Survey reveals iOS apps more unstable than Android apps
According to a survey from Crittercism, an app analyst, Android apps are actually more stable compared to iOS apps.
Crash reports from both platforms were surveyed for fifteen days, which launched on the start of December of last year. Data was gathered from 33 versions of Google’s Android and 23 versions of Apple’s iOS.
In first place iOS 5.01 accounted for 28.64 of crashes. iOS 4.2.1 accounts...
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Motorola enforces injunction against Apple in Germany – iPhone and iPad blocked from sale online
It looks like Apple has lost another battle against another Android manufacturer. In the past, Samsung overturned an injunction that bans the sale of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia. This time the Cupertino firm is forced to pull out its products such as the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 from its online shop in Germany.
Apple makes use of a Motorola patent that is described as a “method for performing a...
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Google’s Android Bouncer guards against unruly apps – malware in Android Market down by 40%
The amount of apps in the Android Market is ever-growing. However, this massive growth in the apps also means more malware. With the threat of malware and viruses threatening devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus or the Motorola RAZR, Google developed the Android Bouncer, which has made malware in the app offering drop by 40%.
How does Bouncer work? It scans existing and new apps for trojans and...
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Skype Now Available for Nokia Belle
Symbian may not be the OS of choice for new Nokia devices these days, but there are still many devices in use worldwide. Now Skype have released an update to their app, bringing their services to Symbian handsets running Nokia Belle.
Formerly known as Symbian Belle, Nokia Belle is found on recently released devices such as the Nokia 603 and Nokia 701, and will also be rolled out to existing devices...
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Bouncer to Keep Malware from Android Market
One of the major problems plaguing the Android Market is the frequent number of malicious apps that find their way into the market, and on to users’ handsets. Now Google have taken steps to prevent this with software added to the Market that will automatically scan for undesirable apps.
The addition of the Bouncer software will be pretty much unnoticed by end users, as Google claim the security...
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T-Mobile Full Monty Ad Campaign Reveals What Britain Loves
T-Mobile will be rolling out a new ad campaign to support their recently released Full Monty tariff this coming weekend, focussing on all the weird and wacky things Britons love about being British.
Voiced by comedian Harry Hill, the campaign highlights include red telephone boxes, Bobbies on the beat, Grannies, rural post offices in villages with weird names, fancy dress, Dad’s who can’t...
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Apple Forced To Withdraw iPhones/iPads In Germany [Update]
UPDATE (03/02/12 at 17:00): Apple has obtained a temporary suspension of a sales ban imposed on iPhone and iPad products in it German online store. An appeals court lifted the ban after Apple made a new licence payment offer to Motorola. but push email iCloud service are still banned thanks to a separate ruling.
A statement from Apple said: “All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through...
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Android Employs Bouncer To Kick Out Malware
The problem with huge growth in the technology sphere is that it brings with it a malicious aspect where unscrupulous people look to take advantage and this has certainly been the case with Android.
This time last year Android became the biggest smartphone OS in the world, with device activations growing by 250 per cent year-on-year with the total number of apps downloaded passing 11 billion.
As...
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Windows Phone 8 Details Revealed
Windows Phone 7 is just about 15 months old and while it hasn’t taken a significant section of the market from Android or iOS, it is an impressive platform, and according to Joe Belifiore, head of Windows Phone for Microsoft, it’s only just the beginning.
Pocket Now has been given access to a video starring Belfiore which was intended for Microsoft’s partners at Nokia, in which he details the...
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Study Proves iOS Apps Cause More Crashes than Android
Study Proves iOS Apps Cause More Crashes than Android
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3rd Feb 2012
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Well, all the trash talk between iOS users and Android users can quiet down now – well, a little anyway – because it’s now official: Apple iOS devices crash more often than Android-driven devices do.
A mobile device can crash for any number of reasons. The overall operating system stability has little...
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Say What, Nokia?
Say What, Nokia?
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3rd Feb 2012
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Okay, we found this snippet on another blog, and we spent at least 30 minutes reading directly from that blog’s source before we could raise our jaws that had dropped and bounced off...
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Mobile News for 3 February: Patents, Micro Updates and More
Mobile News for 3 February: Patents, Micro Updates and More
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3rd Feb 2012
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Some quick headlines and updates across the mobile...
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Contract Mobile Phones Sound Planning!
Contract mobile phones never fail to attract enough users here! They were , they are and they will be the favourite of majority of mobile phone users in the UK.
There are plenty of market reports and reliable data available to support this observation. Contract phones project the simplest and the cheapest possible deal or offer for the average mobile phone user in the UK mobile phone market place....
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Gameloft announces record Q4 sales results
Developer Gameloft has posted its results for Q4 of 2012
Gameloft can crack open the champagne – it has just announced record profits from Q4 of 2011.
The mobile game developer and publisher said it achieved consolidated sales of €47 million. That’s 18 per cent more than from the same period in 2011.
Total sales for the whole year also saw a significant increase. Gameloft hit €164.4...
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How much money does Apple have?
Here’s an infographic detailing exactly how much money Apple has and what it could, theoretically speaking, do with it if it chose to
How much money does Apple have? The short answer to that question is: a lot. According to Q4 financials, Apple posted the highest quarterly earnings of any technology company ever. That’s more than HP, Google or Microsoft has ever managed.
So Apple is a pretty...
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Sales of Asus Transformer Prime stopped at one retailer
Retailer Clove has decided to stop selling the Asus Transformer Prime due to stock and tech issues with the device
Clove has it has stopped selling the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime until further notice.
Posting on its own blog, the online mobile phone retailer said: ‘Stock supply has been a real issue and good levels of stock are not expected until late February/March.’
Besides not...
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Why Apple can and should make an ‘ethical’ iPhone 5
Apple should build ethical products, starting with the iPhone 5 – and it shouldn’t require a petition. Here’s why
Apple’s production and manufacturing methods have been deemed ‘unethical’ by SumOfUs – a global online watchdog that fights for workers rights around the globe.
SumOfUs claim that workers in Foxconn’s China-based factories, where Apple’s products...
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