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July 17, 2014
The mobile technology company Appcelerator has been around since 2006, and chances are that if you know about it, you mostly think of it as the company behind…
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Last year Instagram made its first acquisition, buying Y Combinator company Luma which had come up with an app which could stabilize normally shaky video. It needed this…
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By this point, most of us are fully addicted to our smartphones. And when we find ourselves without Wifi or data service, our most direct connection to everything…
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It’s not just Nokia’s Android line of devices that are for the chop: Microsoft plans to ramp down production of Nokia devices running the legacy Series 40 platform…
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When we last left Samsung, the company saw sales falling 9 percent and revenue falling by 24 percent. Now a survey by Counterpoint shows that consumers are more…
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The rapid growth in the world of apps — Google Play and Apple‘s App Store have over one million apps each – has given rise to a vast number of…
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In the wake of Microsoft‘s announcement that it will lay off up to 18,000 employees over the next year, and that the Nokia X Android handset will eventually run…
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Apple has a new patent out (via AppleInsider) that describes a method for locking a device or asking a user for proof of their identity if the device…
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Apple has a new way to load up your iTunes account with funds, and it makes use of Passbook – just hit the “Redeem” button in the iTunes Store…
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Soundwave, the mobile app that tracks the listening habits of you, your friends and other users you follow, to help you discover more and better music, is rolling…
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