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| 7:45AM 3/30/2011
Smartphone sales are expected rise 49% this year to 450 million units, according to a new survey from electronics research firm IDC.
| 10:22AM 1/31/2011
Handsets based on Google's Android mobile operating system accounted for 32.9% of worldwide smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter, compared with Symbian's 30.6% market share, according to a new report from market researcher Canalys. Apple's iOS was a distant third, with 16%.
| 9:00AM 1/24/2011
Deutsche Bank's insightful technology analyst Jonathan Goldberg says Android has already pulled away from the pack in China. And not just in smartphones and tablets: Android is finding its way into all sorts of platforms, from laptops to set-top boxes to ATMs.
| 6:50AM 12/22/2010
Software giant Microsoft (MSFT) plans to unveil a version of its Windows operating system that runs on hand-held devices such as tablet computers.
Executives will debut the software at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Bloomberg News reported without naming its sources.
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| 6:30PM 11/02/2010
Google's already got deals to supply its Chrome operating system for Hewlett-Packard and Acer laptops. But now rumors are circulating that the company's about to come out with its own laptop, also named Chrome and made by Inventec, later this month.
| 4:55PM 10/28/2010
Microsoft's fiscal first-quarter earnings jumped 51% as the world's largest software maker boosted sales of its Office 2010 product and grabbed share in the videogame-console market. Microsoft shares jumped on the news.
| 7:00PM 10/21/2010
Microsoft says its Windows 7 operating system is the fastest-growing in history after the company sells more than 240 million licenses in the past year. According to Net Applications data, 93% of new personal computers are equipped with Windows 7.
| 3:30PM 10/13/2010
Apple Inc. will preview a new version of its Mac OS X operating system at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., next week, Barron's reported, citing an invitation from the company.
| 7:15PM 9/13/2010
Nokia's Symbian platform and Google's Android system will be racing at a dead heat in 2014, according to a Gartner report. The research firm forecasts that those systems will each have double the users of Apple's iOS operating system by then.