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‘The Invisible Woman’ Star-Director Ralph Fiennes Talks Celebrity Bruises, Slow-Burn Relationships And ‘Total Interior Inhabitation’

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For an actor best known for roles playing Nazis (Schindler’s List), doomed cartographers (The English Patient), British diplomats (The Constant Gardener), and wizards so evil their names must never...
    






‘The Invisible Woman’ Star-Director Ralph Fiennes Talks Celebrity Bruises, Slow-Burn Relationships And ‘Total Interior Inhabitation’

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For an actor best known for roles playing Nazis (Schindler’s List), doomed cartographers (The English Patient), British diplomats (The Constant Gardener), and wizards so evil their names must never...
    






One-stop mobile app offers Broadway ticket ease

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One-stop mobile phone app TodayTix offers Broadway ticket buying ease NEW YORK (AP) — There are plenty of ways to get tickets to Broadway shows: You can wait in line at Times Square's...
    






The season’s weirdest, wackiest tech gifts

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Shopping for the techie who has everything? Check out these offbeat gift ideas NEW YORK (AP) — It's tough to shop for techies. They already own everything with a plug or rechargeable...
    






Apple Smartphone Market Share to Peak 22% Says ABI Research

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Research firm ABI Research has offered up some predictions for the smartphone market over the coming year and beyond. The research firm predicts that smartphone shipments will account for 50% of all...

Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup 2012 launches Today

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The Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup 2012 is launching today. From 24 July to 30 November, innovators from all over the world are invited to submit their products and prototypes for...

ABI: Apple and Samsung have over 55 percent of the smartphone space, 90 percent of its money-making

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ABI Apple and Samsung have over 50 percent of the smartphone space, 90 percent of its moneymaking

Tech finance sleuth Horace Dediu was clearly astute when he determined that it's really Apple and Samsung's smartphone world, and we just live in it. ABI Research just estimated that, combined, the iPhone and Galaxy creators were responsible for more than 90 percent of the profits in the first quarter of 2012 -- mostly through carving out more than 55 percent of the total market share for themselves. We already know that only a handful of companies, like HTC, were making any kind of profit at the same time; ABI, however, has underscored just how much of a mountain Nokia has to climb to reclaim its glory days. For Nokia to completely make up for Symbian's decline, shipments of Lumia phones will have to jump a staggering 5,000 percent this year. The Finnish phone maker is certainly hopeful, but with the 80 percent growth rate in China mostly being led by locals like Huawei and ZTE, that's no mean feat.

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ABI: Galaxy Note and other phablets will ship at 208 million a year by 2015, blot out the sun

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Some of us aren't convinced that phablets will last as more than a short-term success. That hasn't stopped ABI Research from predicting that enough of the size XXL smartphones will sell to block all natural sunlight. The study team sees phones like the Galaxy Note and Optimus Vu as just the start, with help from Huawei, HTC and others leading to a crescendo of 208 million phablets shipped in 2015 alone. Of course, as with many of these predictions, the estimate is based on a little bit of knowledge and a lot of speculation about the market's tastes: the researchers have a hunch that the values of navigation, reading and the web will steer us to big screens, and they're including devices just over 4.6 inches like the One X or the upcoming Galaxy S III. There's a bit of evidence to support the claims -- Samsung sold five million Notes in five months, and HTC has seen some brisk One X sales -- but that's still no guarantee that regular-sized smartphones will have to fight in the shade.

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More than 70 percent of mobile users pay little for apps, big spenders make up for us cheapskates

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We know smartphone and tablet owners like to buy games. But if you go by a new ABI exploration of user habits, most of us aren't buying much of anything. More than 70 percent of the crowd spends little to nothing on mobile apps, dragging down the average of $14 spent per month among paying customers to a median of $7.50 when you include the skinflints. As you might imagine, that leaves the remaining 30 percent making up for a lot of slack: three percent of downloaders represent a fifth of all the spending in the mobile app world. Researchers suggest that developers focus on a long-term strategy of freemium pricing or utility apps to get more customers buying, but we imagine that writing more games about catapulting frustrated birds might just work out on its own.

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