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Tag: smartphone
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A Xiaomi Phone Might’ve Shipped With A Censorship List In Europe. Now What?
European researchers found hundreds of terms the phone could block, including “Tiananmen” and “Hong Kong Independence.” There’s no playbook for what comes next.
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Reclaim Your Attention: Leave Your Smartphone at Home
A recent study found using mobile devices in nature substantially reduces nature’s regenerative effects on attention and focus.
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Mobile Conversions Falling Short? Here’s What You Can Do to Fix it
How retailers can overcome the more common issues that plague the mobile experience.
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How to Put the IoT in the Hands of Your Customers
In Southeast Asia mobile technology adoption is very high. But that reality runs in stark contrast to the population's general adoption and comfort level of new technologies. That disconnect was a topic of conversation late last month at the Asia M2M IoT Business Platform 2015 in Bangkok, where I participated
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Mobile Connections in 2014: Flexible Smartphones, Other Technologies
Mobile commerce has gone from a theoretical possibility to a practical imperative. Marketers don't have to look any further than the statistics from Black Friday to understand that. But how you reach your customer on their smartphones is an ever changing game.
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Smartphones Grow Curves With the Galaxy Round
In vendors' increasingly desperate attempts to differentiate smartphones, we've seen them get larger, smaller, thinner and now curvier, thanks to Samsung's efforts with flexible displays. But what are the advantages of a curved-screen in a smartphone.
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Is Microsoft Losing Its Office Advantage in Tablets, or Making Surface into the Best Productivity Tablet?
Is Microsoft in the process of losing one of the few competitive advantages it has in tablets? That question is being raised following news this week that Google is now offering its Quickoffice productivity apps for mobile devices, including tablets, for free. Google bought Quickoffice last year, and those
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Is a Smartwatch Really a Smart Idea?
Those rumbling sounds you heard on September 10 were complaints by Apple-watchers that the tech giant failed to announce an iWatch at its big press event. While Apple, Samsung and others need new product lines, and we at CMSWire need more cool things to write about, let’s take a
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LG Launches the G2 Learning Smartphone for the High-End
Knocking around in the fight for the number three smartphone market spot for some time, will the new G2 propel LG into the limelight? Or is the high end market no longer where its at for the majority of buyers.
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Hipstamatic Oggl Launches for Nokia Lumia 1020 and Windows Phone 8 Users
As promised, Microsoft has announced the release of Hipstamatic's social photo app for Windows Phone 8 devices, with a special Pro version for the new Nokia Lumia 1020 super-camera smartphone.
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Lumia Progress Fails To Halt Nokia's Q2 Slide, No Talk Of Buyers
Lumia 1025 If Nokia was able to say at the end of Q2 that Lumia had finally overtaken Blackberry in smartphone sales then it was the only good news in a set of figures that shows the Finnish giant is sliding again as competition across the market cuts into its crucial handset sales. Nokia’s Sales
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Can Mobile Apps Eliminate the Need for Blogging?
You may have noticed an interesting trend recently. As the popularity of visually engaging sites such as Pinterest and Instagram rise, and many mobile apps with user-generated content continue to launch, users are choosing to share on these sites rather than creating blogs.
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Facebook's Smartphone is an Android in Disguise, Press Event Next Week
Social media giant Facebook has sent out invites to a new event next week, likely the unveiling of the company's much-rumored smartphone. A broad hint suggests the device will be a modified Android running some clever Facebook-centric features.
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Tablet, Smartphone Paid Search Spend Doubles on Higher Engagement Figures
If anyone had any doubt about the importance of mobile business, new research just released by digital marketing solutions vendor, IgnitionOne, would clear that up. According to the figures released today, paid search spend on both tablets and mobile phones went up 112% and 113% respectively.
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