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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Global Smartphones Market 2012-2016” report to their offering. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the continual decrease of smartphone prices. The Global Smartphones market has also been witnessing rapid technological advancement. However, high cost of production of smartphones could pose a challenge to the growth of this market. The key vendors dominating this space include Apple Inc., HTC Corp., Nokia Corp., and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The other vendors mentioned in this report are Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., LG Electronics, Motorola Inc., and Research In Motion Ltd. Commenting on the report, an analyst from the team said: Global smartphone vendors such as Samsung and Apple make huge investments in their R&D divisions. One of the main…

News America Marketing, the company behind the SmartSource family of marketing and promotional products and services in the U.S. and Canada, today announced the launch of its Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled at shelf program. The new program was developed in partnership with Thinaire, a pioneer in NFC and the leader in this rapidly growing field. The resulting “SmartSource with NFC” vehicles actively engage consumers in interactive experiences with brands while they shop. SmartSource with NFC is now available in the majority of News America Marketing’s 52,000 store national retail network. To create the SmartSource with NFC program, special RFID/NFC tags are embedded within a standard Shelftalk or Shelftalk Banner sign. These tags promptly deliver branded media content onto NFCenabled smartphones or tablets whenever a shopper places their mobile device in…

Technology companies continued to pump money into their lobbying efforts during the second quarter, with Google leading the pack spending $3.36 million on its effort to buy influence with federal legislators and policymakers, according to disclosure forms filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Microsoft spent $2.96 million in the second quarter, a company record, and up 47 percent from $2.01 million in the second quarter of 2012, the records filed on Monday show. Google’s spending declined 14 percent from the record level of 2012 when it spent $3.92 million in the second quarter. During that year it was facing an antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. Facebook spent $1.06 million, a 10 percent increase from $960,000 in the second quarter of 2012. “These lobbying expenditures are…

Apple is reportedly testing larger screens for its !Phone and !Pad devices, looking perhaps to follow rival Samsung’s strategy. The Cupertino mobile device maker is working with its suppliers to test !Phones with screens larger than 4 inches and an !Pad with a screen that measures slightly less than 13 inches diagonally according to the Wall Street Journal. The report cites unnamed sources at Apple’s Asian supplier partners. During Steve Jobs’ time at the company Apple refused to increase the size of the 3.5-inch display found on the early editions of the !Phone despite its rivals releasing devices with screens larger than 4 inches. That changed a year ago when Apple introduced the !Phone 5, which featured a 4-inch screen. If the new report is to be believed, it seems…

Apple will release its latest quarterly earnings report on Tuesday. Sales of !Phones for the justended quarter are expected to total about 26 million, around the same number as the same time last year. Stifel Nicolaus analysts Aaron Rakers and Sanji Wadhawini estimate that Apple sold about 21 million !Pads in the recent quarter, which would be a 24 percent increase from 17 million !Pads a year earlier. Here are details on the number of !Phones and !Pads that Apple shipped in recent quarters, with percentage change from same period a year earlier.…

Frank Sinatra had his first vacation retreat built in Palm Springs with a pool in mind - a pool shaped like a grand piano. This ingenious, man-made puddle of luxury was designed by cutting-edge architect Stewart Williams in 1947. Back then, the entire estate was erected in just ten months for a whopping $400,000, a fortune at that time. More than half a century later, the now-famous place dubbed Twin Palms for its two giant Washingtonian trees that still sway in the front yard, is a huge lure in a special neighborhood known in as the Movie Colony. Although Frank doesn’t live there anymore, you can - at least temporarily, thanks to the fact that the manse is for rent for special pvents or for spur-of-the-moment getaways. And who wouldn’t…

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ShopSmart: Six Apps for Scoring Extra Savings at the Supermarket Mobile tools to get shoppers organized and find deals at the grocery store Bad shopping habits can be tough to break - just ask the 63 percent of Americans in ShopSmart’s new national grocery shopping survey who admitted to buying things they don’t need because of a coupon or a sale. The September 2013 issue of ShopSmart magazine, from Consumer Reports, highlights new mobile tools that can get supermarket shoppers organized while saving them time and money at the store. “A trip to the grocery store can be overwhelming if you go in unprepared/’ said Lisa Lee Freeman, editor-in-chief of ShopSmart. “Make the most out of your supermarket’s website for coupons and download a few convenient apps that can help…

MUD Similar to the classic Stand By Me, two boys find a man hiding on a Mississippi island. This man relates some fascinating stories, including killing a Texan and having bounty hunters with a vengence after him. His plan, throughout is to meet up with the love of his life. The boys agree to help him in his pursuits, then hear of his more honest plans. Matthew McConaughey, Sam Shepard, and Reese Witherspoon costar. FIVE FACTS: 1. The film competed for the Palme d’or, the top award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. 2. Sundance Film Festival debuted the movie in early 2013. 3. Writing and directing the film, Jeff Nichols always had McConaughey in mind as the title character after seeing him in Lone Star. 4. McConaughey sees the…

Have you been having a hard time reaching the Apple Developer Website? You weren’t going crazy. They have released a press release explaining the lag in time. Apple took the site down on Thursday once they found that an “intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers.” The information was encrypted and Apple doesn’t believe it can be accessed, but they still couldn’t rule out that some names, mailing addresses, and email addresses were leaked. Because of that, they wanted to inform everyone and took the site down, “working around the clock since then” to repair the issue. Apple claims they are “completely overhauling our developer systems” to prevent something similar happening again. They are updating the server software and rebuilding the entire database. They expect the site…

Have you ever wondered how some of your favourite music has been realized and with what technology? You might be surprised by the familiarity and accessibility of the hardware and software used. That’s because Apple has long been a big name in the world of music and movie production, for the simple reason that its devices and apps are so often easier to use, more functional and more costeffective for the job than anything else. Across the world, great music has long been produced via Apple apps like Logic Pro and GarageBand, and even movies have been produced as well with apps such as !Movie. We all know how intuitive and technologically far-reaching Apple’s !Devices and Mac products are, making them the perfect devices to house apps like Logic Pro…

Apple’s latest quarterly results are likely to illustrate why investors are clamoring for the maker of the !Phone and the !Pad to come out with another trend-setting device. The report, due out after the stock market closes Tuesday, is expected to show that Apple Inc. is making less money as more customers buy its lower-priced !Phones and !Pads instead of the top-of-the-line models. Other consumers increasingly are bypassing Apple products altogether as smartphones and tablet computers running Google’s Android software win more fans. Those dynamics have changed the way that Wall Street _ and even parts of Main Street _ view Apple. Once regarded as an indomitable innovator, Apple now looks vulnerable and perhaps a step behind Google Inc. and the leading Android disciple, Samsung Electronics Co. If analysts’ projections…

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