The race for the lead in U.S. smartphone operating system (OS) consumer market share is tighter than it has ever been. According to November data from The Nielsen Company, the popularity of the Android OS among those who purchased a smartphone in the last six months (40%) makes it the leading OS among recent acquirers.
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Apple Holds Smartphone Lead, But Android Is Gaining
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While Android surges among new smartphone buyers, Apple iOS continues to hold on to the overall marketshare lead, though still within spitting distance of a fading BlackBerry OS and a hard-charging Android OS, according to the latest figures from the Nielsen Company.
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Ed Oswald
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Betanews
Tablets look to steal the show at CES and beyond
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By Ed Oswald , Betanews Could 2011 be the year of the tablet? It sure seems that way -- as many as 100 companies may release tablet computers in 2011, say analysts. This week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will be the debut of several of these devices, all hoping to at least compete with the juggernaut that Apple's iPad has become. ...
Dondodge.typepad.com
2011 The Year Of Android vs iPhone - who wins?
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Prediction season has started early this year. Fortune, Techcrunch, Scoble, Louis Gray, and others are already picking winners in the Smartphone market, which most see as a two horse race between iPhone and Android. My prediction? Both will win because they are playing different games. Android will win the market share battle, but Apple will ...
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Goldman Sachs has reached out to its wealthy private clients, offering them a chance to invest in Facebook, the hot social networking giant that is considering a possible public offering in 2012, according to people familiar with the matter.
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What does Goldman's investment in Facebook mean?
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Facebook has raised $500 million in new "venture capital" at a $50 billion valuation, according to a report late last night from DealBook. Not sure if the $50 billion is a pre-money or post-money mark, but I'm also not sure if such niggling details matter at such a nose-bleedingly high stratosphere.
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Broadband users have long been skeptical of the duopoly situation in the US Internet market, which often feels like “pick your poison”: telephone company or cable company. "Where's the real competition?" they cry, pointing to other countries with healthy ISP markets thanks to regulated line-sharing or even direct government control ...
 
Erick Schonfeld
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TechCrunch
While plenty of people predicted that the iPad would kill the Kindle when it first came out ( including us ), that turned out to be wrong. Very wrong. The Kindle went on to become the best selling product in Amazon's history over the holidays, selling an estimated 8 million units last year. The Kindle is a very different device which appeals to ...
I. Sandy Bridge Naming -- Lots of Names, Lots of Confusion
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Austin Ventures has worked with talented entrepreneurs to build valuable companies for nearly twenty-five years. With $3.9 billion under management, AV is the most active venture capital and growth equity firm in Texas. With an investment focus on business services and supply chain, financial services, media and information services, software and ...
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The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Little Fockers’ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘TRON: Legacy’. ‘Death Race 2′ completes the top three.
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Leena Rao
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TechCrunch
BitTorrent Hits 100M Active Monthly Users, 400K Client Downloads Per Day
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BitTorrent seems to be growing like a weed - the company just announced that it's hit 100 million monthly users of its software, the BitTorrent Mainline client and µTorrent . That's up from 80 million monthly users most recently. The company also revealed that it has over 20 million daily active users, over 400,000 daily client downloads, and ...
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Japan’s Sony Corp said that China’s move to reduce export quotas for rare earths was a barrier to free trade and that it would work to reduce its confidence on the minerals critical to producing high-tech goods.
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FotoSketcher 2 is here, and a lot has changed since Erez first wrote about the photo stylizing app. For starters, there are new filters like sepia, vignette and "old photo texture," and four new frame effects have also been added. FotoSketcher 2 now even offers real-time brushstroke previews.
A Microsoft Kinect hack lets World of Warcraft players cast spells, fight opponents and maneuver their characters using simple hand gestures and body movements.
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Fast Company
Dishes are approved by the Dear Leader but guaranteed not to make you Il. By expanding into Dubai and Amsterdam, the NK government's eateries are providing an alternative to arms sales in raising foreign capital. Food not bombs, indeed! A chain of restaurants affiliated with the North Korean government recently opened a Dubai branch. Visitors to ...
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As we noted last week, DirecTV has been informing customers that rate hikes are on the docket for 2011, though the actual hikes weren't disclosed initially. Several users have since sent in this sheet outlining all of the price increases, (pdf) which notes that the price hikes take effect February 10. According to the company, most packages are ...
I liked Flyde from the moment I laid eyes on it. It reminded me of an anciet DOS game I used to play as a kid, where you had to race around in 3D and jump platforms while the level rushes by. [I totally played that game too -- anyone remember the name?! -Ed
An SEC filing indicates that wireless sector pioneer Craig McCaw has resigned as chairman of Clearwire. The move raises obvious questions concerning the company's health, though Clearwire insists the move does not involve "any disagreements with the company on any matters relating to its operations, policies, or practices." As Clearwire tries to ...
Sinclair and Time Warner Cable avoided a New Year's Eve programming blackout, and have extended negotiations another two weeks. The dispute threatened to impact dozens of channels in nearly as many markets, including affiliates of NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox. Time Warner Cable had promised to offer local affiliates from other cities if the two sides ...
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Fast Company
With a new year dawning, you may be asking yourself, "How can I succeed? What can a company do to innovate?" Here are 10 ways to find yourself reimagining your work and changing your business for the better. 1. DO SOMETHING NEW FOR THE FIRST TIME Original thinking, disruptive concepts, and new-to-world products demand both inventive and ...
Samsung Supplies World’s First Commercially Available 4G Multi-Mode Handset and Las Vegas LTE Infrastructure for MetroPCS DALLAS– September 21, 2010 - Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. . 1 mobile phone provider in the U.S. 1 and MetroPCS Communications, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of unlimited, ...
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A bug hits French mobile phone customers, prompting some to send dozens of unintended new year messages.
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