July, 2012

• 3 July

  Android ICS creeps over 10% mark just as Jelly Bean appears

  

  Ice Cream Sandwich — aka Android 4.0 — is finally on more than 10 per cent of Android devices (10.7 to be precise), a mere eight months after its launch. Its share of the droidspace has shot up from 7.1 per cent in the last month, however, according to figures from Google. This sudden change …

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• 2 July

  Navigate by Wi

  

  GPS could drop off the map as British boffins work on a new location technology that navigates by signals from mobile phones and Wi-Fi. Defence firm BAE is testing Navsop, a navigation system that goes where others can’t. Navsop figures out where it is from a GPS signal, then learns about different signals including medium-wave radio frequencies, mobile phones, TVs and …

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• 2 July

  MasterCard, Deutsche Telekom team up on mobile payments

  

  Financial services giant MasterCard and mobile carrier Deutsche Telekom announced this morning that they would partner to accelerate adoption of mobile payments, which allow consumers to use their mobile phones to pay for goods and services. MasterCard sees business opportunity in Deutsche Telekom’s 93 million mobile customers in Europe. The companies plan to begin in Poland and Germany, Deutsche Telekom’s …

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• 2 July

  Firefox OS out next year on ZTE and Alcatel phones

  

  Mozilla’s brand-new Firefox OS will launch next year, with Alcatel and ZTE confirmed to be crafting the first phones running the new software. Firefox OS comes from Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko project, and is powered by HTML5. The Boot to Gecko name has been abandoned now, in favour of something much more recognisable. The first phones running the spangly new …

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• 2 July

  Windows Phone 8 to get curvy one

  

  You’ve got an important text to send, but you’re also trying to flag down a taxi, make a rude gesture at an enemy or fight off a marauding seagull. It’s a nightmare scenario, but possibly not for much longer, as spy-shots leak suggesting that Windows Phone 8 will feature a one-handed one-screen keyboard. WMPoweruser got hold of the snap above, …

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• 2 July

  Uber to branch out with hybrid car service

  

  Uber, a company that lets people request private car service in select cities, is trying to appeal to a less-affluent customers by using non-luxury, hybrid vehicles, according to a new report. According to Uber, which spoke with The New York Times in a story published yesterday, the hybrid service will kick off in San Francisco and New York on Wednesday. …

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• 2 July

  Samsung Intensity III QWERTY slider hits Verizon for $80

  

  Samsung and Verizon continue their line of QWERTY keyboard phones in the Samsung Intensity III, a horizontal slider that this time has an edge of the rugged. The durable Intensity III passes military specification (8010F) for withstanding the elements, like heat and cold, fog, humidity, dust, and solar radiation. On the features front, the Intensity III is a feature phone …

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• 2 July

  Google’s Android continues to lead in smartphones

  

  U.S. smartphone users continue to favor Samsung phones and Google’s Android operating system, according to a report released today by ComScore MobiLens. The report surveyed more than 30,000 mobile subscribers over a three-month period ending in May, finding that Samsung has 25.7 percent of the market share as a manufacturer and Google’s Android has 50.9 percent of the market share …

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• 2 July

  Samsung Galaxy S3 is a pocket doctor with S Health app

  

  How are you feeling? Your Samsung Galaxy S3 can now help answer that question with the new S Health app, available today. S Health records, tracks and shares health-related information like your weight, blood pressure, blood sugar level, and the calorific ins and outs of your diet and exercise. S Health is compatible with a variety of healthcare sensors such …

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• 2 July

  Nokia claims Nexus 7 tablet infringes on its patents

  

  Announced just last week, the Nexus 7 tablet is already attracting patent-infringement claims. Google unveiled the Asus-built 7-inch device running Android’s new mobile OS, Jelly Bean, at Google I/O in San Francisco. However, Nokia alleges that the Nexus takes advantage of Wi-Fi technology covered by Nokia patents that neither Google nor Asus approached the Finnish handset maker about licensing. “Nokia …

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