Latest Smartphones News

• 21 May 2013

• News: Gartner analysts on the 'Nexus of Forces'

  What are the new forces that are transforming the way people and businesses relate to technology?

• News: Unity adds free mobile game development for Android and iOS

  Unity Technologies has added the ability to develop for Android and iOS games for free using its platform.

• News: Pentagon clearance for iOS could open even more doors for Apple in the private sector

  The Pentagon's decision to grant Apple the security clearance required for iOS 6 devices to go head-to-head with BlackBerry 10 and certain Samsung Galaxy S4 devices on secure military networks could have with a cascading effect that spills over into the private sector.

• News: Sprint hikes bid for Clearwire to counter Dish's offer

  Sprint Nextel has increased its offer to buy out Clearwire, bidding US$3.40 per share, to counter a competing offer by Dish Network.

• News: OpenGL developer to create API for controlling smartphone cameras

  The Khronos Group has announced plans to create an open and royalty-free application programming interface for controlling mobile and embedded cameras and sensors, giving developers access to features such as burst modes and flash.

• News: The iPhone's big lead in customer satisfaction is gone

  Apple's dominance in smartphone customer satisfaction faded last year, with rivals like Samsung and Motorola dramatically closing the gap, a national survey said today.

• News: SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use

  Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers.

• News: Optus launches 4G TD-LTE in Canberra

  Optus has launched a faster version of LTE in Canberra, but so far the technology only supports 4G dongles.

• News: Nokia Siemens unveils tools to boost mobile video performance

  Mobile network builder Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled tools to optimize video performance on mobile devices on Monday, just in time for the CTIA Wireless trade show that begins Tuesday in Las Vegas.

• 20 May 2013

• News: City Circle mobile coverage a 15 year project

  Optus says the project that brought mobile phone coverage into Sydney's train tunnels was 15 years in the making.

• News: What I'm Playing: A plethora of ports

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• News: Jolla announces first Sailfish-based smartphone

  Finnish startup Jolla has announced its first smartphone, which shows off its Sailfish OS on a 4.5-inch screen.

• News: Corning taps into optical fiber for better indoor wireless

  Bringing wireless indoors, which was once just a matter of antennas carrying a few cellular bands so people could get phone calls, has grown far more complex and demanding in the age of Wi-Fi, multiple radio bands and more powerful antennas.

• News: Lawmakers seek Google Glass privacy plan

  Eight members of Congress have written an open letter to Google CEO Larry Page that outlines privacy concerns about the Internet vendor's computerized eyeglasses.

• News: Jolla announces first Sailfish-based smartphone

  Finnish startup Jolla has announced its first smartphone, which shows off its Sailfish OS on a 4.5-inch screen.

• News: Microsoft's $300M Nook investment hasn't paid off -- yet

  Microsoft has gotten next to nothing from its $300 million investment in Barnes & Noble, analysts said, but it may reap some rewards as it prepares to ship smaller tablets.

• News: Canadian Tire forgoes BYOD, issues BlackBerries to workers

  Canadian Tire began issuing thousands of BlackBerry Q10 smartphones to corporate employees in Toronto after rolling out Z10 models weeks earlier.

• 18 May 2013

• News: iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending May 17

  There's nothing like exclusive, high resolution, leaked photographs of arcane internal iPhone components to trigger the gaga reflex in the iOSphere. It takes skill, honed by long experience with rumoring, to read into them far, far more than is actually there.

• 17 May 2013

• News: Will the Feds ever relax the rules on using phones in flight?

  Hop on an Emirates flight in Dubai and get up to cruising altitude. You realize you forgot to tell your assistant to make some crucial plans when you arrive at your destination. No problem: Just take out your cell phone and make a quick phone call.

• News: At Google I/O, developer services hogged the spotlight

  Forget Glass, self-driving cars or a smartwatch. Developers, not physical consumer products, were Google's darlings at the company's annual I/O conference this week.

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