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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Amazon's popular Kindle Fire is missing in action outside the U.S., angering consumers in Canada and the U.K. and costing the company some money. - As Android
tablets go, Amazon's
(NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire is absolutely flourishing in the U.S., where
industry analysts estimate
the e-commerce company sold 4 million to 6 million of the 7-inch slates at $199
a pop for the holiday quarter.
Yet each
report of the Kindle Fire's success adds so...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Sprint reported a fourth-quarter loss, but also the end to a four-year period of recovery. The next few years will instead be about growth and of course the iPhone and LTE. - Sprint, during its first
full quarter with the Apple iPhone, reported a net loss of $1.3 billion and a
diluted loss of 43 cents per share during the fourth quarter of 2011. This was
the bad news.
The good news was that
Sprint, which announced its fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 8, sold 1.8 millio...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
While business owners indicate plans to hire in the next 12 months, they demonstrate some concern around hiring today. - Americas small business owners are the most optimistic since July 2008, according to the latest findings from the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey for the period Jan. 9-13, 2012. The Index now stands at positive 15 for January, compared with minus 3 in October and following two previou...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Verizon and Health Evolution Partners are looking to enable development in real-time care coordination and mobile data services. - Health care IT investor Health Evolution Partners
and Verizon Enterprise Solutions are collaborating to foster innovation in
mobile health, telemedicine and health data management. The partnership, which
both companies announced Feb. 6, will leverage Verizon's IT infrastructure to
spur innovatio...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Adobe has taken another step to secure Windows users from malicious Flash code by releasing a beta plug-in of Flash Player with a built-in sandbox for Firefox. - Two of the three major Web
browsers now offer some form of Flash Player with built-in sandbox protection.
Internet Explorer is not one of them.
Adobe has been modifying its
popular Flash Player to include the sandbox technology that would block malicious
code before executing. Adobe on Feb. 6 r...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Updated: Google is preparing its Chrome Screenwise program to gain more information about Web surfers. The move comes as concerns over the company's privacy policy changes abound. - Updated: Google
(NASDAQ:GOOG) is willing to pay online surfers to browse the Web and share data
about their travels with the search-engine giant.
The company
has begun soliciting users for its Screenwise
program, in which it will pay Chrome users in Amazon gift cards to
surf Websites. Users mu...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
A CPPI report highlights the fact that cloud computing and mobile technologies have lowered the cost of entry for smaller firms. - Small businesses have the power to revive the nations economy; they just need the opportunity, technology and the right government policies to help them succeed, according to a report from the Center for Public Policy Innovation (CPPI) and the Digital Dialogue Forum (DDF). The report also notes smal...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
SSL Inspector allows organizations to identify threats hidden within SSL-encrypted communications. - Fidelis Security Systems, a
specialist in network visibility, analysis and control solutions, announced a
cloud-security solution designed to provide visibility and control to decrease
risks associated with using software as a service (SaaS). The solution is
deployed at the enterprise network ed...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Google announced the launch of a new Google+ Developers page where developers can go to get and share information about developing for the Google+ platform. - Google has
launched a new Google+
Developers page to help developers stay abreast of all the latest Google+
platform news, events, community and more.
With Google+
gaining users every day up to 90 million at last count the companys social
platform becomes a much more attractive target for dev...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Apple and Google Android are battling for smartphone market superiority. Microsoft's Windows Phone can learn something from each rival. - How can
Windows Phone claim a bigger chunk of the smartphone market?
Since
Microsoft released the first iteration of Windows Phone in late 2010, pundits
and analysts of all stripes have picked over the best way to answer that
question. For Microsoft itself, of course, any answer is more than pu...
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