I have always thought that the 1990s tectonic battle between Microsoft’s internet explorer and NCC’s Netscape Navigator was the crash of the giants. In the first half of 2013, we witnessed HTC and Samsung launch their most ingenious smartphones ever – the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4. Each handset is its own best….
Google announced its plans to retire the latitude location sharing service come August 9. The news came at such a time when the tech giant was also announcing a better, improved Google Maps App for users across the mobile community. After the demise of Latitude, Google will shift their location sharing focus on their social…
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Smartphones have become quite ubiquitous nowadays, with many people owning one or more? However, this was not the case several years ago; thus, the explosion of the smartphone market can be attributed to the release of Android operating system from Google. It is based on Linux, the open source operating system responsible for powering many…
With the gap between the PC and smartphones closing, computing has taken some interesting turns. However, the focus of most technology commentators of late has been on mobile computing, all at the expense of the PC. However, it is important to note that there are some software developers that have been exploring ways of bridging…
Android has become the most widely used mobile operating system, gobbling up as much as 70% of the market share. This has been mainly attributed to the fact that Android is open source software, aiming it open for altering. This has thus enabled many smartphone manufacturers to run customized versions of Android on their handsets….