(Credit: Apple, Research In Motion) In 2006, Spyglass Consulting Group released a report, Trends in Mobile Communications, finding that 59 percent of physicians interviewed were using smartphones. Today, according to the firm’s latest report, that figure has jumped to 94 percent. “Physician smartphone adoption is occurring more rapidly than with members of the general public,” [...]
Shoppers perusing Wal-Mart for a cell phone will soon have double the options–that is, a choice of purchasing a prepaid phone on two carriers instead of just one. Wal-Mart’s Straight Talk wireless service, which has previously run only on Verizon’s networks, is expanding to AT&T. StraightTalk is a brand made by TracFone, and is sold [...]
Apple on Tuesday introduced a rechargeable battery charger that it says is the sleekest and greenest way to power your Mac peripherals. Apple's rechargeable batteries: silver in an Apple-esque kind of way. (Credit: Apple) The Apple Battery Charger has a power-management system that cuts the power when AA batteries are fully charged to nearly eliminate [...]
About two dozen music websites in China appear to have shut down after authorities announced an investigation into sites operating without the appropriate government licenses. On July 9, China’s Ministry of Culture released a notice listing 68 online music sites that had violated the ministry’s regulations and failed to obtain the necessary operating license. Now [...]
All the most commonly used Internet browsers are vulnerable to exploits that can force them to cough up users’ personal information that can be used to hack into bank accounts or set them up for other attacks, the Black Hat 2010 conference will be told this week. “None of the tools I will demonstrate are [...]
Designer fashion house Roberto Cavalli has decided to standardises its email systems by moving to the Google cloud. The company recently moved all its employees, 500 global users, from FTgate email servers to Google’s Gmail platform. This is part of the company’s deployment of Google Apps Premier Edition. According to Roberto Cavalli, the migration will [...]
Two initiatives to make it easier for developers to sell mobile applications through multiple channels will merge from September. The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), a group that plans to make it easier for developers to write apps that can access network information, will join forces with the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL). WAC has appointed the [...]
Apple’s multi-touch assault on the desktop continues with the $69 Magic Trackpad, a jumbo touch panel that allows desktop Mac users to do away with their mouses and act like they’re using MacBook Pros. But just because people can say goodbye to the mouse doesn’t mean they will. Here are four reasons not to count [...]
Google has updated Maps for Mobile on Android to version 4.4, which adds integration with its Places location-aware search functionality along with other fixes and improvements such as Place Pages that also lists hours of operation for businesses. The updated application requires Android 1.6 at minimum and is now available via the Android Market.
Jeffrey Friedl created a tool to optimize JPEG photo quality in Lightroom and has incorporated the results into his Lightroom photo export software. (Credit: Jeffrey Friedl / screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) It’s a fair question for photography enthusiasts uploading their latest shots to the Web or backing up an archive: Where do you set the [...]
