Year: 2011

  • Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet Boost Android Tablet Share to 40%

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s (NASDAQ:BNBN) Nook Tablet will power Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android platform to 40.3 percent media tablet market share in the fourth quarter of 2011. That’s up from up from 32.4 percent in Q3, according to IDC, which estimated the media tablet market grew 24 percent on a sequential basis… Read more

  • Microsoft Details Windows 8 Picture Password Feature

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    At September’s BUILD conference, Microsoft took an auditorium of developers on a deep dive into the upcoming Windows 8. Among the features revealed in passing was a rather unique way of safeguarding the operating system from unauthorized users: a Picture Password that required touching parts of an image in order to move past the initial… Read more

  • ATandT’s Failed T-Mobile Bid Has Opponents Rejoicing

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    AT&T (NYSE:T) and Deutsche Telekom have decided to drop plans to sell T-Mobile USA to AT&T for $39 billion. In a Dec. 19 statement released today, AT&T said that the companies have dropped their acquisition. In its statement, AT&T blamed the efforts of the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice for the… Read more

  • Enterprise Security Market to Exceed $22 Billion in 2012: Canalys

    Nathan Eddy

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    Canalys announced the results of its latest enterprise security forecasts, indicating that total investment is expected to grow 8.7 percent year-on-year in 2012 to reach a market value of $22.9 billion worldwide. Currently accounting for 11.3 percent of the total market, the antivirus (AV) segment will remain one of the strongest parts of the security… Read more

  • 1. Dominance Is A Bad Thing

    1. Dominance Is A Bad Thing

    Don Reisinger

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    1. Dominance Is A Bad Thing There’s nothing wrong with a company being successful, but when it turns into dominance, it’s an issue. Dominant companies can often times stifle innovation, hurt competition, and generally cause trouble in the marketplace. Android dominating the marketplace is slowly but surely starting to do just that. And it’s a… Read more

  • 1. Android Has That Market Wrapped Up

    1. Android Has That Market Wrapped Up

    Don Reisinger

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    1. Android Has That Market Wrapped Up Why would HP want to go up against Google’s Android platform? That operating system is open source and available to any handset maker. To add another company to the mix against the dominant force in the industry makes, well, absolutely no sense. 2. Consumers Are Just Starting to… Read more