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Article | 21/05/2013 Top four: the best Twitter clients for each smartphone OS
In March, Twitter announced that it would be shutting down its TweetDeck iOS and Android apps. That's bad news for TweetDeck devotees, but good news f...
Article | 21/05/2013 Opera's new Android browser hits Google Play, rebuilt from the ground up
After three months of public beta testing, Opera is finally ready to take on Google's Chrome with its rebuilt Android browser. On Tuesday, Opera relea...
Article | 21/05/2013 Unity adds free mobile game development for Android and iOS
Unity Technologies has added the ability to develop for Android and iOS games for free using its platform.
Article | 21/05/2013 OpenGL developer to create API for controlling smartphone cameras
The Khronos Group has announced plans to create an open and royalty-free application programming interface for controlling mobile and embedded cameras...
Article | 20/05/2013 Smartphones take center stage in two-factor authentication schemes
We all know that relying on a simple user ID and password combination is fraught with peril. One alternative is to use one of the single sign-on solut...
Article | 20/05/2013 Mobile coverage in Sydney train tunnels 15 years in the making: Optus
Optus has revealed that the network infrastructure upgrade to bring mobile phone coverage into Sydney's train tunnels was a project that was 15 years ...
Article | 20/05/2013 Jolla announces first Sailfish-based smartphone
Finnish startup Jolla has announced its first smartphone, which shows off its Sailfish OS on a 4.5-inch screen.
Article | 18/05/2013 iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending May 17
There's nothing like exclusive, high resolution, leaked photographs of arcane internal iPhone components to trigger the gaga reflex in the iOSphere. I...
Article | 17/05/2013 BlackBerry 10.1 update now available in Australia
BlackBerry has released the first major update to its BlackBerry 10 operating system for smartphones, less than two months after the company first unv...
Article | 17/05/2013 New iPhone: Sapphire crystal fingerprint scanner 'to be embedded in home button'
There have been plenty of rumours circulating that Apple is planning to incorporate fingerprint readers into the new iPhone, and now confirmation that...
Article | 16/05/2013 Windows Phone claims third place in the smartphone wars, but challenges await
Microsoft's Windows Phone may be struggling to gain a foothold in the US, but the software giant and Nokia are starting to see results on a global sca...
Article | 16/05/2013 Samsung Link to replace AllShare Play multimedia-sharing app
Samsung's AllShare Play application, which allows file sharing among the company's mobile devices, has been renamed Link, and it has a new user interf...
Article | 16/05/2013 Now you see it: How Apple's Retina display is a boon to accessibility
iOS's accessibility features are great, particularly on the iPad--as I've written elsewhere--but for disabled users, accessibility is more than just a...
Article | 16/05/2013 Retina iPad mini 'will feature new processor chip'
A 'tipster' claims that the new iPad mini will get the A6X chip to power its Retina display
Article | 16/05/2013 Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition to launch with stock Android
At its Google I/O 2013 developer conference, Google announced it will sell a version of the Galaxy S4 running stock Android.