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Telcos and Cable are Not "Platforms"
Explore IP Carrier (May 16 2012)
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is already the most-watched net-connected TV device in the United States and soon, the w... (Read Full Article)
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Cloud will Eclipse The PC As The Hub Of Consumers' Digital Lives By 2014
Explore gartner.com (May 7 2012)
... is no single company with all-encompassing dominance. The stakes are high as large vendors such as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google try to claim multiple aspects of the personal cloud ecosystem, and as smaller ve... (Read Full Article)
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What WebRTC means to Telecoms
Explore ALAN QUAYLE (May 7 2012)
...la released a demo of WebRTC video calling that ran inside the Firefox browser * Internet Explorer: Microsoft has also started work on implementation of the API * Likely by the end of this year we'll see Chrom......app everywhere. On your PC, smartphone, tablet, TV; and they can offer chargeable services without Apple taking 30%. * As long as you're data connected, communications is in the cloud, people need only ... (Read Full Article)
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Will Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft Become Mobile Service Providers?
Explore IP Carrier (May 3 2012)
...lication suppliers, for example. Some believe the "Four Horsemen" of the Internet include Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon. Others might say the list actually is "Five Horsemen" and include Microsoft. Either way, the notion is that handful of firms have the ability, at least in principle, to creat... (Read Full Article)
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Apple, Google, Amazon Microsoft: Who Wins the Ecosystem War?
Explore Google FeedBurner (May 3 2012)
...ebook and Amazon will produce their own smart phones. Facebook might also have to produce a tablet. Apple will have to create a mobile payment service, as will Microsoft. Google and Facebook will have to get more share of the e-commerce and mobile commerce transacti... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Microsoft Google ABI Research
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Apple, Google, Amazon Microsoft: Who Wins the Ecosystem War?
Explore IP Carrier (May 3 2012)
...ebook and Amazon will produce their own smart phones. Facebook might also have to produce a tablet. Apple will have to create a mobile payment service, as will Microsoft. Google and Facebook will have to get more share of the e-commerce and mobile commerce transacti... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Microsoft Google ABI Research
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Android Hits 51% Smartphone Use, Says comScore
Explore techweekeurope.co.uk (May 2 2012)
Worrying news for Microsoft after figures revealed iOS and Android continued to grow their smartphone marketshare Android Hits ......its share in the US smartphone market, accounting for 51 percent of smartphone subscribers, while Apple captured more than 30 percent, according to data from the comScore MobiLens service, which reported...
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How Long Does Microsoft Have to Prevent Apple Dominance in Consumer Computing?
Explore IP Carrier (May 1 2012)
...o the enterprise by consumers who already had adopted the technology for home use. The problem for Microsoft, and others, is that Apple increasingly is becoming a whole ecosystem in consumer electronics related to computing. And there ... (Read Full Article)
Mentions: Microsoft Apple Amazon.com
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Apple’s inevitable path to a post-PC era
...h it is marketed along side the iPod, it is just as closely related to the Airport Express. Perhaps Apple needs to look towards Nintendo’s Wii or Microsoft’s Kinect, otherwise the AppleTV will be doomed as just an accessory to their Tabs and Pads. Take a ...
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Lowenstein's View: Is the mobile M&A binge crazy or justified?
Explore FierceWireless (Apr 26 2012)
...number of companies that really matter and are doing much of the buying is relatively concentrated: Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, Intuit, Visa, SAP, Oracle, Disney, Comcast. Many of these companies are in multiple, overlap... (Read Full Article)
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Google Drive is here, and you can install it right now
Explore Ars Technica (Apr 24 2012)
...of free storage to sync across computers, and finally giving Google a viable competitor to Dropbox, Microsoft's SkyDrive, Apple's iCloud, and the like.
Google announced the new service today and it's available at drive.google...
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Analysts debate whether carriers will cut Apple's iPhone subsidies
Explore FierceWireless (Apr 24 2012)
...iPhone outpaces competition at AT&T, Verizon and Sprint * Analysts debate whether carriers will cut Apple's iPhone subsidies * Google turns to Motorola's Webtop to battle Apple, Microsoft * Huawei's 2011 profit drops 53% despite jump in revenue * Huawei's Plummer: Our products are secur... (Read Full Article)
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Apple Profits Most from "Consumerization of IT"
Explore IP Carrier (Apr 24 2012)
Though some will disagree, you can argue that Apple now leads the consumer electronics business, not only the computing business, while Microsoft has become more of an enterprise technology supplier. Five years ago, in 2007, Microsoft reported quarterly revenue of $14.398 billion and profit of $6.589 billion. In 2012, Microsoft’s revenue was $17.4 billion, while profit was $6.374 billion. The company is still growing, but ... (Read Full Article)
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Apple, Microsoft Now in Different Customer Segments?
Explore TechCrunch (Apr 23 2012)
...he surface, an apples-to-oranges comparison, perhaps. But it points to something that has happened. Apple has completely taken over the consumer market, while most of Microsoft's growth these days comes from the enterprise side of things. Apple has destroyed Microsoft as a consumer technology company. (Read Full Article)
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Microsoft Smart Phone Market Share Keeps Falling
Explore IP Carrier (Apr 23 2012)
...usiness so far, though Samsung has made important strides. And though nobody should count them out, Microsoft, Research in Motion and Nokia are struggling. But it is in the area of smart phone profits that Apple is unusual. Profitability, more than anything else, now is shaping the global smart phone busines... (Read Full Article)
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T-Mobile to sell HTC One S for $199; RIM reportedly engaging with JPMorgan
Explore FierceWireless (Apr 19 2012)
... features to its hit mobile game Draw Something, which the company acquired last month. Article > Microsoft introduced a version of its Kinect Star Wars app to Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Article Broadband Wireless News > Mobile operators need to look at ... (Read Full Article)
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Apple to maintain tablet lead over Android
Explore reghardware (Apr 11 2012)
...t reckons some 118.9m of the things will ship this year - almost twice the number shipped in 2011.… Apple to maintain tablet lead over Android RIM, Microsoft elbow in as rivals fight By Tony Smith • Get more from this author 11th April 2012 10:08 GMT Don't ...
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Gartner Says Worldwide Media Tablets Sales to Reach 119 Million Units in 2012
Explore gartner.com (Apr 9 2012)
... percent of worldwide media tablet sales to end users in 2012 (see Table 1). Despite the arrival of Microsoft-based devices to this market, and the expected international rollout of the Kindle Fire, Apple will continue to be the market leader through the forecast period. "Despite PC vendors and phone ma... (Read Full Article)
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Google planning to brand and sell Android tablets
Explore Channel Register (Mar 30 2012)
...11, Android-based devices including Amazon's Kindle Fire had 32 per cent market share worldwide and Apple's iOS had 64 per cent with others - including HP, RIM and Microsoft - constituting the remainder, Canalys revealed. Tim Coulling, analyst at Canalys, described the eco... (Read Full Article)
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In U.S. Market, Samsung is Top Device, Android Top OS
Explore IP Carrier (Mar 6 2012)
...ts share in the smart phone operating system market, accounting for 48.6 percent of user devices. Apple undoubtedly will be found to have made the most profit, though. That has been true for some time. ......cent market share (up 1.4 percentage points). RIM ranked third with 15.2 percent share, followed by Microsoft (4.4 percent) and Symbian (1.5 percent). But profitability, more than anything else, now ... (Read Full Article)
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What Era of Computing are We In? What Comes Next?
Explore IP Carrier (Mar 3 2012)
...that is a return to the older pattern, where IBM made computers, as did DEC. In the PC era, neither Microsoft nor Intel did so. That isn't to say Apple is now the dominant firm in tomorrow's era, but simply to note that, if there are epochs within era... (Read Full Article)
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6 features that make Windows 8 a tablet contender
Microsoft debuted its Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Wednesday at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona......e system. The advantage to SkyDrive is its integration into Windows 8 and Windows Phone, similar to Apple’s iCloud in OS X and iOS. Saving documents, photos, or other personal data to a SkyDrive account ma...
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Google to Launch Line of Consumer Devices?
Explore Thoughts on Carrier Evolution (Feb 24 2012)
...ght be preparing to create and launch a whole family of consumer devices that would compete against Apple products. That obviously would raise the risk of channel conflict with Android licensees, but some ......it had the opportunity, because of the perceived risk of alienating its service provider customers. Microsoft, which also works closely with mobile service providers, made a different decision, and purchased S... (Read Full Article)
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Want to see 2012′s mobile future? Look at 2011.
... of Windows Phone. But it sets the stage in 2012 to watch and see how Nokia-built phones running on Microsoft’s mobile operating system fare in these particular regions. * Mobile activities devoted to health w......s scanned product codes in a store and 1 in 8 compared prices while shopping a physical retailer. * Apple’s iPhone still holds a minority of handset sales, but the company’s “killer app” may ...
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