Google’s Android platform shipped 33.3 million units, or roughly one-third of the 101.2 million smartphones shipped across the globe, Canalys said. – Google’s Android operating system became the world’s leading
smartphone platform, accounting for 33.3 million of the 101.2 million
smartphones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter 2010, according to
researcher Canalys.
Canalys, which crunched smartphone shipments across North America, Asi…
Google’s and Mozilla’s efforts to empower users to more easily opt out of online behavioral tracking by advertisers were joined in the past week’s headlines by arrests in the pro-WikiLeaks cyber-attacks. – User privacy was in the news this past week when Mozilla and Google proposed
their own answers for concerns about online behavioral tracking by advertisers.
Mozilla entered the fray Jan. 23 when
it proposed adding a quot;Do Not Track quot; HTTP header to the Firefox
browser to send a signal to …
Apple and Google Android power ahead in enterprise mobility adoption, while Windows Mobile exits the top 10. – The trend of personal smartphones infiltrating the workplace is being led by
both Apple’s iOS and Android smartphone platforms, according to Good
Technology’s second quarterly data report detailing the changing landscape of
IT and mobile enterprise technology. In the fourth quarter of 2010, this …
Apple’s App Store helped mobile application downloads soar in 2010. With Google’s Android Market pushing Apple, expect the overall pie to grow in 2011, Gartner said. – Thanks to Apple’s App Store and Google’s rougher-around-the-edges Android Market, mobile-application-store sales will top $15 billion in 2011, Gartner said Jan. 26.
The $15 billion number, up 190 percent from $5.2 billion in 2010, counts both users buying applications and applications generating ad…
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission largely blames Greenspan, Bernanke, Geithner, Summers, the rating agencies, SEC and big banks for the economic crisis. (Here’s the final report).Bernanke is still Fed chief, and the government has substantially …
A recap of security news from the past week includes a Facebook privacy controversy and arrests in the hack of AT&T last year. – Malware threats, Facebook privacy and criminal charges all made their way
into various security stories in the past week.
The week started out with another battle tied to privacy and security on
Facebook, this time stemming from the social network’s decision to allow
applications to access user…
Ministry for Kosovo State Secretary Oliver Ivanović has warned that the government in Priština was abusing the license plates issue to create a crisis. The Kosovo Albanian authorities have moved to prevent Kosovo Serbs from driving vehicles with license plates for their towns issued by the MUP.
Santa Clara, Calif., Jan. 18, 2011– Intel Corporation today announced that Erik Huggers will serve as corporate vice president and general manager of the company’s Digital Home Group and become a member of Intel’s Management Committee. Huggers is director of the BBC’s Future Media & Technology division and serves as a member of the BBC’s Executive Board. He replaces interim general manager Brad Daniels.
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Southeast Asian ministers will study ways of lowering roaming mobile phone and text messaging charges across the region starting with Singapore and Malaysia, a minister said.
The neighbors will kick off with new telecommunications rates between their countries to be announced in two months, Rais Yatim, Malaysia’s minister of information, communications and culture told reporters in Kuala Lumpur. A letter of undertaking from Malaysian companies agreeing to the new roaming charges will be presented to Singapore next week, he said.
A recap of the past week’s security news features another twist on the WikiLeaks controversy, compromised iTunes accounts being sold online and the push for a trusted identity ecosystem for the Web. – The first week of 2011 was a busy one in IT security news.
It was a week that saw an acquisition by Dell, talk of trusted online
identities and reports of a subpoena for Twitter.
The Twitter
subpoena came to light at the end of the week when it was revealed a
federal judge had ordered the micr…
Apple’s iPad will lead Android in a 2011 tablet market that should hit 24.1 million, according to Forrester Research. The note comes as the Consumer Electronics Shows gets underway. – While many expect the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show to be a big coming-out
party for the Android tablet, Forrester Research has revised its previous
conservative estimates and now expects the 2011 tablet market to be 2.5 times
what it was in 2010.
Forrester analyst Sara Rotman Epps said
Jan. 4…
Karnataka’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday took early leads in polls to the local governing councils, the winning of which is crucial for Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to stay in office. Of the 30 zila (district) panchayats, the BJP was leading in 14, the Congress in seven and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) in four [...]
A recap of IT security news for the past week includes malware targeting Android devices, the investigation into "Operation Payback" and more. – From malware targeting Google Android phones to news about the feds striking
back at quot;Operation Payback quot; attackers, the final week of 2010 was
anything but uneventful.
Researchers at Lookout Mobile Security uncovered a sophisticated
Trojan in the wild dubbed quot;Geinimi quot; going a…
In 2011, we’ll see EHRs reach the adoption phase, data centers get virtualized, stand-alone medical devices connect to EHRs and m-health take off, according to industry experts. – As we move into 2011, the
Obama administration’s meaningful-use requirements governing health care IT and
EHRs (electronic health records) will continue to influence how health care
companies adopt technology to improve patient care.
In 2010, companies began to purchase EHR applications, but …
Analytics features provide insight into which sites, search engines, and keywords lead to highest conversion rates. – Sales and marketing automation specialist LoopFuse announced the release of OneView v.3.29, which integrates the companys recently released inbound marketing and search engine marketing features with new Lead Capture Form analytics. OneView, a marketing automation platform, as well as FreeView, the …
A recap of the past week in IT security news features Microsoft patches, a hack of Gawker Media and allegations against the FBI. – It was a busy week in IT security, starting with news that Gawker Media had been compromised.
The hack on Gawker Media’s servers exposed e-mail
addresses and passwords belonging to users of Gawker Media Websites,
including Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Deadspin, and obviously Gawker.com
itself. The incid…
Google Android tablets will comprise 39 percent of the tablet market by 2012, nearing Apple’s 44 percent iPad share. The trend mirrors how Android handsets are catching the iPhone. – Apple’s iPad will command 44 percent of the total tablet
market by 2012, with tablets based on Google’s Android operating system nipping
at its heels with 39 percent, according to researchers at Piper Jaffray.
Apple that has the dominate position in 2010, selling 90
percent of the 14.5 million t…
The STI is flat at 3,175.37, with the Singapore market shrugging off the positive lead from Wall Street and continuing its recent weak tone amid mixed regional bourses; volume is low again at 277 million shares and expected to stay that way until year-end, barring any shocks from overseas.
The Hague fugitive Ratko Mladić left behind him numerous documents which link him directly to the Srebrenica war crime, states B92 show Reakcija. The show obtained a map on which Ratko Mladić drew a detailed plan of the invasion of Srebrenica in July 1995.
