Over a billion people today carry Android smartphones—devices that are more powerful than the computers we used just a few years ago.For many, these phones have become essential tools to help us complete important work tasks like checking email, editing documents, reviewing sales pipelines and approving deals. But for the majority of workers, smartphones and tablets are underutilized in the workplace. Their business and innovation potential remain largely untapped.Today we're announcing the Android for Work program to tap into that potential....
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
Google’s Android has gobbled up market share world wide, now accounting for over 80% of all smartphone shipped globally. But when it comes to actually making money, Apple is eating all the profits as it continues its focus on premium devices. Today Strategy Analytics said that Apple in Q4 last year accounted for 89% of all smartphone profits, equating to $18.8 billion, with Android taking only 11%, or $2.4 billion.
The...
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Apple broke new ground last year by launching a 64-bit mobile processor, the first of its kind in the mobile industry. Since then, a number of other chip makers have put their 64-bit ambitions into overdrive to keep pace including Samsung.
The Korean tech giant expects to join the 64-bit race later this year. During a recent chat with CNET at Mobile World Congress, Kyushik Hong, vice president of marketing for Samsung's system LSI business, said 64-bit was very important in the sense that there is a real demand regardless...
Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Division just announced its first developer event for Project Ara, a modular smarpthone, yesterday, and a new follow-up profile by TIMEindicates we could see the device come to market by next year, with a $50 price tag to start. The key phrase there is “to start,” however, as this smartphone with swappable components could get a lot pricier, very quickly.
Ara is designed to offer consumers choice,...
Google is not abandoning Project Ara, after taking over the ambitious experimental smartphone design concept along with the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group from Motorola. ATAP only just announced Tango, its 3D-environment sensor for mobile devices, and now it’s revealing a two-day developer conference April 15 and 16 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Ara, for those who aren’t familiar, is a modular smartphone project that would allow users to swap out interchangeable parts to give their device...
Users of mobile devices running Google's Android operating system may have to think twice and check their math before downloading and installing the popular WhatsApp application.Panda Security said perpetrators of the new attack used advertising on Facebook to trick victims into downloading installing rogue apps."Cyber-criminals are always trying to attract people’s attention in order to carry out their crimes. So it should be no surprise that they have now found a combined way of using Facebook (the world’s largest social network),...
NOKIA HAS REVEALED to The E-Information that its Imaging software development kit (SDK) likely will come to its Nokia X platform, enabling developers to build high-end photography apps for its low-end, Android-based smartphones.Nokia's Imaging SDK allows developers to create imaging apps for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.1, such as Nokia's own Creative Studio app that it boasts was built using the developer kit.However, Windows Phones didn't feature heavily at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC), as Nokia instead focused on...
The stark and sterile white room in an industrial park in Port-au-Prince is a world away from the chaos and colour of the annual carnival, but both are being touted as part of a new "Made in Haiti" brand.
The clean room, to use its official name, is a 2,000 sq ft space where Haiti's first tablet computers are assembled. There are three models of the Surtab Android tablets, the most expensive of which is not dissimilar to an iPad Mini or Samsung Galaxy – but at half the price.
"They show that Haiti can do hi-tech manufacturing...
Boeing unveiled its new, ultra-secure “Boeing Black ” smartphone on Wednesday, saying it plans to sell the modular device to government agencies and companies engaged in contractual activities with those agencies related to defense and homeland security.
“The U.S. defense and security communities demand trusted access to data to accomplish their missions. Despite the continuous innovation in commercial mobile technology, current devices are not designed from inception with the security and flexibility needed to match their evolving...
If you thought Snapchat’s self-destructing pictures were cool, wait till you get a load of this. US company Boeing has unveiled a new smartphone that appears to come straight from a James Bond spy movie.In addition to encrypting your communication over the phone, any attempt to open the casing of the Boeing Black smartphone deletes all data and rendering the device inoperable. The secure phone marks an extension of the communications arm of the Chicago-based aerospace and defense contractor, which is best known for jetliners and fighter planes.Made...
US aerospace firm Boeing has made a secure smartphone that will destroy its data and render itself inoperable if tampered with.
The phone has been designed with the needs of the "US defense and security communities" in mind, and attempts to satisfy security requirements not met by current devices, according to Boeing .
The phone is what Boeing terms a "sealed device", due to the physical and digital countermeasures designed to...
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Manufacturers desperately wanted Android fans to use keyboards in the beginning. Heck, the first Android handset to launch featured one, and many devices followed suit. In a world where mobile was very clearly heading toward touch-only, many were resistant to the change, or at least too stubborn to admit they had no clue what to do. Some companies adapted, while others did not.At the time, this company had a very apparent design philosophy, though...
For over three years, IT professional Sukhdeep Singh has been running an online magazine focussed on the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in India.
After work hours, a group of 10 scattered around the country have doubled as editors, tech support and even done on-the-ground reporting on events and issues that involve the community. Last week, on Valentine’s Day, the group launched an official app for the magazine, called ‘Gaylaxy’, and with it plans to do much more than a magazine.
“Currently all we have is a lot of dating...
Earlier this week, America’s two predominant GSM carriers, T-Mobile and AT&T announced they had received clearance to start pushing the latest version of Kit Kat, 4.4.2 onto their flagship HTC One models. According to reports, that push has now begun for T-Mobile. The AT&T model should start pushing out shortly.
The original “promise” from HTC is that they would have the latest update pushed within a 90 day window. That announcement was made a little over 90 days ago in October, but they have at least stayed true and pushed the latest...
This coming week should have plenty of Android news from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This past week in the Android world wasn’t quiet though. Reported details of the HTC Desire 8 leaked out in advance of MWC. The Desire 8 may be the biggest news from HTC at the show because the company isn’t expected to introduce its next flagship phone until March 25.That means the Desire 8 will be a more affordable device and the alleged specifications show exactly that: A 1.6 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400, 1.5 GB of memory, 8 GB of internal...
Google, known for many mysterious and discreet projects in tech field, has come out with another innovative breakthrough in an experimental Android-powered smartphone with powerful 3D sensors called Project Tango.
The project is part of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group and it is still in early stages of development. The first 200 prototypes will be available for developers by mid-March, 2014 and Google is handpicking those whom it would send the prototypes.
“The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale...
Reports have for a while indicated Google may be working on a Nexus 8 tablet, and the latest claim which is being said to launch in July this year, along with the next Android version, said to be v4.5.It has being speculated that the search giant might be shifting away from its 7-inch devices because of the high competitiveness of the segment, which would be much less in the 8-inch bracket. Some of the popular 8-inch tablets in the market are Apple iPad Mini, Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 and LG G Pad 8.3.
As claimed in a report by...
Apologies for grabbing this so late, but for those of you who haven’t already downloaded and installed it, 4.4.2 is finally here for the Magenta-flavored HTC One. It landed late last night, very inconveniently while I was in the middle of travelling to Barcelona for this year’s MWC conference.
As for the update, it marks the start of HTC’s campaign to ensure that all future devices will support the latest software updates, and will receive them...
Friday, February 21, 2014
Android 4.4 KitKat change log for US Cellular Samsung Galaxy S4 US Cellular
Several Samsung Galaxy models are now receiving the Android 4.4 KitKat update just days after the Korean manufacturer officially announced its rollout plans.
Stateside, the U.S. Cellular Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 models are both now receiving the new operating system, while the international Galaxy S4 is now updating in Russia. After...
Nike has announced it is advertising for Android SDK developers, suggesting the long-term monogamous relationship with Apple could be coming to an end.Thanks to the Bluetooth LE functionality offered by Apple, Nike has previously used iOS as the only mobile platform compatible with its devices such as the Fuel Band SE and running trainer sensors.However, the release of Android KitKat has now brought Bluetooth LE connectivity to the Android platform and it looks like Nike is ready to jump on board.The listing advertises for nine Android developers...
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