Windows Mobile lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share between last year’s third quarter and this year’s third quarter, according to market researcher Gartner.
Figures released Thursday by Gartner show that Microsoft’s mobile OS had 11 percent of the global smartphone market in Q3 2008. A year later, it had 7.9 percent. Meanwhile, the iPhone’s [...]
IBM on Monday is expected to unveil Blue Insight, a massive business analytics cloud that will hold more than a petabyte of data. This internal cloud computing environment will be the basis for future external services.
Internally, IBM’s effort is dubbed Blue Insight, a business analytics cloud that will give 200,000 employees access to key corporate [...]
Microsoft reported revenue that was down 14 percent year-on-year for its first fiscal quarter, with net income down 17 percent — but it still beat analyst expectations on both counts
The figures were dragged down by deferral of revenue from sales of Windows 7 to PC manufacturers ahead of the operating system’s launch on Thursday, the [...]
The report on global trends in the ICT industry, finds the growth reflected across other poorer nations, especially India. During the first seven months of 2009, that country registered almost 100 million new wireless subscriptions.
However, urgent action is needed to improve Africa’s slow – and costly – internet access, says the United Nations Conference on [...]
Microsoft Corp launched Windows 7 on Thursday in its most important release for more than a decade, aiming to win back customers after the disappointing Vista and strengthen its grip on the PC market.
The world’s largest software company, which powers more than 90 percent of personal computers, has received good reviews for the new operating [...]
MissUpload is a new file hosting service that provides users with up to 5000 MB of storage. Users can resort to it in order to share music, photos and videos and the site actually has a rewards system whereby their online activity is redeemable for cash. That is, upon reaching 1000 unique downloads they are [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc. has pumped up its profits by laying off workers and weeding out unpopular Internet services.
Now Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s third chief executive since June 2007, has to figure out how to boost the company’s sagging Internet sales — a problem that could become easier to solve if the U.S. economy continues [...]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Apple stock rallied Tuesday a day after the maker of the iPod and iPhone reported record profits, overcoming difficult global economic conditions.
Apple shares vaulted 4.7 percent to 198.85 dollars in morning trade, near its all-time high of 202.96 dollars in December 2007.
RBC Dominion Securities analyst Mike Abramsky said Apple showed “resiliency [...]
Turns out Acer President Gianfranco Lanci wasn’t just idly boasting earlier Wednesday when he said his company would pass Dell in the PC rankings “very soon.” By very soon he clearly meant “today.”
IDC released its PC tracker report Wednesday afternoon for the third quarter of 2009 and for the very first time, Acer is indeed [...]
Comscore released the latest data on search engine market share Wednesday, and stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Google has a commanding lead. It gained 0.3 percent to up its share of search queries to 64.9 percent in September, as compared with August. As usual, Yahoo and Microsoft trailed in the second and [...]
