Wolfram Alpha, the instant expert knowledge and computation app for tablets and smartphones, will now be heading to PCs. The company has announced a new partnership with Intel that will bring Wolfram's mobile apps, including its leading reference app, to Ultrabooks through the Intel AppUp center.
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Echoer goes global: Mobile social hands-on
A brand new social network has just been launched in app form, based entirely in the mobile world, and we’ve gone hands-on right here in the Twin Cities and New York to show you how it’ll change your life. This app environment is called Echoer, and it’s tagline “thoughts that count” is the basis for its real-time thought and “echo” engine that’ll have you exploring your world in a relatively brand new way right out of the box. This app has been in Beta in Canada for a couple of months already, now it’s ready for prime time the world over.
Google courts business with Mobile Playbook
Google is making a play for harried execs with a new guide to integrating mobile tech - preferably with lashings of Android, of course - into enterprise. Dubbed the Google Mobile Playbook, or "the busy executive's guide to winning with mobile," the interactive document covers everything from mobile consumers, branded apps and marketing, as well as how tablets can be better leveraged, as Google attempts to increase its footprint among companies.
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BlackBerry 10 release set for October
The first BlackBerry 10 device today has been tipped for October, with the first announcement of this new-age device set for as early as August. This information comes from N4BB where they’ve been tipped off that RIM is currently gearing up for their first announcement after July. This goes well with Research in Motion’s CEO Thorsten Heins’ previous statement that the first BB10 device would be appearing in the “later half of 2012.”
Galaxy S III specs appear in benchmark app
Samsung is having a veritable leak festival this week as far as their Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone goes, today’s latest being right up front and center in the benchmarking app AnTuTu. This app synthetically tests several elements in the device you run it on including graphics and CPU processing power. What you’ll find here is not only details and specifications in the device, but that it appears very much to be the new king of the pack as far as this particular test goes.
Rubin: Android ad cash unexpected
Today during their ongoing case against Oracle, Google's Larry Page was asked to say whether or not he originally expected Android to contribute greatly to the company's total ad revenues. After asked by Judge William Alsup to answer the question directly, Rubin answered that he did not. If one takes a peek at some of the ad revenue numbers from the time of Android's rise to power, one sees how easy it would have been to expect nothing other than a relatively tame future for the operating system.
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Microsoft Android patent hunting hits Pegatron
The group known as Pegatron Corp. have become the next in a line of companies creating hardware based around Android and Chrome OS to have signed a patent agreement with Microsoft. It's been some weeks since we heard the last case of this happening, but what each of these cases have amounted to is the same as what's going on here: Microsoft owns a gigantic batch of patents, many of which cover devices whose functionality lends itself to Android. In this case, both Android and Chrome devices made by Pegatron might otherwise have fallen under Microsoft's lawsuit umbrella unless Pegatron made an agreement with Microsoft like they're doing here to give them cash per unit sold.
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Android revenue revealed for first time ever
This week in Google‘s defense against Oracle the first ever Android revenue numbers have been revealed in court. The information you’re about to see, as Google warns us, is obviously not very new, but does goes us some measure of insight as to how Google worked with their mobile operating system at the time. The first sheet shown this week is an Android Ads Revenue chart which shows that Google at the time made more cash on Google ads on Apple devices than they did in the mobile realm than Android.
Original Google Phone revealed
This week at Google’s court case against Oracle, an original slide deck has been shown with photos of the original Google Phone – well before the first actual Android-based product. The slide deck containing these images shows several mentions of Java integration and is being used against Google on account of Oracle’s claim that they lifted code from them without permission. These decks also showed this week that Google’s original intent all the way back in 2006 was to work with the carriers it would be compatible with SIM cards of all types and would provide hardware with “integrated services,” all this two years before the original G1 was released to T-Mobile.
Facebook app update tips terrible smartphone
This week the folks at Facebook have updated their Android application to a version that adds two icons to the app tray and in doing so tips how a Facebook phone with HTC will end up working later this year. Though HTC has already created several Facebook Button devices - starting last year at MWC 2011, they've now reportedly got plans to make a more full-fledged Facebook device later this year. This does not stick with their plan to stay small with the models and the HTC One series of course, and also doesn't bode well given the relatively negative feedback the new Facebook app integration has received over the past 24 hours.
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Samsung rumored making Google’s next Nexus
Since Google releases a new smartphone every year that's always the first to run its latest and greatest Android update, speculation has already begun as to which manufacturer will be producing the new Nexus for release later this year. According to DigiTimes, Google has chosen to continue working with Samsung for the next-gen device.
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You want a Galaxy S III, not a Google Galaxy Nexus
This week Google revealed that they’d be selling their own devices once again, so to speak, with a Galaxy Nexus in-store before the Samsung Galaxy S III release. Of course Samsung manufactures both of these devices, and only one will be hitting your pocket for the Summer – so what’s it going to be? Google wont be carrying the Galaxy S III, but it will have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich – but the Galaxy Nexus has that software in the nude.
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