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Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
Some 57 percent of U.S. smartphone buyers picked an Android handset for the first time, compared with 34 percent who chose an iPhone, according to NPD Group. -
Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) is the world's top-selling
smartphone, but more first-time smartphone buyers purchased a handset based on
Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system, according to The NPD Group.
Android commanded 48 percent of the U.S. smartphone
market through the fourth quarter, c...
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Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
Microsoft, Google and Facebook should do more to protect their users' privacy online, but these types of safeguards conflict with how these technology and Web giants make their profits, according to one expert. - Privacy should
be built into online services by default, but it won't happen so long as
companies, such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook, rely on advertising to make
money, according to a prominent privacy activist.
Major
technology vendors are providing sophisticated applications in exchange ...
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Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced price reductions averaging around 12 percent for its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), effective Feb. 1, 2012. - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a reduction in price for its Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), effective Feb. 1.
In a Feb. 6 blog post, Amazon Web Service evangelist Jeff Barr announced a new series of price reductions for the S3 service, noting that AWS continues to innovate on it...
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Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
Apple's iPad and Google's Android tablets will continue to pace the slate market in 2012, with an assist from Microsoft Windows 8, said Jefferies & Co. - Tablet shipments
could top 125 million units in 2012, led by Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad and
tablets based on Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android and Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Windows 8 operating systems.
So goes the
prognostication from equity analysts at Jefferies amp; Co., which actually
shaved ...
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Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
NEWS ANALYSIS: Research In Motion and the company's ubiquitous BlackBerry devices were the enterprise's favorite product. RIM also had success providing much-needed services. But nowadays, it can't get any love. - Research In
Motion isn't what it used to be. The BlackBerry maker, less than a decade ago,
was able to solidify its position in the enterprise by delivering high-quality
products to corporate users who had yet to fully realize how important mobile
devices could be to their bottom line and corpor...
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Posted in E-Week on February 7th, 2012 by E-Week
Samsung's Galaxy Nexus features a cheaper LTE baseband chip, the better to secure rapid LTE migration throughout the world, according to a new teardown. - A new teardown of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus reveals a device
with a new, cheaper Long-Term Evolution (LTE) baseband chip and a powerful 1.2GHz processor.
“The new chip is estimated at nearly half the cost of the
prior chips $23 price tag,” read the Feb. 6 note from ABI Research
accompanying the t...
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Posted in E-Week on February 6th, 2012 by E-Week
ActiveState ships Komodo 7, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE) for Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript and Perl development. - ActiveState, a provider of software development environments for dynamic language programmers, has announced version 7 of its Komodo integrated development environment (IDE), for Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, web and cloud development.
ActiveState, which prides itself on its ability to deliv...
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Posted in E-Week on February 6th, 2012 by E-Week
As federal officials and the White House increasingly call on Congress to pass the comprehensive cyber-security bill to protect critical infrastructure, the House moves forward with its version. - Federal law enforcement
officials expect cyber-espionage, hacktivists and cyber-attacks to soon surpass
traditional terrorism as the No. 1 threat facing the United States, according
to Congressional testimony.
quot;Stopping terrorists is
the No. 1 priority, quot; Robert Mueller, director of th...
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Posted in E-Week on February 6th, 2012 by E-Week
Google is building out its high-speed broadband network in Kansas, the company confirmed. Google is also trying to test a new WiFi router. - Google
(NASDAQ:GOOG) is ready to build out its high-speed fiber network in Kansas,
paving the way for the company to build thousands of miles of cables and other
infrastructure across Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri.
The company selected Kansas City out of more than 1,100 compani...
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Posted in E-Week on February 6th, 2012 by E-Week
Microsoft's senior director of Windows Phone development Brandon Watson has left to work on Amazon's Kindle platform. How that affects Windows Phone remains to be seen. - Brandon
Watson, senior director of Windows Phone development at Microsoft, has left to
take a new job as director of Amazons Kindle Cross Platform team.
“The rumors
are true,” Watson wrote in a Twitter posting Feb. 3. “The team is in great
hands. Ill miss working on #wpdev. I will the communit...
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