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Internal Google e-mails shed light on the importance of location data for the company, underscoring the stakes in the recent privacy controversy over mobile positioning privacy. The e-mails, unearthed as part of a ongoing lawsuit between the Mountain View, Calif.-based company and Skyhook over location data services, underline the company’s need for location data as [...]
Archive for May 2nd, 2011
HTC Surges on Android, Says More to Come
May 2nd, 2011 
admin HTC reported massive profits for the first quarter and predicted more of the same for the second as the company’s fortunes soar with the rise of smartphones, and Android in particular. The Taiwan-based company reported a tripling in earnings over a year ago for the first quarter as consumers snapped up the five smartphones it [...]
People Drowning in Information Flood, Study Says
May 2nd, 2011 admin People aren’t coping well with an ever-growing deluge of online data, a study finds, suggesting that technology’s frenetic pace has surpassed our human ability to keep up. The “Digital Lifestyle Information Survey 2011,” found that people like journalists, techies and professionals are sacrificing sleep, relationships and peace of mind to stay connected in this digital [...]
Microsoft Piggybacks on Apple Apps
May 2nd, 2011 admin Microsoft has made it easier to port Apple iOS apps to its Windows Phone 7 platform, in an effort to increase its app library in the face of iOS’s and Android’s wider selections. The new service, logically called the iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool, acts as a kind of translator that turns [...]
Conan O’Brien Helps You Tell Facebook Friends What You Really Think
May 2nd, 2011 admin Facebook postings just got a little bit more offensive, thanks to Conan O’Brien’s new “F*Cards,” adding a funny new twist to the ever-changing types of communications that Facebook offers. The talk show host is offering a series of video greeting cards produced exclusively for online fans for posting to friends’ Facebook walls. There are 25 [...]
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No Comments »App Downloads to Hit 44 Billion by 2016
May 2nd, 2011 admin Smartphone and tablet users will download 44 billion apps by 2016, according to new estimates, as the market for task-based, mobile computing shows no sign of slowing down. Demand for apps will continue to increase from the about 15 million three years ago, according to ABI Research’s five-year forecast. If the New York-based research firm [...]
Motorola to Release More Atrix-Style Docks
May 2nd, 2011 admin Motorola will release more smartphone/laptop-dock combo devices like the Atrix, expanding a new product category that could compete with tablets. “You will see multiple devices from us in the second half and we will expand the range of our lap-dock devices so we cover a broader pricepoint, addressing both enterprise tiers as well as more [...]
Google Ranks First in Reputation Survey
May 2nd, 2011 admin Google ranks highest in a corporate reputation survey, suggesting the company’s success with its online infrastructure program is working well, and the flap over recent privacy issues isn’t yet penetrating. The Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant was ranked in first place as the U.S.’ most reputable company, in Harris Interactive’s in twelfth annual survey of [...]
RIM BlackBerry Bold (9900) Phone (T-Mobile)
May 2nd, 2011 admin The RIM BlackBerry Bold 9900 features a 2.8-inch touch screen with a trademark QWERTY keyboard. It runs on a 1.2-gigahertz processor with NFC-capabilities to use the phone as a mobile wallet. The new Bold comes with BlackBerry Balance alongside the Bold, allow users to store corporate and personal data on separate parts to use them [...]
Bin Laden Raid Nearly Foiled by Twitter
May 2nd, 2011 admin The events leading up to Osama Bin Laden’s reported death were accidentally tweeted live from Abbottabad, the city the al-Qaeda leader was hiding, highlighting the real-time, on-the-ground potential of Twitter as a prevalent media tool. IT consultant Sohaib Athar yesterday tweeted live reports of a helicopter whirring overhead and later of an explosion that rattled [...]
