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From Bjango, app Pioneer Marc Edwards - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep05
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:36:22
Publish Date: 2012-03-01 23:20:45
Description: Garry interviews Marc Edwards from Bjango, a pioneer of the app industry. Leon and Garry talk about topics including: According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global Microsoft smartphone shipments grew 36 percent sequentially to reach 2.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011. . Rumors have been circulating among serious Apple fans that the iPad3 would debut the first week of March and the company's now confirmed it'll be making some kind of iPad related announcement on March 7. . Facebook is accessing smartphone users' personal text messages, an investigation has revealed. . Apple has acquired Australian-born internet entrepreneurs Ben Keighran and Cathy Edwards’ mobile app search engine Chomp for about $US50 million. . Sony introduced the Xperia Ion at CES last month, but now Sony Mobile President Bert Nordberg has announced that the handset will launch in markets around the world this summer. The handset has a 4.6-inch 1280 x 720 display with a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, NFC support, and 12-megapixel camera. . Thierry Breton, CEO of Atos and a former French finance minister, wants a "zero email" policy to be in place within as early as 18 months, arguing that only 10 per cent of the 200 electronic messages his employees receive per day on average turn out to be useful. Instead he wants them to use an instant messaging and a Facebook-style interface. . Telstra has revealed its price plans for access to the national broadband network (NBN), after agreeing a wholesale broadband deal with the $36 billion government network Telstra's new 24-month bundles range from $80 per month for five gigabytes of data and unlimited local calls, to $150 per month for 500 gigabytes and unlimited local, long distance and Australian mobile calls. . Mozilla has partnered with mobile network operator Telefónica to deliver a complete mobile operating system built around standards-based Web technologies. Their initial target is to produce devices with smartphone-like capabilities that can be built inexpensively and sold at the price of a common feature phone. . Dell looks like it's going to be shifting its focus to enterprise and away from consumer PCs. Brad Anderson, president of Dell's enterprise group, says that "we're no longer a PC company, we're an IT company." . Twitter could become an educational tool. French preschoolers near Bordeaux are posting daily updates to the micro-blogging website Twitter, despite not yet knowing how to read or write. . Mercedes is doing an update to the COMAND system in A-Class autos. With the aid of two apps - Digital DriveStyle and Drive Kit Plus for iPhone -- you'll be able to access your Apple smartphone's contents via a built-in display and navigate that iTunes library with an armrest-mounted Controller. Siri will be riding shotgun as the personal assistant can be accessed through the onboard system to send messages, select music, check the weather and schedule meetings.
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