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The rugged Kyocera DuraPlus mobile phone on Sprint's network can survive in a meter of water and features Direct Connect push-to-talk connectivity. - Sprint and Kyocera Communications have unveiled the rugged Kyocera DuraPlus mobile phone to withstand the extreme conditions of military, public safety, construction and utility work. The DuraPlus is one of the first phones to work with Sprint's new Direct Connect push-to-talk service. Sprint ...

Doctors have embraced the Apple iPad, but more software innovation is needed for clinical computing on the tablet, Spyglass Consulting Group reveals in a new study. - Although doctors believe the Apple iPad will play a beneficial role in health care, many say the popular Apple tablet lacks the software innovation needed in the medical profession, according to a new study by Spyglass Consulting Group. In the report quot;Point of Care Computing for Physicians 201...

No matter what team you find yourself rooting for this Super Bowl Sunday, pretty much everyone can agree that a high-definition, beer-soaked and burger-filled Super Bowl party is close to a patriotic duty. However, the Super Bowl is about more than chips and dip, overhyped commercials, and overblown halftime shows haven't we heard enough from Madonna in the past three months? There's the game, of course, but also the opportunity for you to show off to your friends the latest gadgets and gizmos to make your party the one to remember, whatever the outcome of the game. On top of that, football fans have a wide selection of smartphone apps available through Apple's App Store or Android Market to keep you up to date with scores, trivia and other game information. Last but not least, there's the odd cooler-plus-goalpost folly, which we've included to keep things interesting. Here are our picks for the biggest, best and HD-brightest of the bunch. - ...

Apple's attempt to banish the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet in Germany hit a wall when a court denied its motion for a preliminary sales ban. - Samsung ratcheted up another victory in its legal battles with Apple over patent violations, when a German court refused to grant Apple a preliminary sales ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Apple can perhaps take consolation in the fact that, although the M...

Nokia led the overall phone market during the fourth quarter and all of 2011. Apple leaped ahead of LG for third place, while No. 2 Samsung was on Nokia's heels. - Apple topped the smartphone market during the fourth quarter of 2011, but add in feature phones, and it's Nokia that, despite falling shares, is still the global leader, according to market research firm IDC. Nokia shipped 113.5 million units during the quarter, down from 123.7 million during t...

HTC's Help page advised users of the issue, which can be resolved through an automatic software upgrade, though some users will have to update manually. - Smartphone manufacturer HTC admitted several of its phones running Googles Android operating system have a security flaw that allows hackers or an application to view and access WiFi security information. The affected phones include the Desire HD, the Glacier, the Droid Incredible, the ThunderBo...

Sixty-seven percent of SMBs surveyed plan to create or improve their Web presence, including SEO and SEM, an increase of 7 percent from the prior year. - While opinions vary on the pace of the economic recovery, 55 percent of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) surveyed reported their business had either already recovered from the recession or expected to recover within the next six months. Those numbers are even more encouraging for businesses w...

By 2016, competition among PaaS vendors will produce new programming models, new standards and new software market leaders. - Platform as a service (PaaS) is a core layer of the cloud computing architecture, and its evolution will affect the future of most users and vendors in enterprise software markets, according to IT research firm Gartner. PaaS is a common reference to the layer of cloud technology architecture tha...

Google battled back against Microsoft over the software giant's allegations against the search engine's privacy policies. - Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Feb. 1 fired back at Microsoft's advertising slam against the search engine's privacy policy updates, publishing a myth-busting blog post that addresses its rival's key allegations. The backstory: Google Jan. 24 said it will fold 60 privacy policies into one blanket policy,...

Facebook's Feb. 1 filing for a $5 billion initial public stock offering has the potential to give the world's biggest social network a market capitalization that would put it in the same rarified league as Google and Apple. The question is whether its future growth and financial performance will keep it there. - Facebook filed for a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO) Feb. 1, claiming to make $3.7 billion in annual revenue, $1.8 billion in operating income and $1 billion in net income. With some 845 million users, Facebook may not have been an Internet darling for a few years. When the social net...