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Articles tagged with: Windows Mobile and Linux
Adobe Announces Upgraded Flash Platform for Smartphones
Adobe Systems has announced a new variant of the Flash website software that it expects to be available on the majority of smartphones from early next year - excluding the Apple iPhone. more
Related Tags: adobe, flash, nokia, symbian, palm, apple-iphone, widgets, life
Android based Netbooks to Emerge in 2009
Opinion by Laurent Lachal, Ovum Open Source Research Director
Upwards 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
complex, with market segments catered for by a growing variety of low-cost
netbooks and laptops. Second, after a strong start, Linux netbooks have now been
overtaken by Windows netbooks and Linux is lagging increasingly behind in terms
of sales - although Linux's performance in the netbook segment is still
outstanding compared to its overall performance in the desktop market.
more
Related Tags: android, google, semiconductor, intel, smartphone, apple, ipod, smartphones, wind, ovum, netbooks, netbook, mobile-internet, freescale-semiconductor, asus, open-source, operating-system, windows, freescale, laptop
Nokia Smartphone Sales Fall as RIM, Apple, Samsung Take Market Share
In the fourth quarter of 2008, worldwide sales of smartphones to end users reached 38.1 million units, an increase of 3.7 per cent on the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Global sales of smartphones for 2008 reached 139.3 million devices, up 13.9 per cent compared with 2007. more
Related Tags: android, google, t-mobile, microsoft, nokia, iphone, smartphone, samsung, eu, apple, smartphones, wind, gartner, htc, rim, touchscreen, sharp, omnia, operating-system, windows, danger
InterDigital Unveils SlimChip Embedded HSPA Modules for NetBook Markets
InterDigital has unveiled its SlimChip Half-Mini PCIe module and the SlimChip MID module. These compact wireless modules, which use InterDigital's SlimChip HSPA baseband IC, are optimized to be embedded in a growing category of mobile broadband devices, such as Smartphones, Mobile Internet Devices or MIDs, and consumer electronics. more
Related Tags: android, texas-instruments, analytics, smartphone, ict, smartphones, wind, abi-research, strategy-analytics, hspa, texas, mobile-internet, windows
Motorola Expected to Announce "Google Phone" Plans this Week
The new head of Motorola's mobile phone division, Sanjay Jha has decided that the company should focus the bulk of its efforts on developing phones based on the Google backed Android system. Spurces close to the issue told The Wall Street Journal that the plans will be formally announced on Thursday and could result in thousands of job cuts. more
Related Tags: android, google, microsoft, motorola, wind, wall-street-journal, gartner, symbian, operating-system, windows, sanjay-jha
Motorola Reported to be Working on a "Google Phone"
It has been reported that Motorola is ramping up development of mobile phones based on the Google backed Android Operating System. The company is understood to have 50 staff working on Android phones and is ramping up its team to 350 people. more
Related Tags: android, google, microsoft, smartphone, motorola, qualcomm, smartphones, wind, verizon, gartner, symbian, mobile-linux, operating-system, windows
UPDATE: Google Unveils Android Smartphone for T-Mobile
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Google, Tuesday unveiled its first Android-powered smartphone for T-Mobile USA as the Internet giant hopes to shake up the wireless industry. more
Related Tags: android, google, wi-fi, t-mobile, iphone, smartphone, t-mobile-usa, apple, apple, driving, wind, open-handset-alliance, verizon-wireless, verizon, gartner, vodafone, htc, chief-technology-officer, touchscreen, mobile-internet, mobile-search, symbian, mobile-web-browser, sprint, vodafone-group, operating-system, chrome, windows
Open Source OS Assists Chinese Development of the Smart Phone Market
A report from Chinese research firm, CCID Consulting shows that the sales volume of smart phones in China's market in the first half of 2008 reached 15.671 million sets, up 32.1% over H1 2007, and the sales revenue reached 37.74 billion Yuan, up 25.7% over H1 2007. more
Related Tags: android, google, sony-ericsson, samsung, motorola, gps, wind, zte, china-mobile, td-scdma, lenovo, ericsson, sony, mobile-internet, symbian, open-source, operating-system, ccid-consulting, windows, China
Linux to Take Lion's Share of MID Market
The Mobile Internet Devices (MID) market is likely to be the first real example of a greenfield situation in which all mobile operating systems start on the same equal footing, without the baggage of previous histories such as existed in the smartphone market. The Linux OS, in the form of Moblin, LiMo and Maemo, looks ready to take the lionĂ's share of the MID market and is set to capture unit volumes of 50 millions units per annum in 2013. more
Related Tags: intel, smartphones, wind, abi-research, mobile-internet
Microsoft faces Pressure from Smartphone OS Alliances
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- With the smartphone world increasingly shifting toward an open operating system model, Microsoft and its Windows Mobile face another obstacle in trying to penetrate the consumer market. more
Related Tags: android, google, microsoft, samsung, smartphones, driving, open-handset-alliance, docomo, verizon-wireless, verizon, gartner, apple, compete, symbian, sk-telecom, open-source, operating-system, andrew, symbian-foundation