News tagged with mobile platform
Facebook smartphone could come by next year: report
Facebook hopes to release its own smartphone by next year, as the newly public social networking giant looks to boost its revenue in the mobile Internet market, the New York Times reported Monday.
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May 28, 2012 |
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Under Microsoft, Skype aims for one billion users
Microsoft's Skype Internet telephone service hopes to quadruple the number of users to get to one billion, division president Tony Bates said Thursday.
May 31, 2012 |
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Scientists invent revolutionary chipset for high-speed wireless data transfer
Here is a new microchip that can transfer data the size of 80 MP3 song files (or 250 megabytes) wirelessly between mobile devices, in the flick of a second. Or how about transferring a typical 2-hour, 8-gigabyte DVD movie ...
May 24, 2012 |
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New Orleans newspaper to end daily publication
The Times-Picayune, the largest newspaper in New Orleans, said Thursday it would end daily print publication, moving to a schedule of three issues per week, to adapt to "an increasingly digital age."
May 24, 2012 |
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Drift to mobile a new challenge for Facebook
With Internet users increasingly going mobile, a major challenge for Facebook will be trying to make money from its massive global presence in a more complex mobile space.
May 18, 2012 |
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Google violated copyright, but no damages: jury
A jury ruled Monday that Google violated copyrights owned by Oracle Corp. for the Android mobile platform, but failed to agree on whether damages should be awarded in the high-profile trial.
May 07, 2012 |
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US military to pack more BlackBerry smartphones
Research In Motion (RIM) on Wednesday announced that the US Department of Defense staff and partners have been given the go-ahead to use more of the Canadian firm's BlackBerry OS 7 smartphones.
May 09, 2012 |
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New biofuels processing method for mobile facilities
Chemical engineers at Purdue University have developed a new method to process agricultural waste and other biomass into biofuels, and they are proposing the creation of mobile processing plants that would ...
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Robots learn to create language
(PhysOrg.com) -- Communication is a vital part of any task that has to be done by more than one individual. That is why humans in every corner of the world have created their own complex languages that help ...
May 17, 2011 |
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Hewlett Packard puts mobile chips in data centers
Hewlett Packard (HP) sees a future in super-efficient data centers powered by the kinds of power-sipping computer chips used in smartphones and tablet computers.
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Researchers find some smartphone models more vulnerable to attack
New research from North Carolina State University shows that some smartphones specifically designed to support the Android mobile platform have incorporated additional features that can be used by hackers to bypass Android's ...
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Nokia to launch Microsoft platform phones in 2011
Finnish handset maker Nokia Corp. plans to introduce its first mobile phones using the Microsoft Windows operating system this year, the company's chief executive said Tuesday.
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Google turning smartphones into wallets: source
Google on Thursday will launch a mobile payment platform that lets people use smartphones to pay at shops as easily as they use a credit card, according to a source familiar with the matter.
May 25, 2011 |
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Google gets into local bargain game with Offers
Google on Wednesday will begin testing an Offers service that delivers local bargains to smartphone "wallets" in a challenge to online bargain hot spot Groupon.
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Adobe pulls plug on Flash for mobile
US software maker Adobe pulled the plug Wednesday on its Flash player for mobile browsers, which Apple's late chief executive Steve Jobs refused to allow on the iPhone and iPad.
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Mobile operating system
A Mobile operating system, also known as , a Mobile OS, a Mobile platform, or a Handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device—similar in principle to an operating system such as Linux or Windows that controls a desktop computer. However, they are currently somewhat simpler, and deal more with the wireless versions of broadband and local connectivity, mobile multimedia formats, and different input methods.
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