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Article | 23/04/2013 China's Huawei bolstering smartphone strategy, plans to announce new handset
Chinese handset maker Huawei plans to introduce a new smartphone in the middle of this year, packed with the "best hardware and design," and is prepar...
Article | 22/04/2013 Apple's lead over Samsung in future-purchase plan survey cut in half
Apple's iPhone lost ground in the last three months to smartphones from rival Samsung in a survey of consumers' future purchase plans, a market resear...
Article | 18/04/2013 Samsung fights dirty with misleading claims against HTC – who may have replied in kind
Embarrassed Samsung officials were forced to apologize to rival HTC for a sneaky PR campaign that involved paying off Taiwanese students to write nega...
Article | 18/04/2013 Foxtel Go coming soon to Android, exclusive to Samsung devices?
Foxtel is soon expected to release its Foxtel Go app on the Android platform, but latest rumours suggest the app will be available exclusively for Sam...
Article | 18/04/2013 China's ZTE finds some positive in security concerns, wants to boost brand
Chinese handset maker ZTE put a positive spin on the recent U.S. scrutiny of its networking business, stating that the controversy at least gave the c...
Article | 17/04/2013 Facebook Home now available in Australia
A week after it debuted in the US, Facebook has launched its Home Android launcher in the Australian Google Play Store.
Article | 17/04/2013 Facebook 6.0 delivers new look to iOS apps
In a major upgrade to its iOS apps, Facebook emphasizes images and messages.
Article | 17/04/2013 Amazon's Android Appstore to become available in 200 more countries
Amazon.com is continuing the global expansion of its Appstore by announcing that developers can submit their apps for sale in another 200 countries ar...
Article | 17/04/2013 Microsoft signs patent licensing deal with Foxconn covering Android, Chrome devices
Microsoft has signed up another major electronics manufacturer to its Android and Chrome patent licensing program, this time Taiwan's Foxconn, which w...
Article | 16/04/2013 Xamarin hopes to simplify mobile app testing with new service
Xamarin has announced Test Cloud, an automated service that lets mobile developers test their apps on hundreds of mobile devices.
Article | 16/04/2013 Microsoft exec talks mobile smack, trashes iOS as 'boring,' Android as 'a mess'
Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones has taken shots at both iOS and Android , calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's...
Article | 12/04/2013 Facebook Home goes live in Google Play
Facebook Home, which doesnt replace the Android OS but sits on top of it, includes a family of Facebook-focused apps and also works with the apps a us...
Article | 12/04/2013 Facebook Home is a social butterfly's dream
How much Facebook is too much Facebook?
Article | 11/04/2013 Product snapshot: ASUS Transformer AiO PC blends Windows 8 and Android
ASUS has released a triple threat of a machine that should do well to confuse lots of non-technical people (and even many techies). Its Transformer Al...
Article | 10/04/2013 Google's Play Store gets major UI overhaul
Google has begun rolling out an updated Play Store app on Android devices, with a new design that focuses on "bigger images that jump off the page".