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A group of companies led by Microsoft have called on European authorities to launch an antitrust investigation into Google's dominance of Internet usage on mobile devices. http://phys.org/news284702074.html Technology Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:54:40 EST news284702074 (AP)—China's Lenovo Group said Tuesday it's buying small U.S. software company Stoneware as it seeks to gain a foothold in the rapidly growing field of cloud computing. http://phys.org/news267166598.html Technology Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:56:44 EST news267166598 In a not-very-subtle jab against Facebook, Google+ head Vic Gundotra says he's not opening up the social network's app development platform yet in part to avoid "screwing over developers." http://phys.org/news263218208.html Technology Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:10:16 EST news263218208 Researchers at the University of Utah are helping lay the groundwork for a new high-speed Internet upgrade. The White House today announced the launch of US Ignite, an initiative in which the UU is a major participant. http://phys.org/news258961339.html Technology Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:42:27 EST news258961339 Smart phones and tablet computers - once the latest must-have devices for technology geeks - are becoming increasingly more popular with the mainstream. The Android platform is now one of the most popular platforms with over 300 million Android devices in use since February and 700 000 devices being activated with each passing day. One of its main attractions is the open source software that allows a huge community of program developers to write applications. But with so many people contributing to this innovation, the operating system is open to bugs and security holes. In a new study, however, researchers in Italy may have neutralised any potential problems. http://phys.org/news257069249.html Technology Thu, 24 May 2012 09:07:40 EST news257069249 Cloud computing has emerged as a dominant computing platform providing billions of users world-wide with online services. The software applications powering these services, commonly referred to as scale-out workloads and which include web search, social networking and business analytics, tend to be characterized by massive working sets, high degrees of parallelism, and real-time constraints – features that set them apart from desktop, parallel and traditional commercial server applications. http://phys.org/news251524882.html Electronics Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:01:49 EST news251524882 Taiwan said Friday it had rejected an appeal by Google against a fine imposed on the US Internet giant for refusing to grant customers a seven-day trial period on its mobile phone apps. http://phys.org/news247471285.html Technology Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:40:01 EST news247471285 An increasing number of electronics products such as smartphones are equipped with fast, energy-efficient multi-core processors. As a matter of fact, however, programming of the respective applications is rather time-consuming and expensive. For fast and easy programming, partners from research and industry within the EU consortium ALMA are developing a novel tool chain based on the open-source software Scilab. ALMA is being coordinated by Professor Jürgen Becker and Dr. Michael Hübner from KIT's Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV). http://phys.org/news247316358.html Technology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:59:29 EST news247316358 Each fall at technical universities across the world, a new crop of aeronautical and astronautical engineering graduate students settle in for the work that will consume them for the next several years. For many, their first experience in these early months is not with titanium or aluminum or advanced carbon-fiber materials that are the stuff of airplanes, but with computer code. http://phys.org/news246625648.html Technology Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:08:07 EST news246625648 Most iPhone developers are focused on creating software applications for the hip smartphones from Apple. http://phys.org/news245561509.html Electronics Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:20:01 EST news245561509 Apple has started accepting payment in China's yuan currency through its online store, opening it up to the biggest Internet market in the world, company officials said Monday. http://phys.org/news241085083.html Technology Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:04:51 EST news241085083 Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday set out to rev up its BlackBerry and PlayBook lines with a tactic from Apple's winning playbook -- sexy, entertaining software applications. http://phys.org/news238163709.html Technology Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:00:01 EST news238163709 Thousands of US libraries on Wednesday began lending digital books over the Internet for reading on Amazon's popular Kindle devices. http://phys.org/news235829469.html Electronics Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:11:29 EST news235829469 Taipei said Monday it had fined Google Tw$1,000,000 ($34,600) for refusing to grant customers a seven-day trial period when they download apps for their cell phones. http://phys.org/news228389762.html Technology Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:50:01 EST news228389762 Chances are you've already got your head in the clouds. If Google has its way, you'll trust even more of your life to the digital cumulus. http://phys.org/news227982777.html Technology Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:10:05 EST news227982777 Startup WhoSay has been working quietly in the background helping Hollywood stars keep control of pictures and videos at social networking sensations Twitter and Facebook. http://phys.org/news224478856.html Technology Fri, 13 May 2011 04:50:01 EST news224478856 A new study finds that iPhone software applications designed to help people quit smoking fall short of the mark because they do not meet accepted standards. http://phys.org/news216386592.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:23:25 EST news216386592 If you want to be a smart shopper during the holidays, don't leave home without your smart phone. http://phys.org/news209914862.html Technology Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:50:01 EST news209914862 Facebook on Wednesday moved to become the heart of smartphone lifestyles by making it easy for people to find deals at nearby shops and connect with mobile software applications. http://phys.org/news208023180.html Technology Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:13:16 EST news208023180 IBM said Thursday it has been enlisted by the US Air Force to show how defense and intelligence networks can safely soar into the online software "cloud." http://phys.org/news184520608.html Technology Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:10:01 EST news184520608 Intel Corporation has made its beta version of the Intel Atom Developer Program Software Development Kit (SDK) available for Microsoft Windows and Moblin operating systems developers. The kit helps software companies and individuals design and submit applications ("apps") for Intel-based netbooks to ultimately sell at stores opening next year. http://phys.org/news179077093.html Technology Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:40:01 EST news179077093 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, PCs and servers. http://phys.org/news179071360.html Electronics Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:03:07 EST news179071360 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a platform that allows users with no special expertise to generate telecom plus internet services. The backers hope the platform will pave the way for the Telco 2.0 era. http://phys.org/news154884243.html Technology Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:24:59 EST news154884243