Your BT broadband account now comes with one more perk to justify its existence: a locker service that takes a leaf out of AT&T’s book in offering online storage accessible via iOS and Android apps. How much you get depends on the value of your c…
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Fujitsu announces bevy of FMV Windows 8 AIO PCs, laptops along with WiFi-only Arrows tablet
Staggered product releases? Perish the thought with Fujitsu, who just launched twelve (count ‘em) products into the Japanese market — including laptops, AIO PCs and a tablet, all sporting Windows 8. For portable computing, Fujitsu’s brought the Life…
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OpenKit aiming to fill OpenFeint-sized hole, launches in private beta tomorrow
OpenFeint seed investor Peter Relan is fed up with his former creation’s lack of existence — the open source software once powered the social integration behind many mobile games. After Japanese social gaming giant GREE bought OpenFeint in April 201…
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Google tweaks Google+ and Play Music apps for Android
Nobody can accuse Google of being lax with its recently-booming social network or Play Music Android player, as updates seem to be arriving at healthy intervals. Another one just dropped for each that fixes a Galaxy SIII freezing issue in Music, whil…
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Whoa: Tablet shipments now more than half that of the PC
IDC has the market share breakdown of tablet sales by vendor, but the big story isn’t who is making more tablets. More important is the tablet impact on the PC market.
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Evernote intros Penultimate 4 for iPad, explores synced and searchable handwriting
Evernote acquired the Penultimate app for iPad last year with the conspicuous goal of making handwritten notes as easy to synchronize as to-do lists and snippets from the web. After several months of silence, the newly reworked Penultimate 4 is the r…
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Skulls of the Shogun offers game syncing across Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox (video)
Cross-platform game compatibility and syncing aren’t anything new, but there have been few if any games that truly make us feel at home when we switch devices. Developer 17-Bit’s just-launched Skulls of the Shogun bucks that trend in style as the fir…
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IDC: iPad loses a little marketshare, still dominates global tablet sales in Q4 2012
While Samsung continues to claim the top spot in smartphone sales, Apple is doing the same with tablets. According to IDC, the iPad (in all its shapes) is still the most popular tablet — by a long way. Apple claimed a 43.6 percent market share for t…
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IDC: Worldwide Tablet Shipments Hit A Record Total Of 52.5M Units In Q4 , Including 22.9M iPads
Apple’s iPad led the charge as total worldwide tablet shipments hit a record of 52.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to IDC’s preliminary data from its Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, but its market share continued to slide due to competition from Samsung. Meanwhile, PC shipments declined during the quarter for the first time in more than five years. The tablet market grew 75.3% year-over-year, and increased 74.3% from the previous quarter’s total of 30.1 million units, helped along by holiday purchases, lower average selling prices and a wider range of products.
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With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Phones Collected, Device Recycler ecoATM Adds Tablets
According to Strategy Analytics, about 1.6 billion mobile phones were shipped in 2012, with 700 million of those being smartphones. That doesn’t even take tablets into account. Compass Intelligence estimates that 18 million new tablets were sold during the fourth quarter of 2012. Naturally, as waves upon waves of new smartphones and tablets hit stores, people need a way of disposing of their old, used devices.
