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Android vaults over iOS in Europe

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This will definitely rattle Apple’s cage, even for just a moment.

According to study conducted by ComScore, a digital research company, the Android mobile operating system has increased in popularity in five significant European markets, overtaking Apple’s iOS, and becoming the second most popular mobile operating system in the area.

The ComScore study revealed that Android usage has dramatically increased over the year and is now firmly entrenched in second place behind Nokia’s Symbian OS, which is still the top mobile platform in many areas in Europe. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 14, 2011 @ 4:34 pm

Texting preference rising among Americans

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If you’re an American and you’ve noticed that you’re texting more than you’ve been calling your friends then you’re part of the rising number of Americans who are beginning to prefer to text people rather than call them.

Based on a study made by Pew Internet, nearly thirty-one percent of Americans now prefer to communicate with their friends and relatives through text messages using their mobile phones instead of calling them up and speaking to them over the phone. The group that has the most prevalent use of text messages is the youth, which average about 110 text messages a day. The median for the same group was pegged at 50 text messages daily. Ten percent of people between the ages of 18 to 24 have been reported to send or receive about 200 text messages daily. The next age group, people between the ages of 25 to 34, have an average of about 42 text messages a day. Succeeding age groups show decrease in the number of daily text messages as they grow older, with the oldest group – the ones from 65 years old and older – average about 5 text messages a day.

One of the reasons text messages is on the rise is its apparent immediacy. Small text messages to socialize with friends is something that is most common among the youth and a phone call is just too much compared to just simple text message. Communication that is being broken down into small fragments seem to be reflective of the way communication and socialization works in an internet age where everyone is virtually connected, and text messaging is just one manifestation of this.

Originally posted on September 20, 2011 @ 10:51 am

Windows 8 will run Windows Phone 7 apps?

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An almost universal computing environment. This is what the future will look like if reported information about Windows 8 is true.

According to Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang, he thinks that Microsoft’s next generation computer and tablet operating system, Windows 8, will be able to recognize and run apps that have been developed and coded for the Windows Mobile Phone 7 operating system – which is the new mobile operating system developed by the software giant. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 7, 2011 @ 12:29 pm

The Benefits of a Work Phone Inside Your Phone

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The company VMware, a leader in the virtual machine segment, has introduced new technologies allowing employees to use personal mobile devices for work. At the same time, the applications on these phones that are related to work will be controlled by means of a number of novel security settings. One example of one such state of the art device is Horizon Mobile, which the company introduced last week. This device can operate a virtual machine of a work Smartphone that is inside your personal phone. Other devices, thanks to which you can benefit from a work phone inside your personal one, include applications that can deliver a virtual desktop image to your desktop computer at work and applications that can deliver other work-related graphics and designs to your Smartphone or tablet. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 8, 2011 @ 7:16 am

A Visual History Of Telephones

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In less than 2 decades mobile (or cell) phones have become one of the most defining communication devices in history. Almost every one young and old owns at least one mobile phone today. Many people own two, or sometimes more! For whatever reason, communication equipment has been one of the major focuses of the advancing world of technology. Before communication tools were very limited, people spent quite a lot to communicate with their loved ones and even business partners across sea, that is why when cellular phones were invented, everyone grabbed a piece of it and so the revolution of mobile phones began. Today, mobile phones do not just allow you to communicate easily with just about anybody, they allow you to share moments by the second with people you want to connect with.

Below is a visual history of phones and mobile phones.

A Visual History Of Telephones

Created by Infographiclabs

Originally posted on September 2, 2011 @ 12:50 am