The iPad 3 is released today and we can expect to see the usual flurry of sales as Apple disciples rush to the stores and order online. The poster device for the tablet revolution is still number one in the market. Apple has sold more than 55 million iPads to date and there’s no end in sight. Android devices are starting to claim a larger share, partly due to the Kindle Fire from Amazon, but Apple still has over 50% ...
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Reports on the death of the PC have been floating around for years. First we are told that game consoles are noisily bludgeoning PC gaming into submission and laptops are smothering PCs with a pillow as they lie innocently sleeping in bed. Now we are learning that tablets have been quietly poisoning the PC and stabbing laptops in the back for good measure. The final nail in the PC’s coffin is the rise of the all-conquering smartphone. Recent trends suggest ...
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The future is unavoidable – Windows 8 is coming and Microsoft’s desktop operating system will never be the same again. Designed to run on tablets, as well as computers with the same hardware as Windows 7, Windows 8 is jam-packed full of great new features that you simply cannot afford to miss if you want to stay ahead of the curve.
The move towards portable apps and settings has progressed apace in the world of open source computing ...
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There’s certainly no shortage of free software products in today’s computing marketplace. To be perfectly honest, many of these freebies are awesome products. On the flip side, many others are traps just waiting for another unsuspecting victim. How can you tell which is which?
When I’m evaluating how safe a free application is, one of the first things I do is try to determine the developer’s motivation for offering the product without charging me any money. It may be impossible to ...
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Android is currently the most popular mobile platform and it runs on a very wide variety of smartphones. One of the major attractions for consumers is the availability of apps. There are over 400,000 Android apps available and well over 60% of them are free. With such an astounding choice how do you decide what to download?
The truth is that the vast majority of free Android apps out there are not worth a look. That’s why we’ve drawn up this ...
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The smartphone app market is growing incredibly fast. Driven by a rapidly expanding user base, app development has become big business. The vast majority of the U.S. population own a cell phone and around 40% of them, nearly 100 million people, own a smartphone. There are now over 500,000 apps in the Apple App store and over 300,000 apps in the Android Market. Sales, in-app purchases and in-app advertising are generating billions of dollars a year. The problem for developers ...
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