Capacity revealed at NYC presser Speaking at tonight’s Yahoo press event in New York City, Marissa Mayer and Yahoo’s Mobile Engineering senior vice president and Flickr product manager Adam Cahan revealed the new Flickr, offering users 1TB of photo storage in a “very metro” user interface. The new Flickr is now live. The new release [...]
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Yahoo debuts new Flickr; 1TB of storage space, new Android app
Posted by Gary on May 21, 2013
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Google engineers talk fragmentation, how to make Android work for emerging markets
Posted by Gary on May 19, 2013
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This week’s Google I/O saw no announcements of any new versions of the company’s mobile operating system, Android, and that may be because the team that is building the system is working to address the platform’s biggest problem: fragmentation. The issue of fragmentation arose this week in a panel discussion with assorted members of the [...]
Frostbite Go engine coming to iOS, Android
Posted by Gary on May 15, 2013
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May carry over some Battlefield 4 technology Games publisher EA is planning to bring the Frostbite engine to iOS and Android, according to the company’s website. “One of our most exciting current projects is called Frostbite Go, a mobile division empowering EA game developers with Frostbite’s proven excellent workflows and features to bring true Frostbite [...]
BlackBerry BBM coming to Apple’s iOS, Google Android this summer
Posted by Gary on May 15, 2013
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BlackBerry’s BBM messaging service will go cross-platform this summer, when official BBM applications will launch on iOS and Android. BBM will be compatible with iOS 6 and Android 4.0 when it debuts this summer. The initial release will include multi-person chats, as well as the ability to share photos and voice notes. The move will [...]
Google’s Android on 59.5% of all ‘smart mobile devices’ shipped in Q1, Apple at 19.3%
Posted by Gary on May 10, 2013
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According to research firm Canalys, Google’s Android platform continues to dominate the worldwide mobile marketplace as the OS powered 59.5 percent of the nearly 310 million smart mobile devices shipped in the first quarter, while Apple managed to grow its iOS and OS X presence to a 19.3 percent share.In a report on Thursday, Canalys [...]
ACLU: Android fragmentation creates privacy risk
Posted by Gary on April 21, 2013
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The slow update schedule for smartphones running Google’s Android operating system, along with the resulting fragmentation in OS versions on the platform, creates a security risk for owners of those phones, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to look into the policies of U.S. wireless [...]
Google’s Android has flatlined in the U.S. as Apple’s iPhone steals all growth
Posted by Gary on April 19, 2013
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Smartphone sales at AT&T and Verizon Wireless over the past two years show that Android isn’t growing in the U.S. and that all new growth is coming from Apple’s iPhone. A report by Benedict Evans highlights the clearly evident trends among American iPhone carriers (above). Android is a commodity sale Evans also drew attention to [...]
Why the NYPD is moving to Android
Posted by Gary on April 13, 2013
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It’s easy enough to look at any smartphone and call it a tiny computer, but in many ways the joke is on whoever doesn’t think these pocket machines are capable of replacing computers. In the case of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), it makes all the sense in the world to switch from [...]