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Tuesday 30 November 2010
Android to take top spot in 2011, says Digitimes Research
Symbian will be the top ranked smartphone operating system (OS) in 2010 but its market share is expected to decline to 35.5%. Android will rise to second place from fifth in 2009...
Wednesday 10 November 2010
Commentary: End of Symbian Foundation is a blessing in disguise
With the Symbian operating system (OS) transforming from a closed platform to an open platform developed by a dozen players, and now once again back under the control of Nokia, it...
Wednesday 3 November 2010
HTC WP7 smartphones selling well in Europe, Australia, say Taiwan makers
HTC is seeing better than expected sales for its Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphones in Europe and Australia, with the HD7 introduced by O2 in Germany and 7 Mozart by Telestra...
Tuesday 2 November 2010
Vendors to debut Chrome-featured smartbooks later in November
Global brand vendors are expected to launch their new generation smartbooks featuring the Google Chrome operating system (OS) later this month (November), while Google also plans...
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Engineer samples of Android 3.0-loaded tablet PCs to be ready in December
Google has recently notified its partners that the Android 3.0 operating system (OS) will soon be completed with the related tablet PC engineer samples set to show up in December,...
Tuesday 19 October 2010
First-tier PC vendors unlikely to mass ship tablet PCs this year
With most first-tier PC vendors lacking a content supply platform and support from telecom carriers, and with Google's Honeycomb operating system (Android 3.5) not likely to be released...
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Android becomes smartphone market's secret sauce for success in 2Q10, says iSuppli
In a sign of the growing momentum behind Google's Android, makers of handsets utilizing the operating system represented the majority of the fastest-growing firms among the top 10...
Friday 8 October 2010
Dell likely to be first vendor to launch Ubuntu Light netbooks, say notebook makers
Canonical on October 7 announced its latest Ubuntu 10.10 operating system and Ubuntu Light for netbooks, and noted that consumers should be able to see Ubuntu Light-featured netbooks...
Thursday 7 October 2010
Dual-OS to become a standard for Acer dual-core netbooks
Acer, at its new netbook launch press conference, noted that the company plans to adopt dual-operating systems (Windows 7 and Android) as one of the standard specifications for its...
Thursday 9 September 2010
Worldwide smartphone market projections raised 10% for 2010, says IDC
The worldwide market for smartphones is expected to grow 55.4% this year compared to 2009 amid greater-than-expected demand for the devices. This is 10% higher than the previous forecast...
Wednesday 8 September 2010
Taiwan market: FET receives exclusive rights to distribute entry-level Google smartphone
Far Eastone Telecommunications (FET) will exclusively distribute in Taiwan a smartphone endorsed with the Google logo at the end of September at the earliest. The new handset, based...
Thursday 1 April 2010
Taiwan market: Asustek cuts Windows 7-based netbook prices
Asustek Computer has recently dropped its Eee PC 1001HA with Windows 7 to NT$9,999 (US$314) in the Taiwan market and the company has also reduced the price of its dual-core Intel...
Thursday 25 March 2010
OS battleground expands from handsets to mobile devices, says iSuppli
The battle for mobile operating system (OS) dominance is spreading beyond the smartphone arena and into other mobile and consumer devices, forcing developers to create applications...
Thursday 28 January 2010
Android to be number-2 mobile OS by 2013, says IDC
By 2013, worldwide shipments of smartphones will surpass 390 million units, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.9% for the 2009-2013 forecast period, and Andriod...
Monday 25 January 2010
Operating system software revenues soar 35% in 2009, says NPD
Operating system boxed software revenues in the US increased 35% in 2009, but it was not enough to bring overall non-game software revenues into positive territory, according to NP...