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Android loses market share,as Apple has exceptional quarter, Gartner says

Posted February 15, 2012 - 6:00 am

Android lost smartphone market share for the first time, as Apple had a great fourth quarter buoyed by the launch of the iPhone 4S, according to data from market research company Gartner.
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DOJ approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

Posted February 13, 2012 - 6:24 pm

The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Google's acquisition of mobile-phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion, following the European Commission's approval earlier in the day.
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Japan's largest carrier to launch test service to combat Android fragmentation

Posted February 10, 2012 - 7:59 am

Japan's largest mobile operator is prepping an elaborate testing center, with hundreds of handsets monitored by streaming web cameras, to help software developers debug their apps on the growing morass of Android devices and software versions.
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Feds look beyond LightSquared to set GPS interference standards

Posted February 8, 2012 - 8:57 pm

A high-ranking federal official and aviation industry leaders called on Wednesday for rules to prevent future interference with GPS, looking beyond a proposal by would-be hybrid mobile operator LightSquared that may be doomed by broad opposition.
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Canada ruling pushes Dish's LTE plan forward

Posted February 7, 2012 - 3:06 pm

The Canadian government has approved the transfer of satellite spectrum to Dish Network, putting the company just one major ruling away from building a land-based 4G mobile data network on the frequencies.
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Tiff over LightSquared reveals odd partnership

Posted February 2, 2012 - 2:11 pm

LightSquared founder Philip Falcone's response to ethics allegations by a U.S. senator sheds some light on a strange chapter in the carrier's ongoing bid to build a controversial cellular data network.
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Google Docs for Android gets offline access

Posted February 2, 2012 - 6:16 am

Google Docs users can now get offline access to documents on their Android-based smartphones and tablets, Googlesaid in a blog post on Wednesday.
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NY hotel boosts Wi-Fi with wall-mounted switches

Posted January 23, 2012 - 7:02 am

A five-star hotel room high above New York's Central Park sounds like a nice place to spend the night, but if your iPhone doesn't work, it may seem like little more than a gilded cage.
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Bada merger with Tizen OS not definite, says Samsung

Posted January 18, 2012 - 7:02 am

Samsung Electronics appears to be backtracking from earlier reports that said it was merging its own bada mobile platform with the Intel-backed Tizen operating system, stating on Wednesday that no decision on the merger has been made.
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Clearwire, China Mobile detail coming TD-LTE testbeds

Posted January 17, 2012 - 7:58 pm

Clearwire will test its LTE network in two U.S. cities and China Mobile will build test networks in select Chinese cities early this year to foster development of a global ecosystem for the version of the technology they will be using.
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Japan's DeNA looks beyond Alibaba to target Chinese market

Posted January 17, 2012 - 4:46 am

Japanese mobile platform operator DeNA has made another move to expand its business in China by partnering with local company NetDragon Websoft to develop and operate mobile games in the country.
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10 questions for Skybox Security CFO Lior Barak

Posted January 16, 2012 - 8:09 am

Name: Lior Barak
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Beijing's iPhone 4S turmoil a lesson to Apple, say analysts

Posted January 13, 2012 - 5:22 am

Apple should consider launching its products earlier in China, and expand its online distribution there, if it wants to avoid future displays of customer dissatisfaction like Friday's egg throwing at a Beijing company store, according to analysts.
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Tizen project releases preview of OS source code

Posted January 11, 2012 - 1:57 am

The Tizen project, which is developing an open-source operating system for devices like smartphones and tablets, is offering a download of the alpha release of the source code of the operating system.
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Visa certifies smartphones for NFC payments

Posted January 10, 2012 - 9:22 am

Visa has added smartphones from Samsung Electronics, Research In Motion and LG Electronics to the list of devices it has certified to work with the 185,000 NFC-based payWave payment terminals in Europe.
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10 questions for Palo Alto Networks CFO Michael Lehman

Posted January 9, 2012 - 2:31 pm

Name: Michael Lehman
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Huawei introduces "world's slimmest smartphone"

Posted January 9, 2012 - 11:56 am

At about 6.8 millimeters thick, Huawei Technologies' Android 4.0-based Ascend P1 S is the thinnest smartphone yet introduced, the company said on Monday.
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Study: iPhone 4S users consume the most data

Posted January 5, 2012 - 7:19 pm

iPhone 4S users consume twice as much data as iPhone 4 users, signaling that operators will have to continue to battle with growing data volumes, according to a report published by network management software vendor Arieso.
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Facebook brings back the hack

Posted January 4, 2012 - 7:43 pm

In an effort to challenge programmers worldwide, Facebook has brought back its Hacker Cup contest for a third round, the company announced Wednesday.
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Android, iOS gain subscribers in US while RIM slides

Posted December 30, 2011 - 6:00 am

Google's Android and Apple's iOS gained a larger percentage of the U.S. smartphone market in the latter part of the year, while Research in Motion's share declined along with Microsoft and Symbian, according to the latest figures from market researcher comScore.
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Dropbox optimizes app for Android 4.0

Posted December 23, 2011 - 9:25 am

Cloud storage company Dropbox has added offline storage and bulk upload to an redesigned version of its Android application, which has been optimized for Android 4.0.
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Akamai acquires mobile, cloud traffic optimizer Cotendo

Posted December 22, 2011 - 8:48 am

Akamai Technologies has acquired Cotendo is a bid to become better at speeding up enterprise cloud and mobile traffic, the companies said on Thursday.
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PayPal tests mobile payments in Sweden

Posted December 21, 2011 - 11:45 am

PayPal is testing mobile payments using NFC (Near Field Communications) stickers in Stockholm, allowing users to pay for goods at two stores using Apple's iPhone and Android-based smartphones.
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10 questions for Box CFO Dylan Smith

Posted December 19, 2011 - 12:31 pm

-- Name: Dylan Smith, co-founder and CFO
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New Clearwire funding won't guarantee LTE plan

Posted December 15, 2011 - 5:30 pm

Clearwire's big payday on Tuesday, when it raised US$734 million through a stock offering and a new investment by majority owner Sprint Nextel, helped the WiMax carrier but didn't seal the deal on its planned LTE network.
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