The birth of a Scottish actress, a first lunar satellite and a revolution in the smartphone market.
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Smartphones have upended communication and consumption, leaving retailers to transform themselves to attract fickle, online buyers.
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On This Day – November 5
NEWS OF ICELAND (Iceland) Worldcrunch REYKJAVIK – Iceland is an island in the far north of Europe, just south of the Arctic Circle, known for musical talents Bjork and Sigur Ros and popular crime writer Arnaldur Indridason. Not much else. Aside maybe for the fact that everyone in Iceland is related. Yes, everyone in Iceland […]
BARCELONA – Bas van Abel brought a novel idea to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The 35-year-old Dutch entrepreneur is currently at work, with ten others, on the first “FairTrade” smartphone – a phone that will contain no gold mined in war zones, will not be assembled in a soulless Chinese factory, and will […]
Thanks to Android boom and strategic mistakes at Microsoft, Bing search is even further behind Google on mobile devices.
For months, free smartphone instant messaging service WhatsApp has been topping the download charts. It is a favorite application for both iPhone and Android users. To the annoyance of cell phone providers, WhatsApp has become a kind of quasi replacement for the old fee-based SMS. According to WhatsApp developers, their servers handle over 10 billion […]