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Android Holds 43.7% of U.S. Smartphone Market
Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system commanded 43.7 percent of U.S. market share through August, gaining almost 2 percentage points from comScore’s last count of 41.8 percent in July, according to the researcher. Android sales could get a boost in the U.S. from sales of the new Samsung Galaxy S II Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" smartphones on…
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Steve Jobs Changed How We Use Mobile Technology
It’s hard to overestimate the effect that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, whose death was announced Oct. 5, had on the technology industry as a whole. His company’s innovations in tablets and smartphones kicked off the current rush toward mobility that will almost certainly define the space for years to come. Apple’s Website now opens…
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Mobile Cyber-Attacks to Double By End of 2011
Mobile threats have exploded this year, and researchers believe the number of mobile device exploits will double by the end of the year, according to the latest IBM report. The number of known mobile operating system vulnerabilities will increase only incrementally from 2010 to 2011, but the number of exploits based on those flaws is…
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Microsoft and Yahoo: Will They or Won’t They?
Microsoft has no plans to acquire Yahoo, according to a new Bloomberg report. Bloomberg drew its news from two people familiar with the matter, who refuted an earlier report from Reuters that the software giant was seriously considering a bid for the Web-portal company. That Reuters report suggested that Yahoo’s market value stands at $18…
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Thank You, Steve Jobs
It wasn’t John Lennon or Michael Jackson they were remembering on TV this morning. It wasn’t John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan or Princess Diana. No, this time the lost icon was none other than Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who in his lifetime achieved the kind of status that only a handful of humans…