November 10 2008 - 12:57 pm EDT | Phil Carson | RCR Wireless News
Apple Inc.’s 3G iPhone was the top-selling handset in the United States in the third quarter, according to new data from NPD Group.
The long reign of Motorola Inc.’s Razr handset — three straight years, or 12 consecutive quarters — is over. The Razr, in all its myriad models, slipped to the No. 2 position.
Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry Curve garnered the No. 3 spot, followed by LG Electronic Co. Ltd.’s Rumor and Env2.
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Wang Jun on October 28th, 2008
By Ken Camp -
I'm very interested in the evolution of what we're now calling cloud-based computing. When I track my own evolution through networking technologies, with a slant toward telecommunications, I can't help but make a strong comparison to hosted services. We've seen hosted Centrex evolve to hosted VoIP solutions. Now we're seeing the beginnings of hosted enterprise business applications moving more and more toward Communications Enhanced Business Processes (CEBP). I'd argue Salesforce.com is a strong example of that.
With phenomenal growth of Amazon's S3 services and Google's massive distributed computing engine, cloud-based computing services are ...
October 27, 2008 — 10:02pm ET | By Jason Ankeny
Google's Android Market hasn't been open a full week, but already some application download patterns are suggesting how the OS will compare--and contrast--with Apple's rival App Store. In its first 24 hours of business, Android Market (which went live in tandem with the commercial release of T-Mobile USA's G1, the first Android-based device) offered consumers their choice of 62 applications, roughly 10 percent the number available when the App Store launched; according to data released by mobile ad firm Medialets, the average app tallied more than 7,800 downloads on ...
Cisco's latest acquisition is Jabber, a leading developer of enterprise-grade presence-enablement capabilities. Jabber's offerings include its Extensible Communications Platform, JabberNow (an enterprise instant messaging appliance), and instant messaging clients (a thick client for Windows, a browser-based client and mobile clients). Jabber has, for years, been a leading proponent of the XMPP protocol for presence-enabled applications.
Jabber is the latest in a series of strategic acquisitions by Cisco, including PostPath (an alternative to Microsoft Exchange that permits the use of Microsoft Outlook without a plug-in), IronPort (messaging and Web security) and WebEx (online collaboration), among many ...
T-Mobile USA’s Android phone, branded as the G1 and priced at $179, as expected will have several tightly integrated Google applications, including Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube, but also will come with access to Amazon’s music store.
The much-anticipated handset, unveiled officially at a New York City press event that featured Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, will go on sale Oct. 22. Current T-Mobile USA subscribers also can pre-order the phone, which will be sold as a locked device. The quad-band G1, which also has Wi-Fi, will go on sale in the United Kingdom in November and the ...
While IE 8 is playing catch-up, Google released its open source browser Chrome http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html.
Chrome means Chromium or a chromium alloy. in Chinese it's "铬".
