Find: iPad's domination of tablet traffic grows, but does Amazon care?

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iPad's domination of tablet traffic grows, but does Amazon care?

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During his keynote speech for the release of the iPhone 5, Apple CEO Tim Cook poked fun of competitors in the tablet space with a few pie charts. While the iPad's market share in the tablet space has reportedly slipped to about 65 percent, Cook noted that iPads still make up 91 percent of web traffic from tablets. "I don't know what these other tables are doing. They must be in warehouses or on store shelves, or maybe in someone's drawer."

Onswipe, a New York startup which helps publishers optimize their sites for touch enabled devices, has just released some new data, and it turns out Apple's lead could be even bigger than Cook boasted. The measurements are taken from 8.5 million unique visitors across the more than one hundred...

Find: Texas Instruments admits defeat, moves focus away from smartphone processors

Really? What's left then? 

Texas Instruments admits defeat, moves focus away from smartphone processors
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Chipmaker Texas Instruments (TI) has announced a major shift in its business strategy, moving away from consumer electronics devices such as smartphones and tablets and towards embedded applications such as computer systems in cars. Speaking at an investor meeting on Tuesday, VP for embedded processing Greg Delagi described the consumer electronics market as "less attractive as we go forward," according to a report from Reuters.

The announcement comes as TI's OMAP platform continues to lose ground to rivals such as Qualcomm and Nvidia. While OMAP processors are still used in some high-profile devices such as Amazon's Kindle Fire HD, shown above, recent flagship smartphones from companies such as HTC, Motorola, and Nokia have favored...

Competition: Mozilla and National Science Foundation seek developers to build “apps from the future”

Can't see the deadline here. 

Mozilla and National Science Foundation seek developers to build “apps from the future”

Today, Mozilla and the National Science Foundation announced eight winning ideas that offer a glimpse of what the internet of the future might look like. Next up: invite developers everywhere to make these and other big ideas a reality.

Eight teams were awarded prizes today for their submissions to the Brainstorming Round of “Mozilla Ignite,” an open innovation challenge that invites developers and the general public to imagine and build applications that make use of ultra-fast, deeply programmable networks up to 250 times faster than today’s internet.

The proposed apps are aimed specifically at areas that create public benefit. Categories range from education, healthcare, public safety and clean energy to transportation, workforce development and advanced manufacturing.

Development Round now open

Now that the initial “Brainstorming Round” is complete, the challenge moves into the “Development Round.” Developers can enter the challenge now to help build one of the winning ideas announced today, or submit their own completely new proposal.

$485,000 is available in funding to support winning proposals, and all are welcome to submit at mozillaignite.org. Winners will receive funding, mentorship from world-leading judges, and access to the National Science Foundation’s Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI), one of the most advanced test-bed networks in the world.

Brainstorming apps from the future

Here are the eight winning ideas announced today from the Mozilla Ignite Challenge’s “Brainstorming Round:”

  • Real-Time Emergency Response Observation and Supervision

    Jeremy Cooperstock, Shared Reality Lab, McGill University

    This app saves lives. The goal: arm firefighters, rescue workers and first-responders with powerful new real-time data and communications. Combining live, high-quality video from multiple feeds with real-time sensor data — like heat and smoke levels — could dramatically improve decision-making and coordination.


  • Real-time ...

Spotted: MIT study reveals fonts used by car manufacturers can influence distracted driving

The real question: why was one font easier to read, and why only for men?

Study reveals fonts used by car manufacturers can influence distracted driving

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Researchers at MIT's Age Lab have discovered that the fonts car manufacturers choose for use with in-dash entertainment systems can impact the amount of time drivers spend distracted behind the wheel. Unlike the physical controls found in older cars (dials, knobs, etc.), a rise in digital user interfaces has had the unfortunate side effect of demanding more attention from drivers. The study involved a simulation in which participants were asked to perform routine tasks on a display not unlike those you'll find in many modern vehicles. Researchers tracked eye movements during each session and tested two typefaces on the screen: the first was Eurostyle, with Frutiger serving as the second and more "humanist" font.

Find: Boeing to outfit planes for in-flight cellphone use by 2013

Boeing to outfit planes for in-flight cellphone use by 2013

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Boeing has announced plans to outfit some of its aircraft with equipment that would allow for in-flight cellphone use. In a press release issued Wednesday, the company said it has begun installing connectivity systems on all 747 and 777 planes, and that they should be completely cellphone-friendly by 2013. The manufacturer's 787 Dreamliner planes already include kits that allow for cellphone use, though Boeing plans to upgrade them with additional capabilities by the end of the year.

In addition to allowing for incoming and outgoing calls, these systems will provide Wi-Fi connectivity and live TV broadcasts, though it remains to be seen whether they actually take off. The equipment would still need to be approved by the FAA, which has...

Find: Acclaimed designer Yves Behar says Apple is behind on software

He's right. 

Acclaimed designer Yves Behar says Apple is behind on software

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Designer Yves Behar, who has worked on products such as the most recent OLPC laptop, the Jawbone line, and Ouya game console, has criticized Apple for its software design. Talking at the 100% Design exhibition in London, Behar told Dezeen that Apple was "a little bit behind" when it came to software. The designer believes that hardware and software should be designed alongside eachother, and pointed to a lack of congruence between Apple's philosophies for both sectors.

Regarding Apple's tendency towards skeomorphic design (mimicking real-life materials and products) in its software, Behar says "obviously they didn't go there with the hardware, so why did they go there with the software?" Verge reader Shtekeris recently illustrated...

Find: Build apps for elections with the Google Civic Information API

Google Code Blog Build apps for elections with the Google Civic Information API

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By Chetan Sabnis, Google Politics & Elections Team

Cross-posted from the Google Politics & Elections Blog

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. To make it easier for you to build apps with voting information on the web, we are releasing our new Google Civic Information API. The API enables you to look up comprehensive voting information for an individual U.S. address, including polling place, early vote sites, contests, and local election official contact information. By releasing this API, we hope to unleash the creativity of the Internet and help you build innovative products that push civic information to your communities in interesting ways.

As you know, this type of information can change frequently as we get closer to Election Day, and we will make every effort to ensure we're returning timely and accurate data. We have also included contact information for local election officials in the API so voters can find the most accurate information.

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While this API only includes voting information for elections in the U.S., we plan to expand to other countries and include other types of civic information. Please join the Google Civic Information API Forum for updates on the data available and check out the Google Politics & Elections page to find more information about the work we are doing around the election and our international elections programs.



You can get started here through the Google APIs Explorer. The API is available now, but please note that full information isn't yet available for the November 6th General Election. We expect to be able to provide full live data around the middle of October, as it becomes available. For now, we recommend building your applications using the test data we provide. We'll be using the API to power our own election tools over the coming weeks, including an embeddable app anyone can use on their site, and we're looking forward to seeing the applications you come up with!

The Civic Information API replaces our previous Google Election Center API, which will be turned down after January 1, 2013.

For questions, comments, and to showcase your apps using the API, we encourage you to use the Google Civic Information API Forum.


Chetan Sabnis is a software engineer on the Google Politics & Elections team. In his spare time, Chetan enjoys solving logic puzzles and crosswords.

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Opp: Android Camp deadline early 2013

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Google Student Blog My Summer @ Google: Building more than just apps at Android Camp

Introduction: Over the summer we host a variety of programs and internships for technical and non-technical students. We’re relaunching the My Summer @ Google series to give you an inside look at each of these programs, hearing from the students themselves who participated. Today John Yang-Sammataro, a current computer science student at Stanford University, recaps Google’s Android Camp. Android Camp is a week long interactive program where students work in teams to build Android applications.

When I heard that I had the unique opportunity to have hands on training with the team that builds Android, I jumped at the chance. Nearly everyday for the past two years, I have walked past Larry Page and Sergey Brin's original Google server, which sits in the Huang Engineering Building at Stanford. However, this summer was the first time I visited the Google headquarters that the two famous internet entrepreneurs founded after their time at Stanford. I began the camp aiming to learn as much as I could about Google’s latest cutting edge mobile technology, but came away with a richer experience than I ever expected.

Find: Apple's custom ARM approach for A6 pays off in JavaScript performance

Ars Technica Apple's custom ARM approach for A6 pays off in JavaScript performance

Apple's iPhone 5 is the fastest smartphone ever tested using the WebKit team's SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, apparently due to the custom core design of the A6 processor. The benchmark performs over twice as fast on the A6 as it does on the A5 processor in the iPhone 4S, and even bests smartphones running Intel's x86-based Atom processors, according to AnandTech.

AnandTech published an extensive SunSpider benchmark comparison on Wednesday morning, including results from an iPhone 5 test unit and two dozen other smartphones. The iPhone 5 turned in an impressive 914.7ms time, easily besting the 2250.0ms of the iPhone 4S—almost 2.5 times as fast. It also beat the current top Android device, Samsung's Galaxy SIII, which ran the benchmark in 1442.9ms. (The iPhone 5 is 1.6 times faster.)

It's important to note that SunSpider isn't the best measure of raw performance across platforms. JavaScript engines vary from browser to browser on different platforms, and Apple almost certainly employs optimizations in iOS that would be difficult to replicate in Android or WP7 on every available handset. However, it's notable that the iPhone 5's A6 processor is executing JavaScript significantly faster than the only Atom-based smartphone currently available, the Lava XOLO X900, which turned in a 1279.4ms score.

Opp: How student coders helped CERN build iPhone app, speed up simulations

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Ars Technica How student coders helped CERN build iPhone app, speed up simulations

Google Summer of Code participant Eamon Ford built an iPhone app for CERN.
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Google Summer of Code is one of the best deals out there both for students looking to hone their coding skills and for organizations that need cheap, talented labor. A student who completes an open source coding project gets a cool $5,000, and the projects are important enough that even CERN, the European nuclear research organization that runs the Large Hadron Collider, has participated the last two years. The organization had seven students on board this past summer.

We talked to two of them, one who wrote an iPhone app for CERN while home from school, and another who spent the summer at the nuclear research facility while improving code used to simulate the passage of particles through matter.

Laying the foundation

Eamon Ford, a junior at the University of Chicago, estimates he spent 630 hours working nearly every day over the summer on an iPhone and iPad app that gathers news articles, photos, videos, and other media from CERN and then makes them accessible to the public in an easily navigable user interface. Ford wrote in Objective-C in the Apple's Xcode integrated development environment, and said most of what he did was user interface work, modeled after newsreaders such as the Google Currents app.

Find: Firefox OS approaches - ZTE aiming for Q1 2013 launch

ZTE aiming for Q1 2013 launch for Firefox OS smartphone

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ZTE is coordinating with Mozilla to release a handset running Firefox OS in the first quarter of next year. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters both report that ZTE is looking to diversify its product portfolio to shift reliance away from Android and Windows Phone. According to ZTE spokesperson David Dai Shu, the company is working with "a regional telecom carrier outside of China." It’s unclear exactly who ZTE is referring to, but Mozilla has previously announced partnerships with carriers such as Sprint, Telefónica and Deutsche Telekom.

The cost of licensing Windows Phone was revealed back in January, with ZTE paying Microsoft between $20 and $30 for each handset it produced running the operating system. ZTE may also be paying a...

Find: Mobile Device Privacy Act, meant to stop Carrier IQ-style data collection, introduced in Congress

Mobile Device Privacy Act, meant to stop Carrier IQ-style data collection, introduced in Congress

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After asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Carrier IQ's controversial tracking practices, US Representative Edward Markey has sponsored legislation to prevent it or other companies from collecting data without informing customers. The Mobile Device Privacy Act, drafted in January and introduced to the House of Representatives on Wednesday, requires companies that sell mobile devices or phone and data subscriptions to inform consumers if any "monitoring software" is included. If so, it must also detail the type of information that could be collected, who it's being sent to, and how it will be used. What's more, customers must consent to the tracking and be free to opt out even if they initially agree to have information...

Find: Intel moves into mobile - Motorola and Intel announce new RAZR

Motorola and Intel announce new RAZR i

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Today in London, Motorola is announcing the first fruits of its multi-year, multi-device partnership with Intel — a revamped Droid RAZR M called the RAZR i. While the two phones look almost identical externally, the most important characteristic is an Intel Medfield processor that the chipmaker says is its first to reach speeds of 2GHz. The phone is one of the first Android devices to feature Intel's new chipset, and only the second we'll actually be able to buy, following the Orange San Diego.

Motorola says that the phone will be available in October in the UK, France, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. It will be partnering with Orange, T-Mobile, Phones4U, Virgin Media, and Tesco in the UK, and with E+, o2, Sparhandy, and Phone...

Find: Startup BitMonster links first game launch to new iPod

Startup BitMonster links first game launch to new iPod

Lili from BitMonsterTech Wire Gamer: The Cary-based company founded by veterans from Epic Games are rolling out "Lili" for play on Apple's updated iPod.

Find: Mark Zuckerberg promises a native Android app, says betting on HTML5 for mobile was a 'mistake'

Html5 not ready for prime mobile time yet!

Mark Zuckerberg promises a native Android app, says betting on HTML5 for mobile was a 'mistake'

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Speaking with Michael Arrington at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that "we've had a bunch of missteps on [mobile]," specifically referring to its mobile app strategy. "The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5 instead of native... We burnt two years." He said that the company would also drop HTML5 in its Android app as well, and that a native version would be coming "soon."

"Native is going to be the approach."

"We're betting completely on it," he said, referring to native apps. "Native is going to be the approach that we go with for iOS and Android." Much of the same infrastructure that Facebook built for iOS will be re-applied to Android, but as for an ETA for the...

Find: Apple debuts long-awaited iPhone 5 with 4-inch display, LTE

Nice, but more of the same?

Apple debuts long-awaited iPhone 5 with 4-inch display, LTE



Apple officially unveiled the newest iPhone at an event today in San Francisco. The iPhone 5, which has a taller and narrower screen than previous models, will ship with the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 6.

The phone measures 7.6 millimeters thick and weighs 112 grams, which is 18 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter than the iPhone 4S. The iPhone 5 retains the retina display pixel density of the iPhone 4S at 326ppi, but it now has a 4-inch 16:9 display at a 1136x640 resolution, with 44 percent more color saturation than the 4S. Because of the added screen real estate, the phone can now show five rows of icons on its home screen.



The new iPhone applies black bars to the sides of the screen for apps that aren't updated for the new resolution.

Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, noted that many of Apple's own apps, including iWork, GarageBand, and iMovie have been updated for the new screen. For apps that have not been updated to the new display resolution, Apple says it will either center the apps or "subtly place black borders on each side."

Event: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society cookout

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Human Factors is psychology with an engineering focus. Their interests are very related to our lab's.

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From: Regina Tyree <rmtyree@ncsu.edu>

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society is hosting a cookout to introduce our field to students interested in Design in Computer Science. 

Human Factors is applicable to the fields of Computer Science and Design in many ways. We research how humans interact with interfaces and apply the findings to improve upon various factors influencing these interactions. This can include anything from reducing errors or mistakes in usage to streamlining work flow. The ultimate goal is to use design principles and behavioral theories founded through research to optimize human well-being, system usability, and overall system performance. 

Come to our cookout to learn more about HFES!  Here are the details:

Day: Thursday, September 13
Time: 5pm to 8ish (feel free to stop by anytime)
Location: Owen/Tucker Beach on NCSU campus 
Activities: Beach volleyball, corn hole, music

A yearly membership with HFES is only $5.  Become a member at the cookout and get free food!  As a member of HFES, you will receive emails for job postings, be invited to social events and guest lectures, plus have a nationally recognized society to put on your resume or CV!

We hope you will join us at the cookout!

Find: Cosmonaut stylus creator Dan Provost on how two guys make a living building hardware

Cosmonaut stylus creator Dan Provost on how two guys make a living building hardware

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Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt are Studio Neat, the two-man outfit behind the Cosmonaut stylus and the Glif iPhone tripod of Kickstarter fame. They also launched a stop-motion film app for iPhone called Frameographer, but Studio Neat's most recent endeavor is "It Will Be Exhilarating," a new book about indie capitalism and the trials and tribulations of building hardware as a small company. Provost took a few minutes to talk to The Verge about his new book, and about why people today more than ever want to be in touch with those creating their products.

You can find him on Twitter at @danprovost.

Find: Nokia Announces Lumia 920 & 820 Running Windows Phone 8

Nokia Announces Lumia 920 & 820 Running Windows Phone 8

Nokia just announced its next-generation Windows Phone 8 devices: the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820. Both are pentaband devices (available in both LTE and HSPA+ versions later this year, Q4 to be exact), powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 SoC running at 1.5GHz. The 920 features an 8.7MP rear facing camera with optical image stabilization and F/2.0 lens. Around front is 1.2MP F/2.4. The 820 has no OIS for the 8MP rear facing camera and a VGA front facing camera.

Both phones support wireless charging via the Qi standard. The 920 has an integrated 2000mAh battery, while the 820 has a smaller, removable, 1650mAh battery.

The 920 features a 4.5-inch WXGA IPS LCD, while the 820 uses a 4.3-inch OLED WVGA panel. 

Both support Nokia's super sensitive touch that allows even someone wearing gloves to use the capacitive touchscreen. Synaptics is responsible for the touch controller in both the 920 and 820.

Only the 820 has a microSD card slot, while the 920 features 32GB of on-board NAND. 

The 920 measures 130mm x 70.8mm x 10.7mm and weighs 185g. The 820 is smaller at 123.8mm x 68.5mm x 9.9mm and 160g. Full network support for both phones is as follows:

GSM850/900/1800/1900 WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100
LTE 800/900/1800/2100/2600
Speed: LTE Cat3 100Mbps/50Mbps HSDPA+ Dual Carrier cat24 (42 Mbps) HSUPA cat 6: 5.8 Mbps
 
NFC, 802.11a/b/g/n, WiFi Hotspot, Bluetooth 3.1 are all supported.

Press: Summer course project's app release party on Monday - WRAL

Raleigh greenway iPhone app set for release

2012 Downtown Raleigh SkylineBeginning Monday, residents can navigate the city of Raleigh's nature trails with an iPhone app.

Find: Bees inspire collaborative technology by Raleigh startup

Dawson has visited our class a few times. Good luck Dawson! 

Bees inspire collaborative technology by Raleigh startup

Decode SolutionsIn this the latest of a series of stories profiling presenting companies at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development's annual Tech Venture conference, Decode Solutions founder Dawson Roark talks about enterprise applications for collaboration that help build a "nest" of team knowledge.

Find: Joulebug turns going green into cost-saving game

Joulebug turns going green into cost-saving game

JoulebugIn this the latest of a series of stories profiling presenting companies at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development's annual Tech Venture conference, Joulebug founder Grant Williard talks about the company's mobile app that aims to build your "eco-credibility" among friends.

Find: Amazon's Appstore for Android tops 50,000 apps

Amazon's Appstore for Android tops 50,000 apps ahead of today's event

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Amazon's Appstore has passed the all-important 50,000 app mark after less than 18 months. The retail giant launched the Appstore back in March last year as a precursor to the November release of its Kindle Fire tablet, luring in Android users with exclusive and free app promotions. It surpassed 30,000 apps six months ago and, according to the official store figures, now offers 50,505 Android apps.

Although we recently confirmed an Amazon smartphone is in the works, the company is widely expected to launch a pair of Kindle tablets today — so how many of those 50,505 apps are going to be compatible with the new tablets? The Appstore lists 31,429 as being Kindle Fire compatible — a very healthy figure, but many of those apps may not be...

Find: Mobile gamers overtake 'core' gamers in the US, says NPD

Mobile gamers overtake 'core' gamers in the US, says NPD

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It's no secret that mobile gaming is growing, but according to a new report from the NPD group it now represents the largest segement of gamers in the US. Based on 8,488 surveys, NPD estimates that mobile gamers represent 22 percent of the market, a nine percent jump from 2011. Last year "core" gamers held the number one spot with an estimated 23 percent of the market. The report breaks down people who play games into six types — mobile, digital, core, light PC, avid PC, and family/ kid gamers — and aside from the mobile segment, only one other group saw an increase compared to 2011, with digital gamers seeing a slight four percent jump year-over-year. "We see a tremendous impact from mobile gaming, particularly on smartphones and...

Find: Lady Gaga to release next album, 'Artpop,' as iPad and iPhone app

Lady Gaga to release next album, 'Artpop,' as iPad and iPhone app

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Singer Lady Gaga will release her next album, Artpop, as an app for Apple's iPad and iPhone, as well as in traditional physical and digital formats. Writing in a post on her Little Monsters social networking site yesterday, Gaga announced that the interactive album, set to be released in Spring 2013, will include "chats, films for every song, extra music, content, gaga inspired games, fashion updates, magazines, and more."

As well as iOS, the Artpop app will reportedly be "mobile and computer compatible," though it is not clear whether it will be available for Android or other smartphone platforms — in her personal message, Gaga advised fans to "start asking for IPADS FOR XMAS!" She follows in the footsteps of fellow musician Sting,...

Find: Grooveshark's new HTML 5 mobile site

Grooveshark's new HTML 5 mobile site seeks to eliminate the need for a dedicated app

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Last week, music streaming site Grooveshark found itself in a new bit of controversy — its Android app was reinstated to the Google Play Store for just a few days before being unceremoniously yanked from the store yet again. While Grooveshark said that it was still hoping to have its app back in the Play Store soon, the company just announced a major HTML 5 redesign to its mobile site that eliminates the need for a dedicated app — so users of Android, iOS, or any other modern mobile OS can take advantage of the site. Unlike the beta version that Grooveshark released way back in January, the new release allows users to sign in to their existing accounts and access their saved playlists and favorited tracks.

Unsurprisingly, the service...

Find: Indystate in china by idc - With next iPhone looming, Apple loses ground in China

With next iPhone looming, Apple loses ground in China smartphone market

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With the next iPhone rumored to be just weeks away, consumers in China have shown hesitance in buying from Apple's current smartphone lineup and the company's marketshare in the region has suffered as a result. IDC reports that iOS marketshare in China nearly halved in the second quarter, giving a major boost to competitors like Lenovo — which rocketed into second place with an 11 percent share — and Apple's courtroom rival Samsung, which maintains the top slot with 19 percent. The iPhone's marketshare fell to 10 percent, though IDC attributed the drop to anticipation surrounding Apple's next iteration of the popular handset.

Q2 marked the first time that three Chinese vendors ranked among the top five smartphone sellers, according...

Find: When less is more - OwnFone will only let you call the people most important to you

OwnFone will only let you call the people most important to you

OwnPhone

While most smartphones attempt to attract consumers by adding more and more features, OwnFone's biggest appeal is its distinct lack of options — it can make phone calls and that's about it. Not only that, but the credit card-sized device is also designed to only call the most important people in your life. Before purchasing you'll need to pick up to 12 different contacts, and the phone will then ship with buttons dedicated to each number.

There's no standard keypad or even a display, though you can customize it visually by picking from a range of colors and styles. The company sees the device being used as a low-cost alternative to current mobile phones, or even as an emergency backup for those times your iPhone's battery goes dead....

Find: Lenovo expanding its smartphone business

Lenovo expanding its smartphone business

Lenovo is planning to expand its smartphone business beyond its home market in China but isn't ready to enter the U.S. market yet.

Bloomberg News reported today that the No. 2 PC maker, which has an executive headquarters in Morrisville that employs about 2,000, plans to expand smartphone sales to India, the Philippines and Indonesia. The company quoted Milko Van Duijl, president of the Asia-Pacific and Latin American regions, as saying that the company already has lined up distribution partners in those countries.

Lenovo launched smartphone sales in China two-and-a-half years ago. Van Duijl told Bloomberg that focusing on emerging markets first will enable the company to expand its smartphone business yet avoid the hurdles of high marketing costs and intellectual property issues that it would face in the U.S. and western Europe.

You can read the Bloomberg story here

Press: Summer mobile course project RGreenway nears final release

Our summer mobiles course citycamp project has taken on a life of its own! Great work everyone! 

New mobile app will showcase Raleigh greenways

Initially available for iPhones, the app will offer basic functions such as maps and access points, along with more advanced features that allow users to report maintenance issues.

Find: Windows Phone 8 will reportedly launch October 29th


Windows Phone 8 will reportedly launch October 29th

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It's shaping up to be a hell of an October for Microsoft. We've known for a while that Windows 8 will be available (alongside a large and growing set of hardware) on October 26th, but according to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley Windows Phone 8 is set to be launched only three days later. On the 29th, Microsoft will reportedly have an event on the West coast to launch the new operating system, and then handsets running the new OS (one of which we've already seen) will be available a week or so later. The timing certainly makes sense: the four days following that announcement are Microsoft's Build conference, where developers will have a chance to talk about all things Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. This fall we'll finally get a chance to answer...

Find: Indystate by idc - China's smartphone shipments to surpass the US

China's smartphone shipments to surpass the US this year, says IDC

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According to market research firm IDC, this year smartphone shipments in China will eclipse those in the United States. China is expected to account for 26.5 percent of global smartphone shipments this year, with the US coming in second with an estimated 17.8 percent of the market. This would indicate a role reversal, as the US and China accounted for 21.3 percent and 18.3 percent of the market in 2011, respectively. The research firm believes that the continued growth in China will be buoyed by the release of lower-priced handsets in the country. "The PRC smartphone market will continue to be lifted by the sub-US$200 Android segment," IDC analyst Wong Teck-Zhung said.

Of course, it's important to note that IDC has a relatively broad...