May 17th, 2013
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May 17th, 2013
Windows Phone has sneaked past Blackberry into third position among smartphone operating systems worldwide, according to IDC, but its 3.2% market share of devices shipped in the first quarter of the year...
May 16th, 2013
Google had pre-warned that its I/O conference keynote last night would be focused on services and developers rather than new Android hardware. The announcements were impressive in their breadth and ambition.
The...
May 15th, 2013
Yesterday saw BlackBerry unveil its latest smartphone, the keyboard-toting Q5, but there were also some interesting developments with its BBM messaging service.
Under threat from cross-platform apps...
May 14th, 2013
With Google's I/O developer conference set to outline the next steps for Android this week, Google's new Android boss Sundar Pichai has been talking about the company's plans.
"The momentum — in terms...
May 13th, 2013
Mobile industry analyst Asymco has been crunching some more Apple figures, coming up with an average annual spend for iTunes users across apps, music, video and books.
The number? $40 a year each, based...
May 10th, 2013
Apple has been working on a Pandora-style personal radio service for iOS – dubbed 'iRadio' by us hacks – for some time. When will it launch? That depends on signing the necessary licensing deals.
The...
May 9th, 2013
Android-powered games console Ouya didn't float venture-capital firms' boats back in 2012, leading the company to raise money on Kickstarter instead – to the tune of $8.6m.
Now the VCs are getting...
May 8th, 2013
Britain’s children have added £30m to their parents’ bills through unauthorised in-app purchases, according to new research from Windows Phone, with eight year olds adding an average of £59 to smartphone...
