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Article | 15/07/2010 iPhone rules smartphone roost
More consumers will be buying a smartphone in the next three months than ever before. And the big winner, by a big margin, is the super-achieving Appl...
Article | 15/07/2010 Apple iPhone antenna defenders speak out
As a chorus of pitchfork wielding iPhone 4 customers are demanding Apple admit to antenna problems, a less vocal minority are defending Apple. A cadre...
Article | 14/07/2010 Apple's iPhone 4 fiasco: There's no good way out
Pardon the produce-heavy language, but Apple is in one serious pickle.
Article | 14/07/2010 Bing client for Android due within weeks
Microsoft will release its first full-featured Bing search client for Android in the next six weeks, matching the search capabilities that Microsoft o...
Article | 14/07/2010 Windows Live to integrate WP7 phones, PCs, Xbox in the cloud
Microsoft officials today described how upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphones will perform within a network of Windows 7 PCs and Xbox gaming consoles t...
Article | 14/07/2010 Jumptap tries to capitalize on AdMob confusion
Hoping to make the most of a dispute between Google and Apple, Jumptap is offering developers who sign onto its mobile ad network the chance to collec...
Article | 14/07/2010 Cheap chipsets for Google Android smartphones due out in Q3
Taiwanese chipset developer MediaTek will start rolling out low-cost chipsets designed for handsets that use Google's Android mobile software in the t...
Article | 14/07/2010 Hands-on with Motorola's Droid X
Verizon Wireless on Thursday will start selling Motorola's highly anticipated smartphone, the Droid X, a faster and multimedia-savvy successor to the ...
Article | 14/07/2010 Windows Phone 7 can be remotely located, wiped
Lose your phone much? If so, you may want to consider one running Windows Phone 7 (WP7) for your next replacement.
Article | 13/07/2010 Google's new weapon in fighting Apple App Store -- you
Despite recent reports that say Google's Android market will soon have 100,000 mobile phone apps, Google is still far short of the 225,000 apps availa...
Article | 13/07/2010 Droid X goes on sale Thursday amid flurry of ad promotions
The Droid X smartphone. The Droid X smartphone ships on Thursday, following an unusual pre-sales publicity campaign designed to entice the savvy tech...
Article | 13/07/2010 Microsoft releases WP7 tools beta; preview phones coming next week
Windows Phone 7 (WP7) is coming later this year and today Microsoft released a beta version of developer tools to enable software makers to build appl...
Article | 13/07/2010 BlackBerry Protect brings enterprise security to consumers
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) today took the wraps off its latest offering for consumers, BlackBerry Protect, a free service meant to help...
Article | 13/07/2010 Complaints mar Google Android App Inventor
Google's App Inventor for Android has inspired some early complaints from users who claim they have not been able to install the software on 64-bit Wi...
Article | 13/07/2010 Don't buy Apple's iPhone 4, Consumer Reports warns
Consumer Reports magazine today said it won't recommend Apple's Phone 4 because of major reception issues when users touch the external antenna.