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Als Kind war es ein verboten süßer Spaß, mit einem Periskop um Ecken zu sehen und sich wie ein Meisterspion zu fühlen. Für große Kinder und Hobby-Spitzel gibt es einen Periskop-Aufsatz für Smartphone-Kameras, der relativ unauffällig unfreiwillige Fotos knipsen lässt. Weiterlesen →

Fondée en 2011 par d'anciens salariés de Nokia, la start-up Jolla a présenté son premier smartphone. Equipé du nouveau système d'exploitation Sailfish, Jolla espère vendre un million d’appareils en un an sur les marchés chinois, européen et nord-africain. Les analystes sont sceptiques.

Former Nokia Team Unveils New Smartphone

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

Real-time parking startup ParkMe wants to help find you parking -- in real-time. The company, which originally started out on the Web, has been making a big push behind mobile apps, which is really smart, because most times when you're looking for parking, you're not on a PC, but you have a smartphone nearby. And it just launched on Android.

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

x_IamSpartacus_x writes "Jolla, the Finnish company that continued Nokia's work on the MeeGo mobile platform, announced details of its first smartphone on Monday. Availability for the Jolla device is expected by year end and can be pre-ordered now; the phone will be priced at no more than €399 (US $512.26). The Jolla hardware looks similar to that of Nokia's Lumia, with...

A group of ex-Nokia employees who quit over the company's decision to abandon the planned MeeGo operating system in favour of Windows presented their own smartphone on Monday, hoping to rival the sector's giants.

A group of ex-Nokia employees who quit over the company's decision to abandon the planned MeeGo operating system in favour of Windows presented their own smartphone on Monday, hoping to rival the sector's giants.

Today, remotely operated robot doctors are zipping around intensive care units while smartphone apps beam vital signs from ambulance to hospital. Telemedicine is the wave of the future, but you might be surprised to learn that it has been for nearly a century.Read more...    

Spieler geben mittlerweile mehr Geld für Smartphone-Spiele aus als für Handheld-Spiele. Vor allem in Gratis-Apps stecken sie ihr Geld. Denn was als kostenlos angepriesen wird, kann richtig teuer werden.

Central bank action and growing signs of economic revival lift UK shares closer to all time highAs leading shares hit heights not seen for almost 13 years, Royal Bank of Scotland was the day's biggest riser.The bank ended 15.1p higher at 351.9p after analysts at Numis raised their recommendation from hold to buy and their target price from 308p to 410p....

Easing component restrictions mean more HTC One production    

Travel insurance has failed to move with the times, meaning that customers are not properly covered for modern gadgets and valuables.    

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A group of ex-Nokia software developers unveiled its first smartphone on Monday, aiming to prove their former employer wrong by making a success of a technology dropped by the Finnish mobile phone maker.

Jolla has finally taken the wraps off the smartphone hardware that will be paired with its "unlike" Sailfish UI. Being a startup is challenging enough in any business sector but Jolla is seeking to compete in the fiercely competitive smartphone space against Samsung and Apple. So it's hard not to dismiss their efforts as too late. But it's a lot harder to accuse them of...

When a band of engineers fled Nokia in 2012 to develop a MeeGo-derived OS called Sailfish, they needed a vehicle to carry the software. And this is it: the first Jolla phone, which is as quirky as the OS it runs.Read more...    

Although there's little glory in bronze, BlackBerry and Microsoft are battling for third position in the smartphone market.

(Phys.org) —Pink is the color of princess fairy-tale gowns, magic slippers, upscale cupcake icing, and everything else favorable to girls who just want to be girls. "Ladyphones" appear to be concepts for female-targeted phone designs, and now NEC is joining manufacturers fashioning pink smartphones as a female fashion accessory. But this would not be a females-first....

Researchers are developing a revolutionary new technology that puts the mobile phone on the palm of your hand – literally.

There is a misperception about the new Google Cloud Platform that the company put into general availability last week at Google I/O. It's not a brand new platform. It's what Google has used for years. It is Google's foundation. It is what makes Google, Google. And now it's open for the first time to developers and businesses. Google Platform is new in the sense that anyone...

It’s been a little over a year since Google started teasing something it called “Project Glass.” The futuristic, wearable computer that would change the way that you interact with the world was nothing more than a series of rumors for months before it was “formally introduced” in April 2012. Not known for hardware and not having a current bonafide physical device...

If you've ever had your smartphone feel too hot after a long bout of Facebook, email, and taking photos or video, NEC hopes to solve that with its new liquid-cooled smartphone. The NEC Medias X 06E sports a liquid cooling pipe behind the display and next to the processor. NEC said this will transfer heat away from the phone's processor through repeated evaporation and...

Greg Sullivan, Microsoft's Windows Phone marketing lead, was grinning from ear to ear when we sat down for an interview earlier this week. Market research firm IDC had just anointed his phone platform a solid Number 3, beating the once-dominant Blackberry platform for the first time. "It’s very refreshing," Sullivan told me. Granted, Windows Phone and Blackberry are...

Mientras acaba la crisis se pueden diseñar estrategias de ahorro e inversión que generen ingresos de forma continuada. Las aplicaciones para comparar precios pueden ayudar a las familias

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Google Glass. Last week, I became the first British newspaper journalist invited to 'test-drive' the £1,000 device.

Editor's note:  Keith Teare is the founder of just.me and a partner at Archimedes Labs. He is also the co-founder of TechCrunch. This was a momentous week for those of us who are watching the rapid transition that is taking place from desktop computing to mobile., and particularly for those focused on mobile-social as I am due to my job at just.me. Here...

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

Tuesday sees the launch of iMember, which invites consumers to enter the names of organisations to which they belong and find out what deals are on offer.

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

At the beginning of this year, Facebook overtook Google Maps as the most-used mobile app in the U.S. The social network giant also recently introduced a controversial new mobile interface, Facebook Home. Earlier this week, Home hit 1 million downloads. Love it or hate it (or both), Facebook is a cornerstone of the mobile experience But being in the spotlight means taking...

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

Oh HTC. You've produced one of the finest Android smartphones ever (seriously, just look at all these reviews), but you've faced more than your share of challenges when it came to actually pumping your top-tier One smartphone. As it happens, that may all soon change. FocusTaiwan reported earlier today that HTC is preparing to pump out more of its wonderful Ones in short...

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

Ellicott Dredges Baltimore, Maryland   1:20 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, Baltimore!  (Applause.)  Well, it is wonderful to see all of you.  Give Duncan a big round of applause for the great introduction.  (Applause.)  I want to thank all of you for the warm welcome, the great hospitality.  And I tell you what, I’m going to return the favor by hosting your...

Samsung's programmable TecTile technology is finally coming to the Galaxy S4. TecTiles are Samsung's near-field communications (NFC) stickers that be placed around the house or car, so you can automate certain tasks Want to dim the lights and not get up from the couch? How about activate a media player from afar? All you'll need to do is to tap your Samsung smartphone...

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

Der Vorverkauf für das erste Fair-Trade-Smartphone hat begonnen. Technisch wird es wohl konkurrenzfähig sein. Das gilt auch für die Preisvorstellungen des Herstellers.

BlackBerry's share of the smartphone market on its home turf is on the rise, according to new research from Raymond James.

Samsung Galaxy S 4 is on track to pass 10 million in sales next week, which would make it the fastest-selling Galaxy S device in history The not-very-precise figure comes from Samsung CEO J.K. Shin, who told it to reporters in South Korea “We are confident that we will pass more than 10 million sales of the S4 next week. It is selling much faster than the previous model...

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

Android's operating system reportedly accounts for 75 percent of global Smartphone platform. As per figures released by IDC, Android leads the list with 162.1 million shipments in its first quarter of 2013.

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

Here’s the smartphone technology that alerts a doctor when patients are headed for trouble.At the Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, nurses can see into the lives of some diabetes patients even when they’re not at the clinic. If a specific patient starts acting lethargic, or making lengthy calls to his mom, a green box representing him on an online...

Emotions play tricks on our memories, making our recollections of events much happier or heart-wrenching than they actually were. Smartphone app Expereal seeks to cut through those cognitive traps by allowing you to rate your day on a 10-point scale and organizing that data into easy-to-read charts.

CrowdOptic, a startup with technology for identifying where people are pointing their smartphone cameras, has raised another $1 million in funding. When I've spoken to the team in the past, they've emphasized the ways this could be used to create new types of social interactions — if people are attending a live event and pointing their cameras at the same thing, they...

NVIDIA brought its new Shield handheld gaming system to Google I/O this year, and was showing off a near production device. The Shield made its debut at CES this year, surprising most since it's a consumer handheld device from a company that generally makes internal components, but it has some neat tricks up its sleeve, including a Tegra 4 chipset, 2GB of RAM, a 5-inch...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp's new CEO Brian Krzanich said on Thursday that under his leadership the top chipmaker will be more responsive to customers in an intensified focus on the fast-growing smartphone and tablet market where it lags its rivals.

Raymond James‘s Tavis McCourt this afternoon writes that he is raising his growth estimate for smartphones after reviewing Q1 sales data from Gartner published with that firm’s global sales report on Tuesday. McCourt now sees smartphone unit sales rising 36% this year, higher than a prior projection for growth in a range of 25% to [...]

Intel Corp.'s new chief executive vowed Thursday to rapidly grow the company's presence in the tablet and smartphone markets at a shareholder meeting that formalized a major management shift for the Silicon Valley chip giant.

There's a new rifle in town, and it's not a simple new weapon. It's a high-tech smart rifle that allegedly makes even novice shooters very accurate. With its lasers, built-in computer and color graphic display, you could say it's a rifle with its own brain and eyes. "Think of it like a smart rifle. You have a smart car; you got a smartphone; well, now we have a smart rifle,"...

As I wrapped up the last interview with Intel's outgoing CEO, Paul Otellini, for my feature on his legacy, he strode over to the whiteboard in the conference room. As he began to draw, he joked that he was showing me the "history of the computer industry in one chart." (I'm not sure if he knew 'in one chart' posts are one of our specialties.) He'd shown this chart to Intel's...

Samsung dominates the Android market    

First time accepted submitter exomondo writes "Google has given Microsoft until May 22nd to pull their Windows Phone 8 YouTube app from the marketplace and disable it on customer devices. It not only includes a built-in ad blocker but also allows users to download videos and doesn't impose device-specific streaming restrictions outlined in the YouTube Terms Of Service....

Marken-Wirrwarr beim einstigen Online-Broker: Cortal Consors will zur Vollbank für die Smartphone-Generation werden und führt neue Produkte unter dem Namen Hello Bank ein. Die Kunden sollen ein Wörtchen mitreden können.

Japanese electronics firm, Panasonic has set foot in the Indian mobile market with the launch of its ever first Smartphone, P51

Telefonica is today announcing a deal with Samsung that will see it make an even bigger move into the area of carrier billing. Samsung will integrate the carrier's billing backend directly into its own mobile services, meaning that the Telefonica customers (it has 316 million worldwide) who use the Samsung Hub and Samsung Apps portals on Samsung smartphones will be able...

Fighting over table scraps.

Newcomer Alcatel One Touch will launch its first smartphone in the U.S. this month, but it doesn't impress.

It may seem like an Android and iOS world, and that's because it is. The two mobile operating systems made up 92% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013. New data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) reveals Apple and Google's mobile platforms far exceed other competitors. Together, they shipped 199.5 million units across the globe during...

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

Utl.: Patienten im Orthopädischen Spital Speising profitieren künftig von Smartphone-ähnlichen Navigationssensoren bei der Implantation von Knieprothesen. Ein Novum in ganz Europa. = Wien (OTS) - Bei vielen orthopädischen Operationen - zum Beispiel beim künstlichen Gelenkersatz - …

HTC's new One is a smartphone I like to hold but don't like to use. I love its design and some of its top features. But I found other key features disappointing, including the One's revamped interface, which is a confusing mess.

Mixing a perfect drink is usually left to skilled bartenders, but a new device and app combination may help regular folks become cocktail-creating experts in no time After placing a glass on the Barman, a drink-mixing platform, users must pick the drink they want to make and select their drink size. The device then tells them what to pour, and when. Its "progress indicator"...

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.

With its slim new Lumia 925, the smartphone manufacturer hopes to win over new customers    

Google isn't about search, apps, or devices. Those are just vehicles, and there's no destination. That's because Larry Page's Google is on an unending pursuit of the future, not just next quarter's earnings. The scattershot of projects Google revealed today at I/O had just one unifying factor: They further that pursuit, or empower the curiosity of others.

Apple had a bit of a head start when it came to mobile software sales, since it launched its App Store earlier than the Android Market (which would later become what we call Google Play today). But the gap was more pronounced in terms of downloads when they kicked off, but lately the gap has been closing, and today both Play and the App Store announced very close milestones....

As the tablet and smartphone markets explode, the market is continually bombarded with accessories to those markets. In particular, covers, protectors and bags tailor-made for a specific device model have flooded the market.