Monthly Archives: February 2011
Google Android OS Boosts Worldwide Smartphone Sales: IDC Report
Google's open-source Android mobile-operating system is helping push worldwide smartphone sales to new highs, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. In the...
Android Reaching for RIM in Smartphone Market: comScore
Google's Android operating system continued to chomp at Research In Motion's BlackBerry U.S. smartphone market share stake, racking up 28.7 percent market share, according...
Sprint, Kyocera Introduce Echo, the First Dual-Screen Android Smartphone
NEW YORK - Sprint and Kyocera kicked off their joint introduction of the Kyocera Echo, the first dual-screen Android smartphone, with a performance by...
Nasdaq Hackers After Sensitive Inside Information, Not Trading System
The attackers who "repeatedly" breached Nasdaq OMX systems over the past year were most likely stealing insider information to use for financial trades, according...
IBM, Samsung Sign Patent Deal
Two giants of the patent world have come together to do a patent deal-IBM and Samsung.IBM and Samsung Electronics announced a patent cross-license agreement,...
Motorola Xoom Pricing May Push Consumers to iPad
Consumers are protesting the $799 sticker price Verizon Wireless and Best Buy and have allegedly affixed to the Motorola's Xoom tablet, and industry analysts...
Texas Instruments OMAP 5 Platform Includes ARM Cortex Processors
Semiconductor specialist Texas Instruments (TI) announced the next generation of its OMAP family, the OMAP 5 mobile applications platform, boasting two ARM Cortex-A15 MPCores...
McAfee Posts Q4 Increase as Intel Acquisition Looms
With its planned acquisition by Intel not far ahead, McAfee posted fourth-quarter 2010 revenue of $550 million.The figure represents an increase of 5 percent...
NoSQL Companies CouchOne, Membase Merge to Form Couchbase
Membase and CouchOne have joined forces to form Couchbase-a marriage in the NoSQL movement the companies hope will spawn an end-to-end family of database...
1 Billion 802.11ac WiFi Devices to Ship in 2015: In-Stat
Right now, there are no 802.11ac-enabled devices on the market. Devices withthe 802.11n wireless standard are still hitting the shelves. However, that will change...