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Articles tagged with: Iphone and Smartphone
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
iPhone Killers are Lifesavers for Display Demand
The new generation of so-called "iphone killers" is set to drive demand and increase sales of displays commonly used in smart phones in 2009, despite an expected decline in the overall mobile-phone display market this year, according to iSuppli Corp. more
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Business meets leisure as small businesses opt for converged devices
The use of social networking and business applications is fuelling a surge in the numbers of small businesses turning to converged devices such as iphones and BlackBerry smartphones, according to research conducted by O2 in the UK. 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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Consumers Say $5 not Too Much for a Smartphone App Download
A survey of smartphone owners by Compete has found that when Smartphone users were asked the most they've ever spent on a single application, 24 percent said that they have spent anywhere from $10-$50 for a single app. 28 percent have spent between $5-10 on a single app. more
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Mobile Handset Market Stays Afloat with 258 Million Shipped in 1Q-2009
Despite tough corporate and unemployment news making the headlines, the mobile handset-buying public did not head to the hills during the first quarter of 2009. Handset vendors had shipped 258 million handsets by the end of the quarter. Although that represents an 11% year-over-year decline, the result significantly exceeded the previous forecast of 253.5 million. "Green shoots are sprouting," is how ABI Research vice president Jake Saunders describes the latest figures. more
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AT&T Sees Surge in Wi-Fi Connections
AT&T has reported dramatic growth in the number of Wi-Fi users and connections. The US firm reported Wi-Fi connections totaled 10.5 million in the first quarter of 2009 - more than triple the 3.4 million connections in the first quarter of 2008, and more than half AT&T's 20 million total Wi-Fi connections for all of 2008. more
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Fewer than 10% of LBS Developers Will Port Apps to Palm & Symbian
Developers of location aware applications are not interested in creating apps for the Palm WebOS or Symbian platforms, according to a survey conducted by Skyhook Wireless, provider of the hybrid location system XPS. High quality location results are key for these developers, who are using location to enable over 20 different types of applications. more
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Study Finds Disconnect Between Smartphone Adoption and Ability to Manage Mobile Devices
The mobile device automation vendor, Zenprise has published the findings of an Osterman Research study which found that most enterprise IT departments are not equipped to handle the rapid increase in smartphone adoption. Of those surveyed, only two in five expressed confidence that all elements of their mobile messaging platform are fully protected against downtime. more
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Smartphone sales buck the recession
A report by Infonetics Research is forecasting an 8% drop in the total number of mobile phones sold in 2009, to 1.1 billion worldwide (down from 1.2 billion in 2008), in line with predictions from Nokia, among others. Smartphones were the best-performing segment of the mobile phones market in 2008 and the only segment to show unit and revenue growth in the second half of the year as the world economy entered recession. more
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