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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Have you ever wondered if there was a greater insult to your elegant and aluminum bedecked Mac than using it to run Windows? Sure, I understand. You HAVE to use Windows. For work. I get it, and I apologize. BlueStacks has officially outdone this hybrid atrocity, releasing software which allows a small set of stock, bare bones Android apps to run on the Machines Which Steve Built. The start-up has already joined the two names...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has lost much of its market share in recent years to the Android and iOS platforms. Along the way employees and executives alike have lost their jobs. But the biggest loss of all for BlackBerry users may be the physical keyboard. At May’s BlackBerry World 2012 Conference in Orlando, Fl. RIM President and CEO Thorsten Heins took the stage to unveil new BlackBerry software. The BlackBerrry 10 hardware, which has reportedly...
NEW YORK, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Babylon.com, the leading provider of language solutions [http://www.babylon.com/products ], released the translation mobile applications suite in dozens of different languages, available for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120621/538513 ) Babylon has gained increased attention worldwide by continuously improving its software and products to keep users up-to-date on the...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com This weekend, I was invited over to a housewarming party. While enjoying some beverages and a baseball game, I looked to my right and saw something that would change my life forever: The very first Windows Phone I had ever seen in the wild. I’m no homebody. I like to get out, to see things, to mingle amongst the Johnny and Jane Q's of the world. People will often approach me and say, “You appear to be a man of the people, friend of the little...
South Korean-based manufacturer Samsung, this week became the latest company to join the Linux Foundation with a contribution of $500,000. The Linux Foundation, established in 2007, is a nonprofit consortium of technology firms devoted to developing and promoting Linux standards. By taking platinum membership of the Foundation, Samsung gains a seat on the board and joins just six other firms, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel, NEC, Oracle, and Qualcomm. A statement from the Foundation reads, “This...
RESTON, Va., June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AnyPresence, a leading provider of enterprise mobile solutions, today announced the availability of a mobile platform and self-service solutions to meet emerging customer demands within the utilities sector. Designed specifically for utilities serving residential and commercial buildings, the solution empowers utility customers to perform common self-service functions such as account management, usage analysis, and outage reporting, directly...
LIMASSOL, Cyprus, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MetaQuotes Software Corp [http://www.metaquotes.net/en/metatrader4/mobile_trading ], a well-known developer of trading platforms for financial markets, released a new version of its MetaTrader 4 Android mobile terminal for those on the go. In addition to allowing trades to be made, the application analyses security's quotes using 30 technical indicators. MetaTrader 4 Android...
Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com Make no mistake, Facebook wants to take over the world. Of course, so does Apple and Google, though Facebook may be more desperate and hungry to make it happen, what with their disappointing recent IPO and declining revenue streams. As noted in their IPO filings to the SEC, Facebook has admitted a weakness when it comes to mobile computing, which is arguably the future of computing as we know it. So, to address these issues, Facebook has been steadily...
NEW YORK, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Adfonic, the global mobile advertising marketplace, today releases its first Global AdMetrics Report, drawing data from nearly ten thousand advertising campaigns, spanning ten thousand mobile sites and apps, during the first quarter of 2012. Key among the findings of the report, which highlights Adfonic's diverse reach across all regions, platforms, device types and vertical channels, is the strength of the mobile games channel. In line...
PerfMarks II Open Source Project adds to a growing body of performance benchmarks showing Smartphone HTML5 rendering not sufficient for most mobile games Burlingame, CA (PRWEB) May 22, 2012 With HTML5 offering the potential for a single application development language, deployable across any browser and device, a growing number of companies and VCs are betting heavily on the technology. Today, spaceport.io has released the second iteration of its PerfMarks Report, meant to address some of...
