96% of smartphone apps were downloaded for free in 2011 according to IHS Screen Digest which launched a study into people’s App usage and behaviour recently. The study revealed that App users are increasingly
96% of smartphone apps were downloaded for free in 2011 according to IHS Screen Digest which launched a study into people’s App usage and behaviour recently. The study revealed that App users are increasingly
An £80 million Home Office programme to equip UK police forces with Blackberry smartphones has been criticised by the national audit office. In a recent report the NAO said that only one in five UK police
Remember the times when you had to have two phones? Your personal handset and your work handset? Those days are more than over now, but with the new Blackberry Bold we go one step further.
The new Blackberry Bold helps you balance your work and your life. It integrates a new application called Blackberry Balance that separates your personal and corporate content and also allows you to switch your phone into whats called “Weekend mode”. Perfect for those who live to work but still reserve a small part of their lives for family, friends and leisure moments.
We have all used it probably hundreds of times over the last few years since it’s become a main stay feature of the modern mobile phone. However what do we really know about the mysterious workings of Bluetooth!
A few years ago you will not of heard of the Android Operating system! However, over the last 2 years the OS from Google has taken on a life of its own and spread like wildfire through many top mobile manufacturers high-end smartphone offerrings.
If you are still in the dark about Android or just simply want to learn more about it, we’ve put together this compendium of knowledge for you “The History Of Android” or something like that anyway!
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Just like the Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry’s, Android is a open mobile phone platform which runs on the Linux kernel that has been developed by Google, Google’s Android as a software stack for mobile phones. A software stack is made up of the operating system (the platform which everything runs), the middleware (The programming that allows applications to talk to a network and to one another), and the applications (the programs that the phones will run). In short, the Android software stack is all the software that will make an Android phone an Android phone
The Blackberry Smartphone has become one of the most popular must have devices in the 21st century. How did the Blackberry story start?
It all started in 1984 with two engineering students, Douglas Fregin and Mike Lazaridis, who founded a company called Research in Motion or RIM in Waterloo, Ontario in Canada. The company was originally set up as a computer science and electronics consulting business. Within a period of 4 years, the company focused on the setting up of wireless POS (point-of-sale) terminals using radio waves and the transmission of wireless data.
By 1988, the company’s wireless venture takes off and the company went on to become one of the first wireless data technology developers in North America.