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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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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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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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SAP confident of crossing $26 billion in revenue by 2015

Posted January 25, 2012 - 2:50 am

SAP said Wednesday that it had exceeded its guidance for revenue and profit in 2011, its best year in its 40-year history, and was positioned to exceed its revenue target of €20 billion (US$26 billion) in 2015.
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Joomla gets search, database reinforcements

Posted January 24, 2012 - 10:06 am

The newly released edition of the Joomla open source content management system now comes with a new search engine, and can use Microsoft SQL Server or PostGreSQL, in addition to MySQL.
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Microsoft gives details on mobile broadband improvements in Windows 8

Posted January 20, 2012 - 5:07 pm

Microsoft has given details on a variety of ways in which the upcoming Windows 8 operating system does a better job than its predecessors at letting users manage their connections to Wi-Fi and mobile broadband networks.
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Microsoft Q2 revenue up 5 percent, net income slightly down

Posted January 19, 2012 - 4:46 pm

Microsoft revenue rose in the second fiscal quarter, while its profits dipped a bit.
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Oracle calls school's revised lawsuit over software project a 'transparent ploy'

Posted January 19, 2012 - 3:52 pm

Oracle is asking a judge to throw out some of the claims made in a lawsuit filed against the vendor by Montclair State University over an allegedly failed ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) software project, according to a filing made this week in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
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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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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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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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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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Japan's DeNA to offer game platform on Alibaba's mobile OS

Posted December 14, 2011 - 4:07 am

Japanese mobile platform operator DeNA said Wednesday it will offer its core game software on the Aliyun mobile OS developed by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.
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Xamarin expands Android, iPhone cross-platform development kit

Posted December 9, 2011 - 9:04 am

On Thursday, Xamarin added an API (application programming interface) for contacts to its new cross-platform Mobile development kit, with which the company aims to make it easier for C# users to develop applications for Android and iOS at the same time.
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10 questions for Mimecast CFO Peter Campbell

Posted December 5, 2011 - 2:57 pm

Name: Peter Campbell
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Digital photo retouching quantified in new metric

Posted November 29, 2011 - 8:53 am

A pair of researchers from Dartmouth University have devised a metric for quantifying how much a digital photograph has been altered by digital photo-editing techniques.
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10 questions for Sesame Communications CFO Jon Engman

Posted November 21, 2011 - 11:28 am

-- Name: Jon Engman
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Samsung becomes biggest smartphone vendor, as Android's market share grows

Posted November 15, 2011 - 7:51 am

Samsung became the biggest smartphone vendor in the world during the third quarter, and Android's market share has surpassed 50 percent for the first time, market research company Gartner said on Tuesday as it reported on phone sales to end-users.
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Microsoft to 'align' Windows Phone, future Windows OSes

Posted November 7, 2011 - 4:34 pm

Microsoft, which on Monday held an event in New York to mark the U.S. launch of smartphones running its latest Windows Phone 7.5 OS, said it is taking steps to "align" the smartphone OS with its future tablet and PC OSes.
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10 questions for Fonality CFO Dan Rosenthal

Posted November 7, 2011 - 12:49 pm

Name: Dan Rosenthal
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First Angry Birds store slated to open in China

Posted October 31, 2011 - 1:44 am

Angry Birds publisher Rovio plans to sell official merchandise around the iconic game by opening its own retail store in China, according to a company official.
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10 questions for CDW CFO Ann E. Ziegler

Posted October 24, 2011 - 1:45 pm

-- Name: Ann E. Ziegler
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Dutch court rejects Samsung patent claims against Apple

Posted October 14, 2011 - 9:01 am

A judge at the district court in the Hague on Friday rejected claims that Samsung had made against Apple regarding four patents.
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Battle between Samsung and Apple heats up

Posted October 13, 2011 - 10:02 am

The legal battle between Apple and Samsung has reached fever pitch, with Apple getting an injunction to stop the sale of the Galaxy 10.1 tablet in Australia as Samsung launches new versions of its smartphones to keep them on sale in the Netherlands. Both companies are also preparing for a hearing in California scheduled for Thursday.
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