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Symbian: Open Source |
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Feb 06, 2010 - 11:50 AM - by cybgeek
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The Symbian Foundation (The worlds most widely used smartphone platform) announced on Thursday that they have released their entire 33 million lines of code as open source under the Eclipse Public License. When the project was launched was launched last year (2009) it was only Partly Open Source.
Now that all the third party intellectual property has been removed from the code they can now distribute it and anyone can download and use it free. This is a great step for Open Source. There are a couple features that had to be removed due to intellectual property. Those being T9 predictive text input and Handwriting recognition.
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Apple Far Outpaces Other Smartphone Vendors |
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Feb 05, 2010 - 7:44 PM - by VARMA
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Apple's continued strength in smartphone sales cemented its position as the third-largest vendor in the fourth quarter of 2009, an IDC report concluded Thursday evening.
Apple reported selling 8.7 million iPhones for the fourth quarter, versus 20.8 million for Nokia and 10.7 million for Research in Motion, which represented the top three vendors. But Apple's growth far outpaced all others, with a unit sales increase of 97.7 percent.
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 54.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 39.0 percent from the same quarter a year ago. For the full year, vendors shipped a total of 174.2 million units in 2009, up 15.1 percent from the 151.4 million units in 2008.
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Samsung details aggressive smartphone plans |
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Feb 04, 2010 - 5:08 PM - by VARMA
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Samsung said it plans to triple its smartphone sales this year as part of its effort to increase its overall handset sales by 19 percent. The company also boasted that this will put it into direct competition with smartphone leaders such as Apple, HTC and Research in Motion.
The company, the world's No. 2 handset maker by unit shipments, said it will increase its smartphone sales in 2010 to around 18 million units, up from 6 million in 2009, by focusing its efforts on Google's Android platform, Microsoft's Windows Mobile and its own bada OS.
Read more: http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/...#ixzz0eaGbdRzu
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iPhone Loses Market Share to Androird |
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Feb 03, 2010 - 5:23 PM - by VARMA
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Apple may be touting the release of its iPhone OS 3.1.3 update this week, but new research shows the iPhone is actually starting to slip when it comes to smartphone market share.
The shift is no big surprise -- analysts have been expecting the iPhone to begin losing its stronghold to Android for some time now -- but this is one of the first concrete signs suggesting the trend may actually be upon us.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/18840...kes_a_hit.html
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