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Canonical has released a stable version of Ubuntu Server 13.04, a.k.a. Raring Ringtail, promising graphical user interface (GUI) improvements and better performance. This server version of the popular Linux distribution is not a long term support (LTS) release, and comes ...
While the world's largest smartphone maker, Samsung, continues to dominate the global market, according to market research firm ComScore, Apple's supremacy in the US smartphone market is once again solidified. Although Android devices outnumber iOS devices worldwide, when it comes ...
Facebook Home, the Android-only software from the social media giant, brings a user's news feed directly onto his or her Android lock screen, making it easier to spend more time on the social network. Despite Zuckerberg's efforts in making the ...
A mobile device with a flexible, foldable display may seem like science fiction, but the concept is fast moving toward reality in the mobile tech world. Samsung and LG are on the verge of making the technology breakthrough this fall ...
Mobile data consumption is at an all time high, and is expected to continue growing at colossal rates - faster than data usage by desktop PCs and laptops. Mobile users are hanging up on costly 'cheap' calls, and using social ...
Popular networking platforms like Facebook generate revenues almost entirely through ads. Until recently, similar ad services haven't been available to businesses on Twitter, the leading micro blogging social networking site. Twitter ads were previously offered as an invite-only service for ...
Cloud technology with its disruptive nature has set a new paradigm for enterprise tech. Many IT executives are now looking beyond the hype surrounding cloud and virtualization, and putting in motion plans to effectively leverage the technology in practical ways.Venturing ...
IT research firm Gartner has revised its IT spending prediction for the year 2013. Gartner expected a trimmed IT investment outlook for the running year due to global economic concerns such as the US budget debates and the Cyprus dept ...
A new Pew Research study reveals that the social networking platform Twitter may not be a trustworthy barometer of public opinion. The year-long study found that Twitter reactions to the 2012 presidential campaign do not reflect general public opinion. According ...
Facebook news feed algorithms attract intense interest from an array of social media journalists and tech pundits ranging from Wall Street Journal contributors to billionaires like Mark Cuban. Facebook has built a successful business model around connections online, and many ...
Over the last few years law enforcement authorities across the US have been dealing with growing iPhone theft cases. Continued efforts to track stolen iPhones have led the NYPD and Apple to join forces in the fight against Apple gadget ...
Up until a decade or two ago, businesses relied on intuition and experience for decision making, but not so much on data analysis. Business Intelligence spending trends indicate that the enterprise culture is changing from 'governance by instinct' to 'governance ...
Rumors about the Samsung Galaxy S4 have been swirling in the tech media universe since a Samsung executive showed off a new smartphone processor at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. Gadget bloggers along with tech journalists are trying ...
IT research firm Ovum has released a report forecasting cloud computing trends in 2013. The report predicts an emergence of the cloud ecosystem in 2013, by analyzing how cloud vendors and consumers adapt to the technology both on their own ...
Back in December 2012, Google announced its plan to drop Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) support for non-business customers as part of its 'winter cleaning' exercise, in which many services considered unnecessary were discontinued. However, Google has honored Microsoft's request to extend ...
The Apple iOS 6.1.2 update to patch lockscreen passcode vulnerability and synchronization issues with Microsoft Exchange servers is expected to arrive before the end of February, according to the German blog site iFun and summarized by CNET. Apple acknowledged the ...
Few doubted that 2012 would be Android's year given how rapidly Android market share has risen in the last few years. Statistics provided in the latest IDC study confirmed Android's dominance in the smartphone space where its worldwide market share ...
The rapid adoption and evolving usage of smartphones has resulted in changing consumer behavior related to data usage. An Arieso study finds that smartphones have outpaced tablets in data consumption for the first time. In general, smartphone users are becoming ...
Google edged further ahead in the search business with its search market share rising to 67 percent in January, according to the industry tracker comScore. Google has strengthened its market position with a seemingly recession-proof business model, and it could ...
Research firm Forrester has released its 2013 IT Spending predictions. It is forecasting modest growth in IT investments after the US Congress reached a temporary agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. Forrester analysts believe emerging technologies with the potential ...