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Google HQ adds Android Ice Cream Sandwich statue [Updated with Video]

, Oct 13th 2011 Discuss [3]

The collection of tasty statues on the front lawn of Google's headquarters now has a new addition to celebrate the upcoming Android Ice Cream Sandwich update. Originally scheduled for this week, the launch event has now been pushed back to October 19. The joint event with Samsung will be held in Hong Kong and will include the unveiling of Google's next-gen hero device, the Nexus Prime. Read The Full Story

Siri assistant on iPhone 4S gets real world demo

, Oct 11th 2011 Discuss [13]

Apple is promising a revolutionary voice-control experience with the native Siri personal assistant feature for iOS 5 on the iPhone 4S. We've seen Siri demoed at the Let's Talk iPhone event last week along with a slick commercial preview of the feature in action, but now we've got a new video from Stuff.TV that shows it functioning impressively well in the real world. Read The Full Story

HP may decide fate of webOS this week

, Oct 10th 2011 Discuss [9]

Ever since HP announced back in August that it was discontinuing WebOS hardware, the platform has been left hanging with an uncertain future. However, new rumors have surfaced that the company could decide the fate of WebOS sometime this week. According to people familiar with the situation, HP is set to hold an all-hands meeting tomorrow to finally iron things out. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry QNX platform name leaked as BBX

, Oct 7th 2011 Discuss [7]

RIM's QNX-based next-gen platform for its BlackBerry smartphones and tablets may be called BlackBerry X or BBX. The name was leaked by a slide shown during a presentation at the QNX Auto Summit Japan 2011 conference, which was focused on in-car entertainment systems developed on the QNX framework. Read The Full Story

Ice Cream Sandwich launch confirmed by Android Developers YouTube channel

, Oct 6th 2011 Discuss [11]

Google's next-gen Android platform dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich looks certain to make an appearance at next week's CTIA event. Samsung has already begun teasing the details via videos for its CTIA Samsung Unpacked event and now the official Android Developers YouTube channel is confirming the same. Read The Full Story

iOS 5 Assistant voice control gets mockup video

, Sep 30th 2011 Discuss [11]

Apple's upcoming release of iOS 5 is expected to include an advanced voice recognition technology that will enable a major new feature rumored to be called Assistant. This feature will allow users to perform a variety of tasks on their iPhones, such as sending text messages, checking email, and scheduling appointments, all by voice commands. MacRumors has created a mockup video showing how the iOS 5 Assistant might work based on the latest speculations. Read The Full Story

Ice Cream Sandwich gets two-minute video tour

, Sep 28th 2011 Discuss [6]

The much anticipated Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update is expected to be a major revamp that will unite and streamline the platform for both smartphones and tablets. And now the update has been leaked in a two-minute video tour that gives us a nice little preview. The clip allegedly comes from a lucky eBay shopper who picked up a Samsung Nexus S only to find that it was running a build of the next-gen Android platform. Read The Full Story

‘Crybaby’ Google accuses Microsoft of extortion

, Sep 28th 2011 Discuss [18]

Microsoft and Samsung announced today a new cross-licensing deal for greater collaboration on Windows Phone 7 devices, but the deal will also require Samsung to pay royalties to Microsoft for every Android device it sells. Following the announcement, Google chimed in with a statement sent to TechCrunch, accusing Microsoft's patent-wielding tactics against Android and its partners extortion. Read The Full Story

Windows 8 reactions on Twitter visualized

, Sep 27th 2011 Discuss [15]

Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is getting very positive reactions according to a new infographic put together by social media tracking company MashWork. The company has been tracking tweets about the revamped Windows platform since its first limited preview back in June with a good portion of the reactions collected from the recent Microsoft Build developer conference. Continue after the cut for the full infographic. Read The Full Story

Mac OS X vulnerable to new PDF trojan malware

, Sep 23rd 2011 Discuss [6]

Although Macs have the squeaky clean image of being malware-free, things may start to change as the platform gets increasingly more popular. Researchers at F-Secure and Sophos have discovered a new trojan horse malware that targets Mac OS X and is disguised as a PDF file. The malware was first seen in July but has now been identified as two utilities that work together to install a backdoor. Read The Full Story

Mobile Mix study shows Android almost double iOS market share

, Sep 23rd 2011 Discuss [5]

Millennial Media released a new Mobile Mix report today for the month of August and unsurprisingly Android and iOS are both still in the lead and growing, while the rest of the competitors continue to fall further behind. Android has quite the lead with a 54 percent market share that's almost double that of iOS, which has 28 percent. Read The Full Story

Windows 8 Metro apps restricted to Microsoft’s own store

, Sep 19th 2011 Discuss [6]

From the Build developer conference last week, we learned that Microsoft intends to mimic Apple, charging a 30 percent cut on Windows 8 apps designed for its Metro UI. However, some additional details have come out today that reveal Microsoft could be even more restrictive by not allowing Metro apps to be sold outside of its own app market, which will be called the "Windows Store." Read The Full Story
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