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Frankie70 writes:
Overall, IDC says Windows Phone and Windows Mobile devices accounted for six percent of the 227 million smartphones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2012. For the year, Windows Phone made up 2.6 percent, however, the analyst firm is predicting Windows Phone to be the fastest growing platform between now to 2016 with a compound annual growth rate of 71.3 percent. IDC expects Windows Phone to account for 11.4 percent of smartphone shipments by 2016, largely off the back of declining Android market share.
Windows Phone handsets have outsold the iPhone in seven markets including India, analyst firm IDC has revealed, and beat out BlackBerry in 26. Some of the countries where Windows Phone pipped the iOS handset in Q4 2012 were Argentina, India, Poland, Russia, South Africa and the Ukraine.
41698753
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Frankie70 writes:
A school which gave out iPads to every pupil in hope of improving their education has admitted that just a year later half the costly devices have been broken.
Honywood Community Science School dished out iPad2 tablets to its 1,200 pupils a year ago, at vast cost to the taxpayer.
Apple, the manufacturer of iPads, is said to be aggressively targeting the school market and at the time headteachers were accused of ‘falling for a gimmick’.
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Frankie70 writes:
Siri’s dirty little secret is that she’s a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per-gallon Hummer H1.
A study by Arieso shows that users of the iPhone 4S demand three times as much data as iPhone 3G users and twice as much as iPhone 4 users, who were identified as the most demanding in the 2010 study.
In all, Arieso says that the Siri-equipped iPhone 4S “appears to unleash data consumption behaviors that have no precedent.”
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Frankie70 writes:
Willow TV owns some of the rights to broadcast cricket in the USA. Several unethical websites resold the willow stream and charged money from the customers. Willow has got hold of the customer's email ids and have sent them the following email which essentially says that we know you purchased a pirated stream and that we will not sue you if you subscribe to our services for 1 year. The immigrants from the sub-continent, England, Australia etc form a market for cricket broadcasting services in the USA.
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Frankie70 writes:
A 12-year-old boy got a shock when he tried out the new iPhone 4S in a shop it answered: 'Shut the f*** up, ugly t***.'
Charlie Le Quesne had been trying out the new gadget's Siri voice assistant system in a Tesco branch in Coventry when it came out with the string of profanities.
The obscene response came after he had asked the phone: 'How many people are there in the world.'
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Frankie70 writes:
A few hours ago, hacking collective Anonymous disclosed that not only has it hacked the Stratfor website (since confirmed by Friedman himself), but has also obtained the full client list of over 4000 individuals and corporations, including their credit cards (which supposedly have been used to make $1 million in "donations"), as well as over 200 GB of email correspondence.
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Frankie70 writes:
Starting Sunday, December 11th at 6:00 p.m. Central time, 16GB and 32GB Touchpads will be available on HP's ebay store. A $79 accessory bundle will also be available, which includes a case, charging dock and wireless keyboard. The caveat with this deal is that these are refurbished TouchPads rather than the brand new models sold during the first firesale.
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Frankie70 writes:
It took more than three years, but Microsoft has finally learned to stop worrying and love Hadoop. Microsoft acquired a Hadoop pioneer as far back as the summer of 2008, its relationship with the platform has been uneasy at best, as the company continued to shed its traditional aversions to open source software. Any aversion to Hadoop disappeared on Wednesday, when the company announced that it will integrate the platform with future versions of its relational database, SQL Server, and its platform cloud, Windows Azure, an online service for hosting and readily scaling applications. The company is now working to port the Hadoop platform to Windows
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Frankie70 writes:
Slideshare has ditched Adobe Flash technology entirely, and rebuilt its website using the HTML5 markup language. This means that SlideShare is now viewable on every kind of mobile device, from iPads to iPhones to Android devices and beyond.
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Frankie70 writes:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings just dropped a bombshell. In the wake of a rapid decline in Netflix’s stock price last week, Hastings is taking a bold step by separating the DVD and video streaming services. The DVD-by-mail service will now be called Qwikster, and the streaming service will maintain the Netflix brand.
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Frankie70 writes:
From the article "The Twitter account of the American Fox News Politics team was compromised and used to falsely announce the death of the US president.
Hackers, who identified themselves as "The Script Kiddies" and said they shared the spirit of prominent hacking group Anonymous, used the account to write: “BREAKING NEWS: President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP”. "
This is a link to the Twitter Account — http://twitter.com/#!/foxnewspolitics -
20057004
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Frankie70 writes:
"Tanveer singh posted his travelogue and pictures in an Indian automobile forum Team-BHP. An Indian Car and Bike magazine Overdrive printed his whole travelogue and pictures in the print issue of their magazine without his permission. Not just that, they also got the story sponsored by Goodyear & modified his writeup to say that he did the trip on Goodyear tyres."
20049098
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Frankie70 writes:
Tanveer singh posted his travelogue and pictures in an Indian automobile forum Team-BHP. An Indian Car and Bike magazine Overdrive printed his whole travelogue and pictures in the print issue of their magazine without his permission. Not just that, they also got the story sponsored by Goodyear & modified his writeup to say that he did the trip on Goodyear tyres.
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Frankie70 writes:
Matt Ridley writes about Angry Birds, an iPhone game which has sold more than 12 million copies. The spectacular trajectory of the Angry Birds computer game, from obscure Finnish iPhone app to global ubiquity — there are board games, maybe even movies in the works — is probably inexplicable. Ridley wonders if there is an evolutionary aspect to its allure. There is something much more satisfactory about an object tracing a parabolic ballistic trajectory through space towards its target than either following a straight line or propelling itself.
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Frankie70 writes:
Spain last night killed a controversial anti-P2P bill that would have made it easier to shut down websites that link to infringing content. Wikileaks exposed the pressure from the United States to push through the highly controversial law in Spain. It seems that the exposure of the pressure from the US may have backfired somewhat because the provision in the Sustainable Economy Act that would mandate ISPs to block websites should they get a call from the Culture Ministry has been voted down
