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Article | 20/01/2011 Why Android users are such a happy lot
Smartphone users tend to hold strong opinions about the various mobile platforms out there, often displaying feverish loyalty to the one they use and ...
Article | 14/01/2011 BlackBerry Dakota signals RIM's desperation
Images and details of the BlackBerry Dakota--the impending flagship smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM)--have emerged. The Dakota is packed with ...
Article | 6/01/2011 IT in 2011: Four trends that will change priorities
It's always a challenge for IT departments to anticipate how corporate technical demands will evolve, especially when IT budgets have been as tight as...
Article | 22/12/2010 8pen: Android keyboard app tries something new
There are apps that I don't want to like, but do. Then there are apps I do want to like, but don't. The 8pen keyboard, unfortunately, belongs in this...
Article | 16/12/2010 Smartphones in the enterprise: A changing landscape
As recently as a year ago, many enterprises couldn't have imagined that the iPhone would now be second place in terms of security features that enterp...
Article | 14/12/2010 What is Android?
We explain Google's Android smartphone operating system.
Article | 14/12/2010 Cloud drives speech recognition forward for Microsoft
For years, using voice recognition technology on phones or other devices has been a novelty -- something people try once but never again, usually beca...
Article | 13/12/2010 Hands on with the Samsung Nexus S
The first phone to ship with Android 2.3 (also known as "Gingerbread") as the well as the follow-up to last January's Nexus One, the Nexus S is a join...
Article | 11/12/2010 How Android phones will use Near-Field Communication
The possibilities seemed endless when Google began hyping near-field communication for Android phones last month. Now, we've got some hard details on ...
Article | 1/11/2010 Top 10 games for PlayStation Phone
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you've no doubt heard about the impending PlayStation Phone -- a smartphone designed fo...
Article | 1/11/2010 A brief history of Android
In 2007, many pundits were expressing disappointment that Google was only releasing an open-source mobile operating system rather than a smartphone of...
Article | 19/10/2010 Why Nokia's Symbian OS sucks
Nokia's Symbian is the world's most popular mobile operating system according to the latest Gartner research. Despite the rise of the iPhone and Andro...
Article | 19/10/2010 Nokia N8 vs. iPhone 4: Smartphone showdown
Apple has thrown down the gauntlet to its competitors, releasing the fourth-generation iPhone, appropriately dubbed the iPhone 4.
Article | 13/10/2010 HTC 7 Mozart smartphone (preview)
HTC is one of three mobile phone manufacturers to partner with Microsoft for the launch of Windows Phone 7, the company's new mobile operating system....
Article | 13/10/2010 Samsung Omnia 7 smartphone (preview)
Samsung's Omnia 7 is the first Windows Phone 7 smartphone to come with a 4in, super AMOLED screen, making it an attractive proposition for multimedia ...