Monday, November 01, 2010

Android Captures Smartphone Lead In U.S.

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Monday, November 1, 2010

HIGHLIGHTS:

TOP STORY
- Android Captures Smartphone Lead In U.S.

ALSO SEE
- First Impressions: Palm Pre 2 With WebOS 2.0

ANALYTIC REPORTS
- Remote Control: 9 Steps To Ensuring Access, Safely

WHITEPAPERS
- Multi-Site and Campus-Area Wireless LANs: Benefits of the Centralized Approach

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
- Cloud Security Market To Reach $1.5 Billion In Next Five Years

FROM INFORMATIONWEEK'S OVER THE AIR BLOG
- Microsoft Already Making Changes To Windows Phone 7

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- Where is your Data Tonight? A Lesson in Avoiding Headlines, Fines or Worse

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TODAY'S TOP STORY

- Android Captures Smartphone Lead In U.S.
According to numbers from Canalys and NPD Group, Google's Android mobile operating system grabbed a commanding 43.6% of the U.S. smartphone market in the third quarter.
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- First Impressions: Palm Pre 2 With WebOS 2.0
InformationWeek spent some time with the unreleased Palm Pre 2 running webOS 2.0. Is this the webOS sequel device for which we've been waiting?
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- Global CIO: SAP: The Top 10 Reasons We'll Beat Oracle In Applications
SAP says its strength in on-demand applications, mobility, and business analytics, plus a huge difference in philosophy, will keep it ahead of Oracle in enterprise apps.
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- Mobile Phone Sales Strong In Q3
Apple, RIM, HTC and Motorola have been unaffected by component shortages, but Nokia has struggled with supplies of AMOLED and semiconductor components for low-cost handsets, according to ABI Research.
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- NTT DoCoMo Plans $3.3 Billion LTE Investment
Two-year rollout of 4G technology will start in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, Japan.
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- MeeGo 1.1 Released To Developers
Linux-based mobile OS allows software creation on Intel Atom and ARMv7 architectures.
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- Microsoft Comping Windows Phone 7s For Employees
All 89,000 employees worldwide will get the device; no word on whether the perk will include free wireless service.
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- Carlyle Bids $6.5 Billion For Telecoms
Acquisition of CommScope and Synerverse would give the private equity firm a foothold in 4G wireless.
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ANALYTIC REPORTS
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- Remote Control: 9 Steps To Ensuring Access, Safely
Well-secured systems are well-managed systems. But as perimeters melt away, security goes beyond encryption, authentication, and monitoring. We also need to ensure privileged users aren't betraying trust. In this report, we'll cover ways to track who did what to which system, and when--vital to covering yourself in an audit, sure, but also to improving customer service and the support process for remote workers.
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WHITEPAPERS
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- Multi-Site and Campus-Area Wireless LANs: Benefits of the Centralized Approach
Be a leader, not a laggard, by implementing the 802.11n protocol. Read this Aberdeen Group report to understand how its increased throughput and range is one way enterprises can address the pressure for increased performance despite the complexities of extended WLAN coverage.
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TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
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- Cloud Security Market To Reach $1.5 Billion In Next Five Years
Enterprises pressure cloud providers to weave security into their services, new Forrester report says
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- Anti-Botnet Startup Quietly Emerges From Stealth Mode
Umbra Data offers 'Dark Side Intelligence' on botnet activity for service providers, ISPs, and enterprises
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- Free DNS Service From Comodo
Service offers three safeguards against Domain Name Server data corruption
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INFORMATIONWEEK'S OVER THE AIR BLOG
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- Microsoft Already Making Changes To Windows Phone 7
By Ed Hansberry
The new mobile platform from Microsoft is just two weeks old in Europe and still has a week to go before launching in the US. Even so, Microsoft is taking feedback from developers and is making changes both to the platform and the Marketplace application store.
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- WebOS Wrap Up
By Ed Hansberry
There has been both good news and bad news for WebOS fans this week. News has leaked that HP's Asian manufacturers are planning up to six new Palm devices which would all presumably run WebOS 2.0. Speaking of 2.0, if you like the PalmOS 5.x emulator, or MotionApps Classic, they aren't supporting WebOS beyond 1.x. Oh yeah. HP has unveiled a new logo ...
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- Browsers Preferred Over Apps For Many Tasks
By Ed Hansberry
Apple has over 300,000 apps, Google over 100,000 and after just one week, Microsoft over 1,000 in its store, yet users often prefer browsers for getting some of the most common things done on their smartphone. <br />

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WEBCASTS
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- Where is your Data Tonight? A Lesson in Avoiding Headlines, Fines or Worse
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RESOURCES AND EVENTS
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- Take Our Enterprise 2.0 Vendor Evaluation Survey -- You Could Win An iPod!
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