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Mobile Addiction Could Mean Highs for Mobile Developers The percentage of mobile addicts—defined as a user who launches a mobile app or opens a mobile process more than sixty times a day—has grown by 123 percent in the past year. This could be a fortunate trend for those looking for a little job security in mobile development and testing. |
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What Has Changed Since Support for Windows XP Was Retired? April 8 marked the end of Microsoft's official support for its most successful operating system, Windows XP. However, 25 percent of desktop operating system users still run it, and Microsoft just released a security patch that supports it. What's really changed with XP for developers and testers? |
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Headband Provides Head Start for Mind Control Heralded as a pivotal step toward mind control and the ability to manipulate objects with our brainwaves, the new Muse headband is at the forefront of many people’s minds—literally. What can this device be used for, and what can it mean for future development? |
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Nokia Sells Off Mobile Business for More Than $7.5 Billion The Nokia Corporation unloaded its mobile phone sector to Microsoft. The Finnish company sold off its once industry-leading telecom section to Microsoft for more than $7.5 billion. The transaction for Nokia's handset assets, now a mobile afterthought, has taken about eight months to finalize. |
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Can Amazon Thrive in the Smartphone Market? From its start as a book seller to a one-stop shop to its leadership in complex technologies and cloud computing, the one area that the world has eagerly anticipated Amazon branching into is smartphones. And now it's official—Amazon will be releasing its smartphone later this year. |
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Google’s Project Ara Phone: Will You Accept the Challenge? What if there were a modular smartphone, an endoskeleton with interchangeable parts you could customize to your needs? Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group is working on a concept—Project Ara—that will enable users to configure their own phone according to their personal preferences. |
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Killing Mobile: The Advent of the "Kill Switch" Last week, many of the major phone manufacturers and wireless companies announced they would offer an antitheft feature on smartphones. The feature, known as a kill switch, will include several components aimed at deterring theft. |