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Nokia Takes Yet Another Blow, Android Outshines Symbian in Q4
Right now, Symbian OS is staring down the barrel of a loaded Android smartphone. It looks like the record in total mobile sales that Nokia’s Symbian once held has been overwhelmed by Android sales. The last quarter of 2010, Android shipped just 6% more handsets, beating the record by a nose. According to some research, ...
Stanford Researchers Bring NFC into Reach of Social Apps
When Google first introduce Near-Field Communication (NFC) it has been lauded as a platform for financial transactions and advertisement; but these two business-practical applications only represent a sliver of how the technology could be used. Researchers at Stanford’s MobiSocial lab have brainstormed other ideas of what they could do with the technology and now there’s ...
MPAA Bulldog, BREIN, Brags About Shuttering "a Dozen" US Torrent Sites
I came to this news expecting there was something of a witch-hunt going down over torrent sites. Instead, I discovered a serious amount of blowhard bragging in press release form by BRIEN, a Dutch anti-piracy outfit who work with the MPAA out of the Netherlands. Right now, they’re bragging that they’ve gotten 12 torrent sites, ...
Preview SDK Tools for Android 3.0 Honeycomb, a Focus on User Interface and Design
Now that we’ve been waiting for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) for quite a while every little thing is magic, especially when it comes to preparing for the eventual release. Thus, when we heard about the release of a preview SDK for the system, we figured we’d introduce it to everyone. Developers will especially be curious about ...
BlackBerry PlayBook Looking More like an Android Capable Platform Every Day
This particular rumor has been in the wind for quite a while now: that RIM might open up its upcoming tablets and smartphones using the QNX OS architecture to allow Android apps to run on their platforms. In fact, one of our contributors, Anton Wahlman opined about this exact same watershed event taking place last ...
IBM Collaborates With Range Technology to Build Green Data Center and Also Greens Bank of China in the UK
During the dawn of IBM’s centennial year, they’re yet again reaching into a new horizon by taking cloud-computing into China. Yesterday, IBM and Range Technology Development announced a collaboration to build a colossal cloud-computing data center in Hebei Province, China. They boast that the data center, with an expected completion date in 2016, will be ...
IBM Centennial: It Has Been 100 Years of International Business Machines
…even if the company did start with the name Tabulating Machine Company. It’s 2011 and IBM is 100 years old. Get ready for 13 minutes of whirlwind tour of IBM history through narration and photographs. We can thank IBM for demonstrating an early form of e-mail in the 1940s, and even some of the first ...
Juniper Networks and EMC Show Tech Industry Strength Returning
It looks like both EMC and Juniper Networks have seen some extremely strong market gains. This should hearten many about the strength of the tech industry and where it’s potentially headed. Especially in light of the recent EMC “Breaking Records” event last week. We’re currently following some of the healthy market indicators listed in UK ...
Social Gaming Still has Big Shoes to Grow Into, Marketers Take Heed of 61.9 Million Potential Eyeballs
Social gaming has become a mainstay of the online experience for millions of Internet users and certainly became a multi-million dollar industry overnight. In fact, if we keep citing figures, we’ll see that it’s expected to surpass the 1 billion dollar watermark. That’s a lot of dollars. The casual and social gaming industry have seen ...
Apple Intends to Join the Smartphone as Wallet Revolution, Plans to Roll Out NFC
Near-field Communication made its first appearance the Android ecosystem, but its obvious usefulness for smartphone payments has made it a powerful technology for the personal transaction industry. The technology only exists in a few handsets currently and it’s obvious to the industry that Apple would be the next best platform to develop it on. Bloomberg ...
