Cheap technology helps small business grow big. 8 March 2012Last updated at 19:02 ET Viewpoint by David Mills Ricoh Europe Small is beautiful: David Mills of Ricoh says small companies could be ideally placed to take advantage of a rapidly changing landscape As part of our series on how small and medium-sized firms use technology - which will run throughout March - we ask experts for their views.
David Mills is executive vice president and member of the Ricoh Europe board. Ricoh is a global provider of technology and services specialising in managed document services, production printing, office solutions and IT services. Typically there is a perception that large organisations are able to invest in more advanced technological solutions which are out of reach of smaller companies, preventing them from competing on a level playing field. However, businesses will experience significant change in their industry sectors in the future, due to the impacts of technology. Big data's big impact. Introducing the new iPhone PART 2. Apple forced to suspend push email service in Germany. 25 February 2012Last updated at 08:04 ET iPhone users in Germany have no push email service from Apple Apple has been forced to stop push email for iCloud and MobileMe users on iOS devices while they are in Germany.
Push email allows users to see their messages on their devices automatically as soon as they are delivered. However, the ability to receive emails by other means, such as by opening the Mail app, is unaffected. Apple offers 25 million iPhone 4 owners $15 or a free case in settlement over antenna problems. By Michael Zennie Updated: 09:13 GMT, 21 February 2012 Up to 25 million iPhone 4 owners will be eligible to receive $15 or a free bumper from Apple after the company settled several class-action lawsuits over problems with the antenna on the outside of its phones.
The so-called 'death grip' -- holding the phone at the point where the two antennas meet -- leads to diminished reception and dropped calls. It began surfacing soon after the phone was released in the summer of 2010. The settlement announced Monday, combines 18 lawsuits filed against the tech giant that allege the company was 'misrepresenting and concealing material information in the marketing, advertising, sale, and servicing of its iPhone 4 -- particularly as it relates to the quality of the mobile phone antenna and reception and related software.' Apple Makes Statement On iPhone 4 Signal Loss Flaw. Group test: what's the best smartphone? By Chris Martin | PC Advisor | 10 April 14 22.
BlackBerry Z10 Reviewed on: 5 February 13RRP: From £36 per monthRating: The design and build quality of the Z10 just makes it seem like a cheap plastic iPhone to us. Hardware is reasonable with the screen being the stand out feature and the BlackBerry 10 software makes this the most attractive BlackBerry smartphone to date. 21. iPhone 5C. The Gadget Show's Smartphones best buys. Smartphone. A smartphone, or smart phone, is a mobile phone with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than basic feature phones.[1][2][3] Early smartphones typically combined the features of a mobile phone with those of another popular consumer device, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA), a media player, a digital camera, or a GPS navigation unit.
Modern smartphones include all of those features plus the features of a touchscreen computer, including web browsing, Wi-Fi, and 3rd-party apps. History[edit] Early years[edit] Devices that combined telephony and computing were first conceptualized in 1973, and were offered for sale beginning in 1993. Forerunners[edit] The first mobile phone to incorporate PDA features was an IBM prototype developed in 1992 and demonstrated that year at the COMDEX computer industry trade show.
Timeline of Apple Inc. products. This timeline of Apple Inc. products is a list of all stand-alone Apple II, Macintosh, and other computers, as well as computer peripherals, expansion cards, software, ancillary products, and consumer electronics sold by Apple Inc. in order of introduction date.
Timeline of Apple Inc. products Products on this timeline indicate introduction dates only and not necessarily discontinued dates, as new products begin on a contiguous product line. Text timeline[edit] Products are shaded using their corresponding graphical timeline color schemes (unshaded) from all others. 1970s[edit] Apple I Apple II 1980s[edit] Apple III Apple Lisa. Motorola ROKR. The Motorola Rokr (/ˈrɒkər/, styled ROKR) is a series of mobile phones from Motorola, part of a 4LTR line developed before the spin out of Motorola Mobility.
Rokr models were released starting in September 2005 and continuing into 2009. They were notable for incorporating support of media player features. E1[edit] The E1 is the first phone to be integrated with Apple Inc.'s iTunes music player. Description and acceptance. History of the iPhone. The Newton MessagePad was an early handheld device manufactured by Apple in the mid-1990s.
Some of its concepts and functions have been incorporated into the iPhone. The history of the iPhone line of phones begins with a direction from Steve Jobs to Apple Inc.'s engineers, whereby he asked them to investigate touchscreens and a tablet computer, which later came to fruition with the iPad.[1][2][3][4] Also, many have noted the device's similarities to Apple's previous touch-screen portable device, the Newton MessagePad.[5][6][7][8] Like the Newton, the iPhone is nearly all screen. Its form factor is credited to Apple's head of design, Jonathan Ive.[3][9] On January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention,[16] and that it would be released later that year. Mobile OS Smackdown: Windows Phone 7 vs. iOS vs. Android. The iPhone and Google Android devices had a few years to refine their user interface and features, which gave them plenty of time to get ahead of Microsoft's ailing Windows Mobile OS.
But in a swift turn of events, Microsoft came up with a totally new user interface for the Windows Phone 7 OS, which will arrive on multiple phones November 8. But Microsoft had to build Windows Phone 7 from scratch, which means that, if it was not to suffer a significant delay in release, the new mobile operating system had to leave out several features that we now take for granted on our smartphones. At the same time, though, Microsoft brings a few interesting new elements to the table with Windows Phone 7, elements that some of you might prefer over the usability of an iPhone or an Android phone. We've looked at the main differences between Windows Phone 7, iOS, and Android to give you an idea of the state of mobile operating systems today.
What's Different About Windows Phone 7.