The Post-PC world is about more than a shift in the device landscape.
An interview of Craig Palli from Fiksu provided some fascinating figures about how the value of iPad, iPhone and Android smartphone application users is changing as the device owner profiles shift and usage patterns evolve.
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But the company is looking to shift into the cellphone infrastructure behind the device, such as cell towers, and has already made one acquisition to show its intent.
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Tech consultancy Davies Murphy Group said that within the Android market there had been a notable shift towards people wanting to buy a single device rather than both a smartphone and tablet.
The main shift has been to more direct manipulation as the device processes more natural inputs.
Among other findings from the latest Outsell study, "Device Wars, ": a possible shift in the e-reader market.
"What we are excited about is that the world may shift to a place where everybody has a 3G connected device for browsing the Web, " he said at the time.
Samsung meanwhile is supporting the development of the Tizen OS for mobile phones, an HTML 5 based open source project that will shift the balance of power in mobility away from the device app store to the networks, a move that looks set to be the next disruption in smartphones.
Its services can be accessed from anywhere and any device, a capability that is particularly important as users shift to mobile platforms.
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Analysts have said the shift to such hardware will help cut down on the cost to build the device.
The hardware shift is designed to make it easier for programmers to develop games for the device, Sony said.
At some point during the shift (determined by the user), data is synched from the mobile device that triggers the middleware into a transaction.
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As I mentioned above there is little doubt that demand is growing for those network and computer security companies as consumers and businesses both embrace things like bring your own device (BYOD), cloud and web based computing and the shift from PCs to tablets.
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The junior doctor had recorded details of patients' conditions and medication on the device and was meant to hand it over to the next doctor on shift.
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We'll be keeping a close eye on how the November results alter the status quo -- between Windows Phone, LG's Optimus G and a cavalcade of multi-device launches, there's been potential for more than one tidal shift in the mobile world in the past few weeks.
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Firefox has become one of the most important pieces of software around today as consumers shift from using their PCs to run applications living on their hard drives to a communications device able to connect with applications living on distant servers.
Very rarely does a new device outside the traditional technology paradigm appear in Silicon Valley, and Google Glass represents one such archetypal shift.
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