Free Apps Will Account For Nearly 90% Of All Downloads In 2012
Surprise, surprise: People would rather not pay for smartphone apps. The latest numbers from Gartner research released Tuesday showed that free apps accounted for 89%…
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'RetroUI' Lets Users Ditch Windows 8's New Interface Entirely
Microsoft's (MSFT) new user interface in Windows 8 is apparently pretty scary. Early reviews of the new OS were overwhelmingly positive, but views soured as…
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Windows 8 Sends Microsoft Information About Every Program You Install [Updated]
Even though it won't be released for another month and a half, Microsoft's (MSFT) upcoming Windows 8 operating system has already found itself at the center…
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Startup Looks To The Cloud To Make Dumb Phones Smart [Video]
Nokia (NOK) had big plans to bring a more capable platform to emerging markets but three consecutive billion-dollar quarterly losses forced the company to discontinue…
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Here's How To Bring The Start Button Back To Windows 8
When users found out that Microsoft's (MSFT) next version of Windows wouldn't have a Start button, they panicked. Replaced in Windows 8 by the user…
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UI Expert: Windows Users Will Hate The New Windows 8 Experience
Microsoft (MSFT) should brace for a user backlash against Windows 8 that will make the company pine for the days of Clippy, according to usability…
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iOS 6 Beta 4 Change Log Now Available; YouTube App Removed From iOS [Updated]
Apple (AAPL) on Monday released iOS 6 beta 4 to developers as an over-the-air download, and the company has now updated its developer portal with…
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Microsoft Launches Outlook.com, Begins Phasing Out Hotmail
Microsoft (MSFT) is giving its email application a much-needed makeover. On Tuesday Microsoft's Outlook Blog took the wraps off of Outlook.com, a new online email…
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking Brings A Form Of Siri To Your Desktop, Android
Nuance Communications (NUAN) has made some big-time improvements to its popular Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software, including improved performance on Gmail and Hotmail and a…
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ABI: Developers Are In For A Dose Of Reality As Mobile App Downloads Decline
Is HTML5 really overhyped? Not so fast, says a recent report from market research firm ABI Research. The firm on Wednesday released a new report…
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iPhone App In Apple's App Store Found To Contain... Windows Malware?
Apple's (AAPL) stiff rules and extensive testing procedures have done a great job of keeping malware out of the iOS App Store. With just a…
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Developer Slams Android App Store, Calls It 'Broken' And 'Designed For Piracy'
Scottish app developer Matt Gemmell has written a lengthy blog post slamming Google (GOOG) for setting up Android in a way that makes app piracy insanely easy. Specifically,…
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'Minority Report' Software Becomes A Reality [Video]
Large-scale motion and gesture-controlled computing is no longer confined to science fiction movies, as Los Angeles-based Oblong Industries again demonstrates its exciting software that gives users…
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Mozilla's Firefox Mobile OS Looks Strangely Familiar... [Updated]
Mozilla announced earlier this month that the HTML5-based mobile platform it's currently concocting will launch in early 2013 as Firefox Mobile OS. The platform will…
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Remember How Great Adobe Flash Used To Be? Meet The Guys Who Invented It In 1993
Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was going "thermonuclear war" on Adobe's Flash platform long before he set his sights on Android. In fact, he even…
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OS X Mountain Lion Most Likely Set To Debut On July 25th For Only $19.99
Apple previously announced that its next-generation OS X operating system, called Mountain Lion, would launch sometime in July, although a specific date was never announced.…
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iPhone Hacker Shows The World How To Steal In-App Purchases [Updated]
In Russia, iPhone hacks you! Via 9to5Mac, it seems that a crafty Ruskie hacker who calls himself "ZonD80" has concocted a method that lets even…
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Google Shows Developers How To Make Chrome Act Like The Default Browser In iOS
Google has received positive feedback regarding its mobile Chrome web browser. After arriving on the iPhone and iPad late last month, the browser quickly became…
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Google Now Can Now Be Ported To Ice Cream Sandwich
Google Now is one of the coolest new features that Google has brought to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, but since Jelly Bean has only been…
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Apple's Spotless Record Tarnished By App Store's First Malicious Spam App [Updated]
Apple's spotless record of keeping the App Store clear of malicious spam apps has been tarnished. Researchers at Kaspersky have discovered an app called "Find…
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RapidShare Unveils Dropbox Competitor: RapidDrive
RapidShare this week unveiled a new cloud sync and storage solution called RapidDrive. The service competes directly with offerings such as Dropbox and SugarSync, integrating…
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Corrupt Apps Sweep Apple's App Store [Updated]
A laundry list of iOS and Mac apps updated over the past day are crashing on launch due to an issue with Apple's App Store…
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Siri Still Can't Match Old-Fashioned Google Search, Analyst Says
Fortune reports that Piper Jaffray has conducted a little study comparing Siri and Google in terms of both query comprehension and response accuracy, and has not surprisingly…
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Chrome For iOS Hits No.1 In Apple's App Store
Google's Chrome browser quickly became one of the most popular desktop Web browsers in the world, and now Google has its sites set on mobile.…
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Google Chrome Coming To iPhone, iPad
Just one day after releasing the final version of Google Chrome for Android, Google announced that it is releasing Google Chrome for iOS on Thursday…
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Google Chrome For Android Hands-On: Asses Kicked, Names Taken
Google has effectively ended the debate over which mobile browser Android fans should use on their smartphones and tablets — the answer is Chrome. And…
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Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Will Come Equipped With "Wallet Hub"
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that all Windows Phone 8 devices will come equipped with a near field communications-based wallet program that will let users add…
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