Tag: Apple
Rockstar Consortium to end patent wars, sells 4,000 patents
Early Christmas gift or hell freezing over (again)? Rockstar Consortium (not to be confused with Rockstar, the game developers) and patent clearinghouse RPX have...
Samsung working out deal to compete with Apple Pay
The relatively warm acceptance of Apple Pay – Apple’s wireless payment system that allows owners of the latest iPhone models to wave their smartphone...
Leak outs possible HTC One M9 details, bigger screen, new camera tech
Chinese sources have leaked what they purport to be specs of the new HTC flagship phone that will be launched possibly during the Mobile...
Samsung Proximity to take on Apple’s iBeacon technology
It has now become a race as to which proprietary technology will be able to revolutionize the way merchants and businesses interact with our...
Ex-iPhone users can now deregister iMessage
Apple’s iMessage bug has been affecting a lot of Android users but it’s only now that the Cupertino company has finally released some fixes....
84% of global smartphone shipments in Q3 were Android devices
The latest metrics are in from Strategy Analytics looking at the share of the global smartphone ecosystem held by each mobile operating system. The...
Fingerprint-locked smartphones may be used as evidence
A ruling by a judge in Virginia Beach in an attempted murder case may very well change how the court views fingerprint-locked gadgets as...
Latest Q3 2014 IDC figures show Xiaomi now 3rd in smartphones shipped
While some brands and markets may have already plateaued when it comes to smartphone consumption, there are still those in the emerging market that...
Another pharmaceutical chain drops NFC payments
A few days after Rite Aid pharmacies announced they were not accepting any more payments from NFC mobile payment systems like Google Wallet, another...
Google Now ahead of Siri, Bing in search result accuracy
Smartphone, smartphone in my hand, who's the fairest of them all? Aside from our bad rhyming skills, the answer to that question must be...
Consumer Reports look into #bendgate, Galaxy Note 3 is strong
We all know about the trending issue about Apple’s new iPhones – at least we assume most of us know, those who have not...
Galaxy Note 3 pitted against iPhone 6 Plus in #bendgate test
Now that the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and iOS 8 are in the hands of users, the real-world testing begins. And so do...