The latest version of Microsoft’s second screen app could put total multimedia control at the user’s fingertips. Unveiled alongside Microsoft’s new games console, the Xbox One, on Tuesday night, Smartglass is compatible with Apple and Android smartphones and tablets plus the growing ecosystem of Windows mobile devices, from Nokia’s Lumia phones to the company’s own Surface RT and Surface Pro tablet hybrids.

Apart from Apple, consumers and business professionals alike show little or no devotion to other mobile computing ecosystems, a report has found. The report, by Forrester Research, finds that 85 percent of the world's consumers have little or no loyalty to a mobile operating system and its platform -- whether it be Android, Windows Phone 8 or BlackBerry 10. Of the 9766 subjects studied, only 6 percent could claim to be truly dedicated to one operating system and its related products, be they tablets or smartphones.

Apart from Apple, consumers and business professionals alike show little or no devotion to other mobile computing ecosystems, a report has found. The report, by Forrester Research, finds that 85 percent of the world's consumers have little or no loyalty to a mobile operating system and its platform -- whether it be Android, Windows Phone 8 or BlackBerry 10. Of the 9766 subjects studied, only 6 percent could claim to be truly dedicated to one operating system and its related products, be they tablets or smartphones.

Samsung is courting developers in the hopes of bringing more Galaxy-feature-specific apps to its existing and future handsets. The South Korean phonemaker is launching The Samsung Smart App Challenge 2013 for Galaxy SIV, a global competition for app submissions that will help its Galaxy SIV smartphone owners get even more from the company's ‘Group Play' service -- a set of in-built features that allow  users to share multimedia content simultaneously between devices.