Articles tagged with: Os and Planning

Microsoft Reported to be Developing Mobile OS for ARM Based Smartphones

­Microsoft is reportedly planning to port its next Windows Operating System to work on chips designed by UK based ARM Holdings - whose low-power chips are used in most of the smart phones on the market. The move is a significant move for the company, which had traditionally based its main computer os on high-power chips supplied by Intel and AMD.  more

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U.S. Smartphone Battle Heats Up: Which is the "Most Desired" Operating System?

..t of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones that run full operating systems. The most popular smartphones are the Apple iPhone and RIM Blackberry, which are caught in a statistical dead heat with 27 percent of smartphone market share in t more

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IMS Research Sees Android Taking Share of the Tablet Market

..msung's Galaxy Tab tablet via mobile carriers such as AT&T in the US will quickly boost Google Android's presence in the tablet market. Even in the fixed-broadband ISP market, where the interface is typically customized to integrate the ISP more

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Majority to Use Location-Based Apps for Holiday Shopping Season

..iWire. "Consumers are demanding a wealth of location information that spreads across branding, product detail and discounts, allowing brands to build bigger campaign strategies. This is great news as we head into 2011 - unlocking big brand budg more

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Telstra CEO Criticises Apple's Walled Garden Approach

The CEO of Australian telco, Telstra has said that there are difficulties in its relationship with Apple and has critisised what he called its "walled garden" approach to mobile content and applications.  more

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iPhone Platform top for Software Developers

..iGR build applications for the Apple iPhone OS, followed by RIM BlackBerry OS, Android and Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5. This is a shift from iGR's 2009 developer study in which Windows Mobile was by far the most popular OS. Developers generall more

Related Tags: apple-iphone, android, blackberry, windows-mobile


Survey Shows Android OS Roiling the Smart Phone Market

.. roiling the smart phone market, with Motorola's new Droid smart phone the biggest and most immediate beneficiary. Among respondents who currently own a smart phone, 4% say they're using Google's Android operating system - a 3-pt jump since our  more

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Google Epects 18 Android Phones by Year-End

..preloaded links to services such as Gmail or Google Calendar. The most detailed version will be known as the "Google Experience" and in exchange for tighter experience to the Google platform, will be allowed to carry the Google logo.  more

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