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Articles tagged with: Iphone and Google
It has not been easy for seventh-grade teacher Virginia McNally to explain to people what she learned during a two-week ``augmented reality games'' workshop at MIT this summer. more
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Google CEO leaves Apple board as companies compete
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple's board of directors as the Internet search leader increasingly develops products that compete with Apple's core businesses, including the popular iPhone. more
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Between Apple's iPhone 3G S, Google's G1 and the new Palm Pre, cell phones have become remarkably powerful information devices. But they also can be remarkably expensive, especially when you include service contracts. more
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Blackberry LBS Apps 4-Times More Expensive Than iPhone, Android LBS Apps
Wi-Fi hotspot based location services provider, Skyhook Wireless has released a report on trends in location-aware apps from Apple's App Store, Google's Android Marketplace and Blackberry App World. more
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Google CEO doesn't see problem with his Apple role
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is taking a government inquiry into his role on Apple's board in stride, expressing confidence that the probe won't find any evidence that the ties between the two companies throttle competition in mobile phones and other technology fields. more
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Game-Changing Moves Strengthen Consumer LBS in North America
The consumer location-based services (LBS) market has steadily evolved over the past few years, always promising significant revenue generation, but never quite delivering the critical mass of subscribers that were expected. Now, a number of factors - including the development of third-party location databases and technologies - are poised to finally drive real LBS market growth on mobile phones. more
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Mobile Phones Get Smarter at CTIA with Touch Screen Tech
This month's International CTIA Wireless 2009 event in Las Vegas showcased in the mobile handset's industry increasing focus on smart phones, as illustrated by prevalence of announcements related to touch-screen technology, according to iSuppli. more
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iPhone: Not a top 20 handset for browsing and buying on the mobile web
According to statistics released by mobile billing and analytics firm, Bango, when it comes to the most popular phones for browsing and buying content on the mobile web worldwide, the iphone still sits outside the top 20. The Bango Top 20 handset list, based on Bango's February statistics, puts the Nokia 3110c on top, followed by the Samsung M800 in 2nd and the Nokia 6300 in 3rd. more
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Apple Adds MMS and Copy/Paste to the iPhone
Apple has previewed an upgrade of its operating system for the iphone handsets, along with the immediate availability of a beta software release to registered developers. The iphone OS 3.0 beta release includes an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) with over 1,000 new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) including In-App Purchases; Peer-to-Peer connections; an app interface for accessories; access to the iPod music library; a new Maps API and Push Notifications. more
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Nokia Smartphone Sales Fall as RIM, Apple, Samsung Take Market Share
In the fourth quarter of 2008, worldwide sales of smartphones to end users reached 38.1 million units, an increase of 3.7 per cent on the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Global sales of smartphones for 2008 reached 139.3 million devices, up 13.9 per cent compared with 2007. more
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