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Article | 28/02/2011 Commonwealth Bank brings NetBank to Android phones
The Commonwealth Bank today released its NetBank mobile banking application for Google Android smartphones.
Article | 28/02/2011 Use Microsoft Excel for (nearly) everything
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets hold more than a million rows of data and automate number crunching, but they can do so much more. Excel's simple interfa...
Article | 17/02/2011 App Genome Project finds Android apps outpacing iOS
In the battle between mobile platforms, one of the most critical factors is the success of the respective app library. The Apple App Store dominates a...
Article | 4/02/2011 iPad exclusive newspaper The Daily: what's the verdict?
News Corp's iPad-only newspaper, The Daily, launched this week with much fanfare. The digital newspaper is Rupert Murdoch's attempt to prove that the ...
Article | 1/02/2011 Google shifts focus from Web to mobile apps
Google is aggressively expanding its mobile app development efforts. According to a Wall Street Journal report, one of the first orders of business fo...
Article | 21/01/2011 Porn in Apple's App Store? Keep Dreaming
For a minute there, it seemed like hell had frozen over.
Article | 21/01/2011 Back up your Android phone with MyBackup Pro
As Android phones become more powerful and more useful, they also store more of your important personal data. Losing that data can be more than a mino...
Article | 17/01/2011 Explore the Moon With Moon Maps
Have you ever wanted to explore the moon? With the free Moon Maps Android app, you can. You can choose between imagery from the Clementine Mosaic or t...
Article | 14/01/2011 Google Translate mobile app
Sometime in the not-to-distant future, smartphones may help humans bridge those pesky linguistic and cultural barriers that always seem to cause so mu...
Article | 13/01/2011 iPhone safer from hackers than Android
Android-based smartphones are more vulnerable to attacks by hackers and electronic viruses than the iPhone, according to the chairman of the world's l...
Article | 9/01/2011 Google Books: A library on your Android phone
E-book readers, such as the Kindle and Nook, have become popular thanks to the convenience of carrying an entire library's worth of books on one devic...
Article | 29/12/2010 ING Direct's mobile banking apps help keep bank online-only
CIO worked with Antenna platform to write apps for multiple devices
Article | 22/12/2010 Want Swype for Android? Now's your chance
It's a weird sort of paradox: One of the most popular apps for Android is also one of the hardest to get.
Article | 21/12/2010 Smartphone Apps Are Betraying Us, Report Says
More than half of iPhone and Android apps routinely share the personal data of their users with outside companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation...
Article | 21/12/2010 Watch out Android marketplace! Here comes Windows
Nattering nabobs of negativism aside, the marketplace for Windows Phone 7 apps is doing quite well, thank you. A recent analysis from IDC shows that t...