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Smartphones Becoming A Major Shopping Accessory

Smartphones Becoming A Major Shopping Accessory

By Shaylin Clark 7 hours ago

Smartphone owners are becoming increasingly dependent on their phones to help them shop, according to a recent report from Nielsen. Nearly a third (29%) of smartphone owners use their phones while they shop. What’s more, many want the option to …

Windows Browser Market Share Down

Web browsing while using Windows OS is down by almost 7%, according to a report by ad network Chikita, regarding browsing trends, taken from August 2011 to February 2012. This number has been mainly affected by the increasing popularity of …

Apple's iOS Devices Overtook Their Mac Business
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Apple has been making Macintosh computers for the past 28 years. The company’s newer iOS devices, while only being on the market for a relatively short time, have already outpaced the Mac business. Speaking to Fortune Magazine, Apple CEO Tim …

Messages Only For OS X Mountain Lion After Beta

When Apple unexpectedly announced OS X Mountain Lion yesterday, they offered Mac users a taste of things to come in the form of a beta version of the new Messages app. The app works just like Messages for iOS, in …

Google Goggles Gets Currency Recognition

When Google launched Google Goggles in 2009 the service was cool, but still pretty limited. While there were lots of things you could search for just by taking a picture, there were lots more that the Google Goggles wouldn’t recognize. …

Apple Quietly Drops "Mac" From OS X's Name
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When Apple unexpectedly announced OS X Mountain Lion this morning, they trumpeted a host of new features. Mountain Lion is getting Messages (which is already available in beta), Reminders, and Notification Center from iOS. It’s getting Gatekeeper for security. It’s …

Apple Launches Messages Beta For Mac
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Today, Apple released a developer preview of their new OS X Mountain Lion. It’s set to bring some popular things from iOS to the Mac like Messages, Notes, Reminders, and the Notification Center. That dev preview includes the all new …

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Apple to Improve Contact Data Privacy
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As previously reported, Apple received a letter from Congress questioning the company about the way it allows iOS app developers to treat users’ contact info. AllThingsD is sharing a statement it received from an Apple spokesperson: “Apps that collect or …

Mobile Sega Games On Sale For Valentine's Day

Sega announced on its blog that it is offering a number of mobile games at discounted prices from now through Valentine’s Day. Most of them are for iOS, but there are a couple for Android as well. Here’s the full …

Study: iOS Beats Mac OS X In Web Market Share
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Apple’s iOS mobile operating system has surpassed their desktop operating system, OS X, in web traffic market share over the last six months. Apple had a record quarter in which they sold 37.04 million iPhones and 15.43 million iPads, and …

NOAA Switches From BlackBerry To iPhone, iPad

Late last week we brought you news that energy giant Halliburton was dropping its support for the BlackBerry platform in favor of Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Now it seems that the beleaguered RIM is about to suffer another blow. The …

iPad 3: Leaked Images Show Few External Changes, Big Internal Changes
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UPDATE: iPad 3 Launch Event rumored for the first week of March. ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Several images are circulating this morning that appear to be components of the forthcoming iPad 3. While the various images show some interesting updates to some …

Path: “We Are Sorry” For Uploading Your Data

Yesterday we brought you news that social networking app Path had been discovered uploading users’ mobile phone contacts. Distressingly, the app did not offer users the chance to opt out, nor did it even notify users that their information was …

New Vonage iPhone, Android App Takes Aim At Skype
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Vonage has released a new app for mobile devices as part of its ongoing rivalry with VoIP giant Skype. The app, Vonage Mobile, is available today for iOS and Android devices. Vonage Mobile offers free app-to-app calling, and claims to …

Path Uploads Your Address Book To Their Servers

An iOS developer has made a surprising and somewhat alarming discovery about the iPhone app published by social network Path. Arun Thampi of Singapore was digging around in Path when he discovered that the app uploads the entire contents of …

RIM Says BlackBerry App World More Profitable Than Android

Speaking at BlackBerry DevCon in Europe RIM’s Vice President for Developer Relations, Alec Saunders, had some interesting things to say about the BlackBerry App World. Saying that he wanted to “bust a few myths,” Saunders said that BlackBerry users download …

Halliburton Drops BlackBerry, Switches to iPhone

In 2007 Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform owned the mobile enterprise market. As the iPhone – and Google’s Android platform after it – have grown in popularity, RIM has steadily lost market share. With the help of a few bad …