Tagged: Mobile & News
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Netflix issues update for Android smartphones (video) News
24.09.2012 Netflix has just upgraded its Android app, bringing it in line with recent upgrades for the iPhone and iPod touch and making the experience more like that available on tablet... -
TelecityGroup’s Maurice Mortell – prepare your economy for the digital wireless future (video) News
19.09.2012 By 2016, more people will be connected wirelessly than via wired technology and the implications for businesses in Ireland already playing catch-up with e-commerce needs to be... -
OPINION: Olympics overtake outstanding Obama online News
15.09.2012 At the time of writing, the Paralympics and the upcoming American general election dominate the news. And with good reason; not only was London 2012 one of the greatest Olympics... -
Internet usage worldwide (infographic) News
08.09.2012 Half of the world’s population will be online by 2017, the Forrester Research World Online Population Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Global) reports. That's 3.5bn out of 7.4bn people,... -
Lady Gaga to release app for new album ARTPOP News
06.09.2012 Lady Gaga’s new album ARTPOP will accompany an app that will deliver a “multimedia experience” to fans, the pop star revealed on her Little Monsters social network. -
China’s biggest search engine launches its own mobile browser, Baidu Explorer News
03.09.2012 Chinese-language search engine Baidu has decided to try and capture the massive mobile internet market in China by launching its own mobile browser, Baidu Explorer. -
Samsung launches Galaxy Player 5.8 in South Korea News
27.08.2012 The Galaxy Player 5.8, Samsung’s new media player, has launched in the company’s home country of South Korea, while Europeans will likely get a good look at the device at... -
New app VoipR rewards users with free points for calls News
27.08.2012 With Skype, WhatsApp and Viber, smartphone users are spoiled for choice when it comes to communications apps that offer an alternative way to call and text. How VoipR, which... -
Samsung’s dual-SIM Galaxy S Duos to hit Europe in September News
21.08.2012 The Samsung Galaxy smartphone family has a new addition in the form of the S Duos, an Android-powered dual-SIM smartphone targeted at active young professionals, which will be... -
More than half of mobile gamers play at home News
06.08.2012 ‘Mobile’ gamers seem to misunderstand the meaning of the term, with more than half of those surveyed in the US and UK opting to play games on their mobile device while at home,... -
Yelp reveals Q2 2012 net revenue increase of 67pc to US$32.7m News
02.08.2012 Net revenue at customer-review website Yelp jumped 67pc from the second quarter of 2011 to US$32.7m during Q2 of 2012. -
#London2012 – Networks can’t handle Olympian volume of texts News
30.07.2012 Spectators at the men’s cycling road race on Sunday were asked to refrain from texting during the event unless it was urgent, as overloaded data networks caused problems for... -
Samsung continues reign as world’s top smartphone vendor with record-breaking sales – report News
27.07.2012 Samsung’s smartphone shipments in Q2 2012 hit 50.5m units – the largest number ever shipped by a smartphone vendor in a single quarter, a recent report from Strategy Analytics... -
Facebook’s first public results show it still has a mountain to climb News
27.07.2012 In eight years, Facebook has amassed an audience of 955m monthly active users around the world and last night posted revenues of US$1.1bn – an amazing achievement. However,... -
Removal of universal search on Samsung Galaxy S III in UK accidental News
26.07.2012 Oops! A software upgrade rolled out to Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone users in the UK that removed universal search from these devices turns out to have been a mistake on the... -
HTC-made Facebook smartphone rumoured for a 2013 release News
26.07.2012 Bloomberg cites “people with knowledge of the matter” claiming that a collaboration between Facebook and HTC could see the two launch a smartphone in mid-2013. -
Samsung’s latest international update for Galaxy S III disables universal search News
25.07.2012 Samsung appears to be rolling out an international upgrade for its Galaxy S III smartphones that, along with some improvements, disables universal search, which allows users to...Tags: Upgrades, Software, Technology, Search, Mobile, Smartphones, Patents, Apple, Galaxy S III, Samsung -
Viber 2.2 offers group messaging, improved call quality and a customisable look News
24.07.2012 Version 2.2 of Viber, the popular communication app with more than 90m registered users, now lets users customise the app’s look and send group messages quickly and easily. -
Become Batman with The Dark Knight Rises mobile game (video) News
20.07.2012 Unless you’ve been living in a bubble under a rock on the moon, you might be aware that there’s a new Batman movie out this weekend. And, like any good summer superhero...Categories: Multimedia, Mobile, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Apps, Application Design and Development -
More than 40pc of iPhone apps don’t encrypt the location data they retrieve – study News
20.07.2012 A study of more than 65,000 iPhone apps by Bitdefender has revealed privacy and security concerns over what users might pick up in the App Store.