >>

Category: Smartphones
Reviews

Nokia Lumia 810 A Win For T-Mobile

Comments | Larry Seltzer, BYTE | December 28, 2012 09:00 AM
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The Nokia Lumia 810 is an excellent, if not top-of-the-line Windows Phone available on T-Mobile. It's reasonably priced, has a top-notch camera and intriguing software, including two music apps that stream free tunes, "augmented reality" to show you what points of interest are right in front of you, and Nokia's highly-regarded maps. It also has a screen that's clearly a class or two below the best ones on the market, such as the iPhone 5. If you want a better screen on a Windows Phone, choose the Nokia 920 instead. Read More >>

Category: Smartphones
Commentary

iPhone Prices Under Competitive Pressure

Comments | Larry Seltzer, BYTE | December 27, 2012 12:13 PM
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Phone prices are being aggressively lowered by Apple's competition and Apple appears to be responding with price cuts, something we haven't seen before. Never mind that excellent Android and Windows Phones can be had for a lot less than the iPhone's $199 with a 2 year plan; more and more users are opting for older and cheaper iPhone models. The bottom line of all this is that Apple's average selling price for an iPhone is going down. Read More >>

Category: Smartphones
Commentary

China Tries Again To Control Internet

Comments | Larry Seltzer, BYTE | December 26, 2012 08:32 AM
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The Great Firewall of China is increasingly effective in stopping anonymous VPN-based access in and out of the country after a recent upgrade, and now the government is considering another attempt to strengthen authentication of users before obtaining Internet connections. The proposed law is being cynically framed as a privacy protection measure. As offended as I am at the ideas behind these proposals, I'm confident that they can't be implemented practically. Read More >>

News

Nexus 7 Android Tablets for Christmas At DoubleDutch

Comments | Boonsri Dickinson, BYTE | December 25, 2012 08:35 AM
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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 for the platform — not just for the iPad — and explained how enterprise app development is fundamentally changing the way enterprise business is done. Read More >>

ByteTv

As Mobile Work Rises, 9-to-5 Jobs Decline

Comments | Boonsri Dickinson, BYTE | December 24, 2012 09:05 AM
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Using mobile technology to arm mobile workers, services such as Exec, GigWalk, oDesk, and Uber, are changing the very nature of knowledge-based work. How will you cope? Read More >>

Commentary

Google/Motorola 'X phone' Tries To Push Tech Limits

Comments | Larry Seltzer, BYTE | December 24, 2012 09:02 AM
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Google and Motorola are trying to make the hottest phone on the market and running into the problems that kept everyone else from making such a phone, such as poor battery life. The way they're going about it suggests that Google does not have the clearest vision of what they want to do or how to do it. Read More >>

Category: Smartphones
News

iPhone 5 Sales Up, Price Down

Comments | Larry Seltzer, BYTE | December 21, 2012 01:22 PM
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A new research report shows Apple with a majority of the smartphone market in the United States, but lagging behind Samsung and other Android vendors abroad. In spite of U.S. dominance, Apple is allowing discounts to its newest iPhone. The same research shows Nokia's fortunes turning in Great Britain, although less so among younger buyers. Read More >>

Commentary

Android Fails in Mobile Malware Research

Comments | Larry Seltzer, BYTE | December 21, 2012 09:03 AM
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There are many more malware-infected Android devices out there than you might think. It's all because the Android ecosystem and Google Play store are more friendly to malware and exploits than iOS and the Apple App Store or Windows 8, Windows Phone and the Windows Store. There's some, but not much reason, to think things will improve for Android in the near future. Read More >>

Commentary

Apple Must Settle With Samsung

Comments | Larry Seltzer, BYTE | December 20, 2012 10:10 AM
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Apple Needs To Cut The Patent Nonsense. If Apple really thinks they need to sue the competition out of the market then they must think they're in worse shape than anyone else thinks. Recent legal setbacks, including the reexamination by the US Patent and Trademark Office of the 'pinch and zoom' and other patents, have the potential to embarrass Apple severely and embolden the competition. Now's the time to scale back in their settlement negotiations. Read More >>

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