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- Windows 7 Market Share grows by 33.2%; Can it beat its competitors
- LG Mystery Dual Screen Phone Spotted – Headed for T-Mobile
- Facebook coming with HTML 5 based web app platform -Project Spartan
- Espoo will launch first Windows Phone 7 in six European countries, Finland not among them
| Windows 7 Market Share grows by 33.2%; Can it beat its competitors Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:40 AM PDT Windows 7 Market Share grows by 33.2%; Can it beat its competitors is a post from: Tech Mania.Check out more of the latest news by Subscribing to feed According to reports from Satacounter, Windows 7 has grown by 33.22 percent in terms of market share for the Month of May. This means that Windows 7 has acquired more than one third of the PC market since its release in 2009.In terms of its monthly trend, Windows 7 grew at the rate of one percent every month. At this steady pace, Windows 7 is set to overtake its predecessors including Windows XP and Windows Vista. It has currently increased in market dominance over Windows XP in the US, however experts predict that it will still take some time for Windows 7 to increase its market dominance globally. With the phasing out of support for Windows XP in the next few years Windows 7 will be the main platform for a majority of Windows OS users.
The Statcounter report also states that Microsoft has gained more than 350 million licenses since the launch of Windows 7. Most of the licenses have been launched for home based Windows 7 operating systems than business operating systems. Another citing of the report has indicated that Windows 7 still remains the third most popular OS in the market. In comparison to Mac OS X, Windows 7 seems to be doing better as the sales of Mac OS X has only declined marginally.So are you one of the Windows 7 user ? Related Posts : |
| LG Mystery Dual Screen Phone Spotted – Headed for T-Mobile Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:26 AM PDT LG Mystery Dual Screen Phone Spotted – Headed for T-Mobile is a post from: Tech Mania.Check out more of the latest news by Subscribing to feed A dual screen slider Android phone has been spotted in the wild.The yet to be named T-Mobile-bound Android OS-based LG phone looks like a standard smartphone until you slide out the QWERTY keyboard. You will find a second touchscreen and that too right in the middle of the keypad. The unnamed phone most likely would be the continuation of the FLIP series but yet to be confirmed.When i saw this it reminded me of the old Nokia N gage gaming phone Pocket-lint spotted this mystery lg handsed in an event which was organised by Orange and Kineto Wireless in London. The device appeared with a large capacitive touchscreen and a second capacitive touchscreen in the middle of the QWERTY keyboard. The second touchscreen allows you to use 8 dedicated shortcuts, with two of them customizable and the rest coming with default settings.
The model has its resemblance with the LG Quantum/LG Optimus 7Q around the front speaker, and the four touch controls under the screen as we have seen in the LG Optimus 2X and Optimus Black.The camera is on the rear and comes with LED support, but there are no markings to indicate what MP it might pack in. Usually, LG labels their cameras, so we are guessing this isn't final hardware and the model may just be a prototype or something.Until then check out the pics or head over to Pocket-lint for more.
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| Facebook coming with HTML 5 based web app platform -Project Spartan Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:07 AM PDT Facebook coming with HTML 5 based web app platform -Project Spartan is a post from: Tech Mania.Check out more of the latest news by Subscribing to feed Facebook is planning to come up with a HTML 5 based web app platform which is codenames as Project Spartan reports from TechCrunch so that it can take on Apple in the mobile app market.The project will be entirely web-based, which allows Facebook to avoid handing over any control to Apple. Facebook may be great at social, and social gaming, but if it really is planning this, it doesn't yet have a good grasp on what mobile users are looking for.Correct me if I am wrong. We already know Apple's App Store is a huge success, and it's ironic that the introduction of native apps came largely at the behest of iPhone owners, who were dissatisfied with the company's initial policy of only allowing third-party software on the platform via web apps. Web technology has made great strides since then, and HTML5 makes it possible to recreate rich-media effects without resorting to Flash, which is too resource-hungry for most current-gen mobile devices, and is barred from iOS devices. But despite advances, web apps have yet to prove themselves as a viable alternative to local native software. The Chrome Web Store, for example, powered by Google, hasn't shown any signs of real success, and in fact, some have suggested it's quite the opposite, including developers actually selling in the store.
Facebook does bring a built-in audience of 700 million users to the table, so it has that going for it. And a decent chunk of those users partake in social gaming from developers like Zynga, the makers of FarmVille, Mafia Wars, on Facebook's desktop web platform. But Farmville, and many other social games that use in-game currency to make most of their money, have already found a profitable route to mobile thanks to Apple's App Store. A Facebook offering might immediately appeal to some of these developers (the social network allegedly has 80 involved in the initial Project Spartan launch), but to prove a viable alternative in the long run, Facebook will have to either offer a better value proposition to devs (by giving them a bigger cut) or show that developers can reach more users than they do with native offerings.
Facebook web apps will apparently carry a "Facebook wrapper" with basic Facebook functions and access to Credits, Facebook's virtual currency, but it won't change the fact that it's a web page you're looking at. To mobile users who have embraced the app store model, this will likely feel too much like backsliding. Apple may not understand the social web, as undertakings like Ping demonstrate, but it did seem to acknowledge that by partnering with a company that does when it introduced Twitter integration in iOS 5. Facebook, on the other hand, seems to have a blind side when it comes to monetizing mobile users, and Project Spartan is just another sign that it isn't going to "get it" any time soon. Related Posts : |
| Espoo will launch first Windows Phone 7 in six European countries, Finland not among them Posted: 17 Jun 2011 05:45 AM PDT Espoo will launch first Windows Phone 7 in six European countries, Finland not among them is a post from: Tech Mania.Check out more of the latest news by Subscribing to feed According to reports, Nokia is planning to launch first of the Windows Phone 7 devices in six European countries.Nokia vice president Victor Saeijs revealed the six launch markets in an interview with dutch website All About Phones . Nokia plans to launch first in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and the Netherlands. Engadget notes that Finland, Nokia's home nation, is excluded from the initial launch plans. Nokia is aiming to launch its own Windows Phone Mango devices later this year. Nokia's Windows Phone devices are currently labeled with "W" (for Windows). The first handset is expected to be a variant of Nokia's X7 device. The prototype is equipped with a WVGA display, Qualcomm QSD8250 chipset and 8MP camera. Nokia is also rumored to be launching a dual-core N8 variant with a 12MP camera, QWERTY touchscreen candy bar phone and a cheaper touchscreen device with less expensive body. Research analysts IDC and Gartner have both predicted that Microsoft's Windows Phone devices will beat iPhone sales by 2015. Nokia's Windows Phone launch will be viewed as an initial test of Windows Phone sales estimates. Concerns for Nokia as a company grew last month after the firm revealed its second quarter outlook isn't great. The phone maker downgraded its own outlook and expects device and services net sales to be "substantially below" its previous estimates. The revelations saw the company's stock price drop by 15% on the NYSE.
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has previously teased his own Nokia Windows Phone device during an interview at D9. The former Microsoft worker showed off a Nokia prototype Windows Phone device briefly. Elop refused to show it fully but claims he regularly carries a Windows Phone device running on Nokia hardware. Elop said the company is on track for a fourth quarter release of Windows Phone devices. Knowing Nokia, there’s no doubt that once the WP7 handsets are ready they’ll find themselves swiftly available worldwide, but if you care to be among the very first to own one, you’ll be wanting to visit Europe’s western shores — preferably some time before the year’s through, as Mr. Saeijs also reaffirmed that there will indeed be a Nokia Windows Phone coming out in 2011. Source : All About Phones Related Posts : |
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