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  • Amazon Has Vision with Twitch

    Counter-Strike Could Be Next Orange Is the New Black On 25 August, Amazon announced it had reached an agreement to acquire Twitch Interactive for $970 million. Twitch provides a platform ...

  • The Destiny of Console Gaming

    Sony May be Ahead on Points, But the Fight's Not Over Yet When Sony announced the PlayStation 4 last year, it came out with guns blazing in the hope of ...

  • Out of Context

    Nokia's Maps Buy Made Sense at the Time The future of Here is under question following the announcement that its visionary leader, Michael Halbherr, will be leaving soon. In late ...

  • A Niche of a Niche

    Smartphones for Seniors Get Little Traction Demographics don't always correlate with the realities of the market. Smartphones for seniors seems an obvious niche given the expanding penetration rate of smartphones ...

  • Time for Smartphones to Toughen Up?

    Samsung and Sony Could Make Waterproof Mainstream Call it the GoPro effect, or perhaps it's the talk of hardened screens and metal casings. Smartphones are constant companions exposed to the ...

  • Clash of the TyTNs

    Windows Phone Gets an HTC Flagship. More Needed. Yesterday, HTC unveiled the rumoured HTC One (M8) for Windows. It's a Windows Phone version of the HTC One (M8), HTC's flagship ...

  • Is Frame-Free the Way to Be?

    Sharp Highlights the Frameless Fashion Trend Are good looks enough to make a flagship smartphone? Yesterday, Japan-based Sharp unveiled two sleek-looking Android devices: the Aquos Crystal and the larger Aquos ...

  • The Temptation of Generation Inflation

    Operators Begin Marketing 4G as 5G Get ready for another generation gap. The countdown to 5G mobile services is years away, but the term is already scattered across some operators' ...

  • Indoor Positioning: It’s Here

    Inside Information Will Be Very Valuable Detailed location information is becoming very valuable to the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Qualcomm and retailers everywhere. Smartphones can now calculate indoor ...

  • Voice over LTE: Loud and Clear

    More Hero VoLTE Devices Needed To Drive Revs Well, this is rich: operators around the globe are rolling out Voice over LTE (VoLTE). T-Mobile and AT&T already offer VoLTE in ...