Who Is Actually Using Android Tablets?
Google has now activated 70 million Android tablets, but how many of those devices are getting regular use? Benedict Evans, a strategy consultant for Enders Analysis,…
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Symantec Spots First Two Apps That Exploit Biggest-Ever Android Security Hole
Less than a month after researchers at Bluebox Security uncovered the biggest Android security hole to date, Symantec has spotted two malicious apps that are taking…
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Nokia May Have Found A Great New Niche
All Western brands are struggling to get traction in what is shaping up to be an epic battle against the Asian Android vendors that have…
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Google Unveils Its Next-Gen Nexus 7 Tablet
Try to act surprised: Google on Wednesday took the wraps off of its brand new next-generation Nexus 7 tablet. After a string of leaks and…
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How To Stop Google From Spamming Your Gmail Inbox With Ads
Earlier this week, Google adopted a new strategy and is now placing targeted advertisements in the inboxes of Gmail users. The company is rolling out a redesign…
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Killing BBM: Rival Messaging Apps Are On A Rampage Right Now
BlackBerry Messenger is likely going to become available for Android and iOS by the end of September. While the world waits, download rates among cross-platform…
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SSR Sees Signs That Apple's Business Model Is 'Beginning To Come Apart'
Apple scored a small but much-needed victory on Tuesday when it posted fiscal third-quarter results that beat analysts' consensus, sending the stock soaring as much…
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Apple Is Still The Most Profitable Consumer Electronics Company In The World [Updated]
In the second calendar quarter this year, Apple retained its long-standing title of most profitable consumer electronics company in the world. Earlier this month, Samsung posted…
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Why Nokia's Budget Smartphone Strategy Looks Like A Winner
It's been a rough past few years for Nokia but the company seems to be ahead of the curve when it comes to selling ultra-cheap…
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Apple Posts Q3 Results: Earnings Beat Estimates At $7.47 Per Share On $35B In Sales
Apple shares closed above $600 on July 23rd last year and then fell sharply on the 24th when Apple posted a huge earnings miss for…
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Hands-On With Verizon's Droid Ultra, Droid Maxx And Droid Mini
Motorola and Verizon teamed up and introduced three new Droid smartphones at a press conference on Tuesday. The Droid Mini, Droid Ultra and Droid Maxx…
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Small Utah-Based ISP Forced To Install Black Box That Allowed Feds To Spy
Pete Ashdown, the CEO of small Utah ISP XMission, says that in 2010 he received a Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA) warrant that allowed the…
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Major SIM Card Security Flaw Puts Hundreds Of Millions Of Devices At Risk
A security researcher in Germany claims to have discovered an encryption flaw in SIM cards that allow a user's cell phone to be hacked in…
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The Smartphone Price Crash Is About To Wreck Two Major Vendors
The latest IDC estimates of smartphone price decline give us a pretty good explanation to why most phone vendors had such lousy spring quarters. The global…
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Apple Reports Major Security Breach; Researcher Says He Issued Warning
Apple on Sunday said in an email to developers that a recent days-long developer portal outage was the result of a security breach in which…
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Daily Android Activations Grow To 1.5 Million, Google Play Surpasses 50 Billion Downloads
Google CEO Larry Page this week revealed that more than 1.5 million Android devices are being activated each day, up from 1.3 million last September.…
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How Did Microsoft Screw Up The Surface RT This Badly?
Microsoft's mistakes during the launch of its first tablet were obvious to many people, but it was still shocking to hear on Thursday that the…
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Every Major PC Vendor Except Lenovo Is In Free Fall
Throughout this year of gloomy PC sales, one constant has remained: Lenovo has been the only vendor whose shipments have either held steady or have…
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Nvidia Undeterred By Gloomy Projections, Pledges Loyalty To Windows RT
Even though manufacturers keep running away from Windows RT, chipmaker Nvidia is sticking by its commitment to make GPUs for devices based on Microsoft's tablet…
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Motorola Is Turning Into A Rotting Albatross Around Google's Neck
The albatross was a sacred animal to old mariners. The punishment for killing the big bird on a sailing ship was having to carry it around your…
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Google Posts Big Miss With Q2 EPS Of $9.56
Google on Thursday reported earnings of $9.56 per share on revenues of $14.11 billion, thus missing Wall Street's second-quarter EPS consensus of $10.78 on $14.4…
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Microsoft Reports Q4 Miss: $0.59 EPS On Revenues Of $19.89 Billion
With PC sales tumbling and Microsoft continuing to struggle to find its place in the mobile market, all eyes turn to the company's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings…
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Elop Finally Admits Why Nokia Didn't Switch To Android: Samsung Scared Him Away
Every single time Nokia unveils a new smartphone or reports numbers of any kind, a familiar question is raised: What if Nokia had switched to…
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Nokia's Smartphone Prices Are Dropping Like A Rock
Overall, Nokia's second-quarter sales and earnings came in above expectations thanks to the strong network unit performance. But the smartphone unit volume was light at 7.4…
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Yahoo Ups Its Efforts To Compete With Google's Mobile Ad Powerhouse
Yahoo has been acquiring companies left and right since former Google executive Marissa Mayer became the company's chief executive. Mayer has emphasized the importance of…
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Nearly 600,000 People Buy Smartphones For The First Time Each Week In The U.S.
Some analysts have claimed that because everyone already owns a smartphone, growth is slowing in the industry. While this may be the case, it's still…
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Why The NSA Will Have A Tougher Time Spying Through The Xbox One Kinect Sensor
Given all the allegations surrounding Microsoft's supposed cooperation with the United States government on implementing the PRISM surveillance program, it's not too far-fetched to worry that the National…
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