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smaxp writes:
What if Microsoft just made it easy for a change. A free Microsoft RD Gateway service that would let consumers, prosumers and small business remotely use Windows from iPads, Iphones and Android would stop the erosion from Dropbox and Google Apps.
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smaxp writes:
After a motorcycle accident in Barcelona, Skully Helmet CEO and founder Marcus Weller discovered that adding a heads-up display to a motorcycle helmet controlled by Android would protect him and other riders from road hazards.
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smaxp writes:
Console game companies can't ignore that $0.20 a day from 100 million monthly active free-to-play gamers is a huge amount of money.
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smaxp writes:
Craig Mundie stopped to speak at MIT last week on his way to New York to receive the Eisenhower Award for his contributions to national security. At the MIT EmTech event, Mundie, a senior advisor to the CEO at Microsoft and a member of the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, spoke about cybersecurity threats and the personal privacy issues that have been a top public concern of late.
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smaxp writes:
Amazon is reported to have two smartphones in development. Is Amazon developing a smartphone or is it developing its own smartphone business model?
At this point a better question might be — what is a phone and why would Amazon care?
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smaxp writes:
Two new beta versions of Chrome were recently released for public download. Designated Chrome 30, the release includes an Android release and a desktop release for Windows, Mac and Linux. Both browsers have welcome improvements. Because Google releases new versions of Chrome six to eight times per year, most of these new Chrome versions will be familiar to users.
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smaxp writes:
Until now, Google hasn’t talked about malware on Android because it did not have the data or analytic platform to back its security claims. But that changed dramatically today when Google’s Android Security chief Adrian Ludwig reported data showing that less than an estimated 0.001% of app installations on Android are able to evade the system’s multi-layered defenses and cause harm to users. Android, built on an open innovation model, has quietly resisted the locked down, total control model spawned by decades of Windows malware. Ludwig spoke today at the Virus Bulletin conference in Berlin because he has the data to dispute the claims of pervasive Android malware threats.
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smaxp writes:
An astounding 450 million smartphones will ship in China in 2014, which amounts to approximately a third of worldwide shipments. It also means that next year, one in every three Chinese men, women and children will buy a smartphone. China is a tantalizing target for Apple, Microsoft and Google.
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smaxp writes:
It makes sense that Nokia would want to keep a feature phone customer that was not a candidate for a Windows Phone-powered Lumia by offering a low-cost Android smartphone.
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smaxp writes:
The idea that Nokia threatened to dump Windows Phone for Android to force the Microsoft buyout is just silly. Imagine Nokia’s Stephen Elop entering the room to negotiate the acquisition and threatening Microsoft’s Steve Balmer with "If you don’t buy us, we will switch to Android."
Maybe Elop did, but only as a joke, because the threat would just make Balmer laugh. Nokia engineers porting Android to Lumia hardware is one thing; Nokia engineers porting Android to Lumia hardware for a good business reason is an entirely different consideration.
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smaxp writes:
It’s just silly to think that the Nokia Lumia Android project was anything other than a spontaneous act of Nokia’s open source hacker community in response to curiosity about Android source code and the long, cold and dark Finnish winters.
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smaxp writes:
Google and the National Football League met recently, reigniting speculation that Google will disrupt cable and satellite television providers. By constructing its ultra high-speed Google Fiber internet service in Kansas City, Austin and Provo to create a next-generation internet test bed, Google has unintentionally reinforced public opinion that its wants to compete with pay TV.
Sorry to disappoint the disruption freaks, but it just ain’t so.
The casual Google observer is easily distracted by everything from the Android to the company’s self-driving cars, but here, Google’s raison d’etre is quite simple: Advertising.
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smaxp writes:
Apple’s big announcement was aimed at slowing Android's growth, but falls short of reaching the huge market opportunity in the developing world.
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smaxp writes:
With Samsung's Galaxy Gear officially joining the smartwatch market, let's look at what manufacturers have to do to make the technology a major category in the mobile market..
Samsung introduced the Galaxy Gear smartwatch last week. Google confirmed that it bought smartwatch maker Wimm. Sony introduced a smartwatch in June. And consumer icon Apple is rumored to have 100 people working on a smartwatch that it may introduce alongside a new iPhone today.
