Jelly Bean alone in driving Android growth
Jelly Bean is now the only version of Android that is experiencing growth, which is good news for developers because it suggests that the ecosystem is getting less fragmented.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sifts through the marketing hyperbole and casts his critical eye over the latest technological innovations to find out which products make the grade and which don't.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology.
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Almost half of Internet capable home entertainment devices connected to the web, says NPD Group
Research shows that consumers are increasingly hooking up their TVs and streaming media devices to the web, and are enthusiastically downloading content from Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu.
Could Android fail?
Could we wake up one morning and find Android gone? One analyst believes that security vulnerabilities could result in litigation, which in turn could make Android too rich for Google's blood.
ARM and Sonics ink patent license agreement
Mobile chipmaker ARM has strengthened its position by licensing 138 properties from Sonics Inc, a leader of system IP for cloud-scale systems-on-chip (SoC). This will allow the company to develop chips that are more power efficient and battery friendly.
AMD aims to simplify GPGPU programming with HSA and hUMA
Combining the power of the CPU and GPU offers GPGPU solutions, but these are cumbersome for developers, since the CPU and GPU use different memory pools. AMD plans to eliminate this burden by using another acronym: hUMA.
Samsung Galaxy S4 'more susceptible to lifestyle damage' than iPhone 5: SquareTrade
Just how durable is Samsung's Galaxy S4 handset? According to extended warranty firm SquareTrade, not as durable as either the Galaxy S3 or the iPhone 5.
Samsung Galaxy S4 teardown: Qualcomm is a big winner
A teardown of Samsung's new Galaxy S4 Android smartphone shows that Qualcomm is a big winner, succeeding in getting multiple chips onto the motherboard.
Intel to unveil next-gen Haswell in approx 3,337,200,000,000,000 nanoseconds
Intel has announced the date that it will unveil its fourth-generation Core processors codenamed Haswell: Monday, June 3, a day before the Computex Taipei trade show is set to kick off.
Apple spends over $11.6m on R&D every day, but on what?
Apple is spending about $11.6 million per day on research and development, but what on? Here's what Apple might have coming down the pipeline.
The Google Glass genie can't be shoved back in the bottle
Worried that Google Glass technology will fall into the hands of miscreants, ne'er-do-wells, perverts, and criminals? I hate to break it to you, but when it comes to cameras, a goofy head-mounted device is the least you have to worry about.