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A good reason to speculate early about the iPhone 6  and iPhone 6s is that the latest release, iPhone 5 (and the upcoming iPhone 5s) does not carry many innovations apart from reduction in thickness and weight. In addition, Apple is under intense pressure from competitors, mainly Samsung to release sooner then they may wish for. iPhone 6 concept design released by Apple Inc. back in 2011 Market-speculation includes a wide range of topics. A more elegant overall design, curved screen, p-Si LCD screen technology, inclusion of a projector, wireless charging, expanded storage, improved antenna, new display glass technology and an edge-to-edge screen. We expect iPhone 6 / 6s will have all elegance and attraction that have characterized all previous iPhones. A larger display surface, thinner body and lighter weight. The iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6s are rumored to feature a radical curved screen. This design rumor appears to have originated because Apple reportedly asked lens technology co...

Following is a list of Voice Commands used for the Windows 8 Operating System Activate/De-activate speech control -> Start/stop listening Click an item -> Click [item name] Double-click item -> Double-click [item name] Switch to an open program -> Switch to [program name] Scrolling -> Scroll [direction] Insert new line -> New line Insert new paragraph -> New paragraph Select -> Select [word(s)] Show applicable commands -> What can I say?

Barely a week after the official launch of the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system in conjunction with Microsoft's Surface ultrabook, we are receiving insider information that Windows 9  is scheduled to be released in October 2015, most probably during CES 2015.

As mobile payments are getting increasingly popular, today we will bring you a little article on Square , the mobile payment provider that allows you to make on-demand payments and receive payments (even from Credit Cards) using iPhone, Android and Samsung's  bada OS (Tizen). Square offers three main products: Square Card Reader , accepting payments on your smart-device Square Register , turing your tablet, phablet or smartphone into a digital cash-register Square Wallet , make payments and keep a digital cash-account, easily managed from your smart device Square is especially useful to small entrepreneurs allowing them to accept clients' payments easily, fast and instantly without a lot of extra costs and hassle. But since its launch, we are seeing many larger shops and franchise-chains picking up on this new trend as well, including over 74,000 Starbucks shops US-wide. In a sit-down with a select group of journalists, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Square CEO Jack Dorsey ...

Only 5 summers after the release of the first iPhone, there are now over a billion smartphone users on this planet. Research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics said the number of users topped one billion in the third quarter of 2012, with 1 out of every 7 people worldwide keeping one a smartphone in their pocket. The first smartphone, the Nokia Communicator (picture on the right), came out in 1996, but demand for the devices exploded after the release of Apple's iPhone in 2007. "By the third quarter of 2011, we estimate there were 708 million smartphones in global market. After a further year of upswing demand, the number of smartphones in use worldwide reached 1,038 billion units and the number of users is widely expected to double to two billion in less than three years. "Smartphone penetration is still relatively low, most of the world doesn't yet own a smartphone and there remains a huge opportunity for future growth, particularly in emerging markets such as ...

Japan's biggest mobile service provider NTT DoCoMo revealed on Monday that it launched a real-time phone translation service letting people chat over the phone in several different languages while their conversations are translated in real-time. The innovative service will give 2-way voice and text readouts of conversations between Japanese speakers and those talking in English, Chinese or Korean with a few seconds delay to allow the system to process the data. "Hanashite Honyaku" will be a free application that can be used on Android, iPhone and Samsung's bada OS. Consumers will also be able to call land lines using the same app. Woice-to-text readouts will be available in French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai in the upcoming weeks as well. "We hope that with this application, our subscribers will be able to widen the range of their communication," an NTT DoCoMo spokeswoman said. However, she conceded the service does...

Samsung, the market leader in smart devices is currently in the final stages of developing its own Operating System for their phones, tablets and phablets called bada OS . Earlier this year, we already learned that their new OS would merge with Intel's Tizen (formerly known as Meego), an open source project initiated by the world's largest chip-maker. The merge will make it more easy for app developers to cater both Tizen as Samsung users, as both operating system will share the same SDK. Basically, bada and Tizen will share the same core, only the jacket will be different.

Apple iPhone 6 release and features As I’m writing this, it’s barely a month since Apple released   its iPhone 5 , and yet we’re already looking forward to all the new stuff  Apple will put into the iPhone 6 . A newly released   patent , filed in March 2012, shows a truckload of new technologies currently being developed up in Apple’s R&D labs for new iDevices, including tactile keyboard , laser microphone , laserspeaker , and flexible display . iPhone 6 concept design prototype This is how we anticipate the new iPhone 6 will look like. Top feature: a transparent screen   All of these new features will reportedly work in line to give the user a dynamic iPhone 6 experience that aligns with the user’s needs: Flexible displays allow for more comfortable holding and typing, while the highly-advanced tactile screen creates buttons when needed so the user can feel the letters as they type, or touch the topography on an Apple map. By placing an array of piezoelectric ...

Did you try Microsoft Windows 8 and/or Microsoft Office 2013? In both of them file extensions for the files printed to the Virtual Microsoft XPS Document Witer printer (such a mouth full!) changed to .oxps (from the original .xps). Microsoft has changed the common extension to accomodate the integration of 4-character file extensions. Earlier we could already notice the change of .doc to .docx. With the following nifty little application you will be able to easily convert your .oxps and .xps files to one another format. For Windows 7, download the 32-bit version here and the 64-bit version here . For Windows 8, download the 64-bit version here .

NFC stands for Near F Field Communication and in short explaination it means that smart devices are able to communicate with each other when there are in close proximity. In 2013 this will especially become a big hit because many retailers will be offered the chance to install NFC paystation 's, which basically allows customers to pay with their smart-phone. In many cases this will gradually replace actual payment counters. Nearly all new smart-phone releases from the end of 2012 onwards will be equipped with NFC-chips.

The size of the Phablet (LG model) You may hear this new buzz-word for the first time as you are reading this article, but the term Phablet is one that will become one of the biggest hits in 2013. A Phablet is a device that fills the gap between smartphone and tablet . Think for instance of the Samsung Galaxy Note and the upcoming Apple iPad Mini . Size-wise they are slightly larger then a conventional smart-phone, and somewhat smaller then a conventional tablet. In 2013 a wide selection of phablet-models will start to see the daylight, produced by many different brands. So start getting used to the word PHABLET, it will surely become one of the biggest trends in 2013!

Samsung announced today the release of the all new Samsung Galaxy S4 in the summer of 2013. The latest model of the best sold smart-phone in the world will come with a 32GB to 128GB internal memory, smart voice commands, 3D OLED display and a larger then ever before screen size. Prices are expected to range between US$ 850 and US$ 1150. Fruthermore, insiders tell us that the Galaxy S4 will be available both in Google Android and Microsoft Windows Mobile versions.  A choice that Samsung users did not have before. We are waiting to get our hands on the first insider video's of the new SIV, but in the meantime, here are a few pictures we have been able to get. Hot off the release of Apple's iPhone 5, it seems that Samsung didn't want to loose the atte attention and chose to announce the release of the Samsung Galaxy S4 early on. And although the SIII was release barely a few months ago, we are now already anxiously awaiting the coming of this new masterpiece smart-phone from ...