Articles tagged with: Os and Windows

Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down 6% - Smartphones Up 27% in Q2

..th in emerging markets and be well-positioned to take advantage of China's 3G rollout as it can deliver good-value-for-money devices. Motorola's sales of 15.9 million units were slightly better than expected, but its presence has rapidly con more

Smartphone capability tracker: what's hot and what's not

..t these technologies are now key features across nearly all smartphones, not just high-end models. Some operators still have a reluctance to admit WiFi-equipped handsets onto their networks, but Ovum believes consumers now expect WiFi to be p more

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AdMob Sees Rising Apple Device Traffic from Western Europe/Asia

Mobile advertising agency, AdMob has reported that while North America leads with 58 percent of iPhone and iPod touch users, Western Europe and Asia have increasingly become popular geographic regions, representing 26 and seven percent of Apple device users, respectively. The worldwide ratio of iPhone to iPod touch users in the AdMob network was roughly two to one in June; although this varied from region to region, this ratio has remained relatively constant over the last several months, implying a similar growth rate for both devices worldwide. more

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Can Google's Chrome OS Challenge Windows in the Fast-Growing Netbook Market?

Google's new Chrome Operating System (os) represents a direct challenge to Microsoft's hegemony in the burgeoning market for netbook software, according to iSuppli. Google's Chrome os will launch in the second half of 2010 and will initially target netbook PCs. However, the os will not only run on netbooks based on Intel's X86 architecture microprocessors, but also those using ARM-based chips, clearly showing the operating system is targeted at very low-cost netbooks. more

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Samsung Shows Off Omnia Smartphone Family

.., as well as the Microsoft Office Suite. Users also have access to a PC-like Internet browsing experience with Opera 9.5 and fast data transmission thanks to HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity features. At play, users can capture their favorite momen more

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Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market

..d mobile operators focusing on two types of handset: those targeting the low-end and high-end segments. The end result is a quickening of the replacement of 2G in favour of high-end 3G handsets, and greater volumes of smartphones. Ovum expects more

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DoCoMo and Telefonica to Introduce Windows Mobile Handset by Toshiba

..oMo and Spain's Telef�nica have jointly announced that a Windows Mobile handset model made by Toshiba will be introduced by both companies in their respective Japanese and Spanish markets in June to July as part of a plan for various joint unde more

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Mobile Application Store Users to Quadruple in Five Years

..ownloading more applications. Reach for marketing applications is growing rapidly and those applications can provide prolonged engagement with the user and keep the advertiser's brand in focus." Recent research by In-Stat found the follow more

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Smartphone Market Share Increased Rapidly Worldwide According to AdMob

..n Verizon with 14 percent of requests.Symbian lost market share, but is still number one worldwide with 43 percent of requests. The top 10 Symbian devices have not changed in the past six months.The Samsung BlackJack II is the top W more

Android based Netbooks to Emerge in 2009

..y Laurent Lachal, Ovum Open Source Research DirectorUpwards view: Linux is losing ground The upwards view of netbooks starts with netbooks and looks up to laptops. It leads to two conclusions. First, the laptop market is becoming increasingly co more