January 7th, 2013 by Music Ally

Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has published some predictions to kick the show off, including its belief that global spending on consumer electronics devices will hit $1.1 trillion in 2013 alone...

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March 21st, 2012 by Music Ally

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US developer OMGPOP is having a massive hit with mobile game Draw Something (30m downloads and counting in six weeks), but it's about to launch a Facebook social game with a specific musical focus

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March 9th, 2012 by Music Ally

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You could kindly call 2011 a transitional year for Nokia, as it started to phase out its Symbian platform in favour of Windows Phones. But that also meant a transition from a $2.74bn operating profit in...

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February 20th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Finnish startup Rovio Mobile has big plans for the next instalment of its Angry Birds game franchise. The company has announced that Angry Birds Space will launch on 22 March across "mobile gaming, animation,...

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February 14th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Samsung has sprung an early surprise in advance of the Mobile World Congress show later this month, unveiling a new model in its Galaxy Tab range of Android tablets.

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February 14th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Stung by criticism of conditions in the Chinese factories of its manufacturing partner Foxconn, Apple has announced that it has called in the Fair Labor Association to conduct 'special voluntary audits'...

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February 6th, 2012 by Music Ally

More smartphones were shipped than PCs in 2011. Canalys claims that manufacturers shipped 488m smartphones last year, versus 415m PCs (with 15% of the latter being tablets, which arguably sit in between...

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January 31st, 2012 by Music Ally

NPD Group has published its latest predictions for sales of tablet devices. It thinks 72.7m units shipped globally in 2011, and that this will rise to 383.3m by 2017.

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January 25th, 2012 by Music Ally

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The Pirate Bay is looking beyond digital files and content to a time where physical objects can be shared over the internet.

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