Samsung scored a win today, as Apple agreed in a court filing to pull its infringement claims against the Galaxy S III Mini. The device had been accused along with an assortment of other devices in the second legal battle the two companies are engaged in with Judge Lucy Koh. Apple had included...
Narrowing the field
The Pew Research Center just released some data on the growing adoption of ebooks, but buried amongst its survey data was a more interesting tidbit — the group's latest survey shows that a full 25 percent of Americans own some type of tablet....
According to one mobile app metrics firm, Instagram appears to be suffering in the wake of its recent terms of service debacle. AppData tracks the number of daily, weekly, and monthly users of apps that can connect to Facebook, and its recent daily data shows a 25 percent decline in daily users of Instagram over the last seven days — previous daily usage counts were nearly 16 million, while...
Fujitsu’s easy-to-use smartphones for seniors are headed overseas, reports the Asahi Shimbun. When we first ran into the company’s Raku Raku smartphone at Docomo’s summer launch event we were impressed with its simplified interface, wondering whether it would carch on among Japan’s aging citizenry. The company’s president Masami Yamamoto said that while the company thinks the move can help bolster its shipment numbers — from 8 million in 2012 to a projected 10 million in 2014 — the company has no plans to market its high-end Arrows phones outside Japan.
Limits the home screen to just a few easy-to-use apps
The Raku Raku smartphone runs a modified version of Android 4.0 that uses larger, highly legible text, and limits the home screen to just a few easy-to-use apps such as a dialer, phone book, email, and weather...
Smartphone screen, dumbphone smarts
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The first developer kits for the highly-anticipated Ouya gaming console are shipping out earlier than expected. As pointed out by SlashGear, one customer has posted the text of their shipping notification in a thread over at the Ouya forums, with several individuals on Twitter also remarking that...
Android phones used to be for the hyper-nerds, who happily sacrificed simplicity for customization, ease of use for sheer horsepower. But now you don't have to trade – whether you just got a Nexus 4, a Galaxy S III, a One X+, or something...
Happy Holidays! Today may be Christmas, but there are plenty of reasons you've gotten a new gadget in the last few weeks. It's Hanukah season, and give-gifts-to-your-co-workers season, and Secret-Santa season — plus it's possible you had the grave misfortune of being born...
