Archive for September, 2010
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Sienna Leigh may be only three but she's tech-savvy, knows her way around an iPad, and likes a little online retail therapy from time to time.
The Sydney toddler settles down in a chair with the iPad she is supposed to share with her siblings and lets her fingers do the ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
By day, Jasper Kyle earns his keep as a gymnastic coach. At the weekend, he's the director, scriptwriter and actor in Protocol Aye Aye, a short film about flesh-eating zombies shot entirely on a mobile phone.
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
Apple iPhone 4 users are reporting that a problem the company's chief executive, Steve Jobs, pledged to fix in the next software update has not been fixed.
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Sunday, September 12th, 2010
Apple is easing restrictions for building iPhone and iPad applications, a move that should allow for the use of third-party tools such as Adobe Systems' Flash software and ease tension between the two companies.
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
New Skype apps for the iPhone and Symbian platforms will allow mobile users to bypass telco voice networks completely, making calls using the internet over the 3G data network.
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous.
Now HTC, a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Nokia, the world's biggest mobile maker by volume, will introduce new smartphone models next week at its annual media and industry event, aiming to assure investors the company is on track to recovery.
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Monday, September 6th, 2010
Apple has refused to allow its iPhones to be included in the UK's first-ever green ranking scheme for mobile phones.
The scheme gives phones a rating of zero to five based on their environmental footprint and major manufacturers including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung have signed up. The network O2, which ...
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Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Computer maker Acer is entering the Australian smartphone market for the first time with a range of five phones based on the Google Android platform.
Android has exploded in the past year and analysts are predicting it will be the leading mobile phone platform globally by 2012.
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Using mobiles for just calls and texting is a thing of the past, as a third of Australians now check emails on their handsets and more than 70 per cent access mobile entertainment and information services.
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