Your phone is only an app container
Hardware specs = irrelevant. OS features = meh. Useful apps available = everything. Microsoft needs to liberate its cash hoard and get the same critical apps available to iOS and Android users as soon as possible.
Hardware specs = irrelevant. OS features = meh. Useful apps available = everything. Microsoft needs to liberate its cash hoard and get the same critical apps available to iOS and Android users as soon as possible.
Google said it's collaborating with Samsung to create a unified wearables platform. It's also incorporating the best of Fitibit into wearOS.
A few months ago I wrote a series of posts Most EyeOS users see it as "a virtual web desktop" on what I termed the WebOS, a web-based Operating System. Most of the feedback from ZDNet readers was about why anyone would need a WebOS - and what use is it?
Software behemoth Microsoft and small, London-based Symbian are battling neck-and-neck to become the dominant force in next-generation mobile-phone software.
The new plan for RIM revolves around focusing on what it does best for mobile device management software---asset management, configuration, security policies, group administration and centralized management.
Creating one Web site to fit both browser and mobile is still a challenge but industry is picking up fast, says Web designer.
Apple iPad owners still have no Facebook application, but BlackBerry PlayBook owners will this month and it includes quite a few features. Video Chat is coming this week too.
It's time to stop emulating film in digital cameras. The next generation of smartphones are a pointer to the future of photography.
Developers should bet on Android, games, navigation and music, to reap returns, suggest industry watchers, who say business apps can also prove viable.
When Nokia decided to ditch Symbian back in 2011, it effectively signed the OS' death warrant. Is history now poised to repeat itself as Nokia squares up to Android in emerging markets?