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Apple’s iPhone dominated the US, global smartphone markets in Q4: report

Pankaj Lakhotia — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:31:01 +0000

Apple's iPhone dominated the US as well as worldwide smartphone markets during the three months to December, a fresh report by NPD and IDC revealed.

Apple sold a record 37 million iPhones during the last quarter of 2011. Released figures show that Apple grabbed 23.5 per cent of the worldwide smartphone market during the three months through December, up from 15.9 per cent in the corresponding period of the previous year.

Google’s new “Solve for X” project dedicated to tackling world’s biggest problems

Pankaj Lakhotia — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:13:31 +0000

Internet search giant’s attempts to design a website which would serve as a communication channel for "moonshot thinking" have taken the form of its newly-unveiled project called "Solve for X" --- a dedicated website aimed at encouraging problem-solving and teamwork for finding “radical” solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems.

European regulatory group asks Google to delay its privacy policy consolidation

Rupinder Khatra — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:00:35 +0000

In its Thursday letter addressed to Google CEO Larry Page, a European regulatory group - the Article 29 Working Party – has sought the postponement of the Internet search giant’s planned move in the direction of privacy policy consolidation.

Microsoft loses key Windows Phone employee to Amazon

Pankaj Lakhotia — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:57:25 +0000

In a development first reported by ZDNet, one of Microsoft’s key Windows Phone employees, Brandon Watson, has quit the software giant to join the online retail biggie Amazon, where he would work on Kindle apps.

Anonymous hackers sneak onto conference call between FBI and foreign law-enforcement agencies

Rupinder Khatra — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:54:13 +0000

On Friday, computer hacking group Anonymous said in a notably haughty announcement that it had eavesdropped on a conference call – concerning how to tackle the cyber-pirate group - between the FBI, Scotland Yard and other overseas law-enforcement agencies, including those in Ireland, Germany, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands.