In the overall US phone market Samsung is on top, with Apple standing fourth, behind LG and Motorola
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Dell Survey Shows Cloud Business Application Adoption Rising Among SMBs
Low total cost of ownership and fast deployment time are shown to be key benefits of Cloud adoption for smaller businesses
Jive Takes On Salesforce With Social CRM Software
Jive Software is squaring up to Salesforce.com after launching its own social CRM software product
NAO Slams Government Use Of Complex And Expensive ERP Software
Report reveals government's shared services drive as inefficient and loss-making
Facebook Suffers Outage In Parts Of Europe And Asia
Early morning downtime reported by users across several countries
Toshiba’s Secure, Energy-Efficient Laptops Tap IBM Software
At the IBM Pulse 2012 conference, Toshiba announced Tivoli endpoint management is embedded in its latest business PCs
IBM’s Watson Heads To Wall Street With Citigroup
IBM's Watson is heading to Wall Street following an agreement between IBM and Citigroup's banking operations
Apple Devices Beat Android On HTML5 Performance
Apple's iOS devices perform far better than Google's Android at rendering HTML5 objects, according to a new study
MapR Hadoop Inks Informatica Tie-In
The MapR Hadoop open source batch analytics software package will become available with Informatica's data integration platform through four different vendors
MIT Offers Android App Inventor Beta
MIT has made available a beta of its App Inventor tool that allows for the easy creation of Android apps
Libel And The Social Media Is A Corporate Issue
On the Internet, everybody can hear you scream - or belch or break wind - because nothing is erased, not even libelous comments, says Eric Doyle
Canonical Releases ‘Precise Pangolin’ Beta
Ubuntu 12.04 is the first long-term release to use the Unity desktop, and includes power-saving and hardware support tweaks
Content Carries No Legal Liability For Hosts Of Social Media Sites
Google's Blogger site has been likened to a wall of graffiti in a landmark decision that it cannot be sued for malicious content
ASA Sides With Vodafone And Apple Over Siri’s Lack Of UK Help
The ad watchdog has decided that weather details constitute sufficient support for location-based services
Gnip And DataSift Begin Selling Archived And Analysed Tweets
Two research companies, partnered with Twitter, launch archived public data Tweet packages for sale to marketeers
Cray Makes Big Data Move With Analytics Appliance
Cray is aiming to assist companies dealing with 'big data' analytics with the launch of its new graph appliance
Microsoft Windows Server 8 Beta Made Available For Testing
Windows Server 8 beta has been released to IT departments for testing and to gain feedback on refining the final release
Mozilla Launches Collusion Data Tracking Firefox Add-On
New tool aims to help users see who is tracking their web activity and to better understand tracking
Chrome Browser’s Market Share Inflated By Pre-Rendering
Google's Chrome Web browser remained at 18.9 percent share for February as Net Applications adjusted to allow for pre-rendering
Facebook Timeline Makeover For Pages Offers Better Ad Canvas
Facebook's Timeline user interface has been applied to its Pages promotional palettes for organisations and brands
IntraLinks Offers Secure Intra-Company Mobile Collaboration Environment
IntraLinks Connect secures and audits access to files stored in its Cloud for remote access by any device, with the prospect of Olympic gains
Facebook Announces Premium Advertising Tools
Brands given Timeline-formatted pages, mobile ads and Reach Generator in pre-IPO effort to raise revenue
Google Pushes Out Its Privacy Policy Changes Despite Regulatory Disdain
Google is going ahead with privacy policy changes today despite pleas from European Union and US officials
New Metrics From Android Market Arm Developers With App Usage Statistics
Google's application metrics dashboard for Android Market now informs developers how their products are faring with users
VMware Helps Java Developers Handle Big Data With Spring Hadoop
VMware's Spring Hadoop targets enterprise Java developers who want to create Big Data analysis applications
MWC 2012: Huawei Adds Its Backing To Tizen Mobile OS
Android beware, Huawei has added its backing to Tizen just as a beta of the new mobile operating system has been made available
MWC 2012: Microsoft Opens Windows 8 For Public Testing
Consumers can now preview Microsoft's forthcoming operating system as Windows 8 opens for free, public download
Strange Android Devices Try To Make A Monkey Of Apple’s Gorilla
Tablet makers, realising they can’t beat the iPad 3, are trying to play different games instead. Wayne Rash asks: will it work?
HP To Axe Half Of The WebOS Workforce
275 webOS workers lose their jobs despite HP's previous assurances they would be redeployed
Raspberry Pi Launch – A PC For The Price Of A Pair Of Jeans
£22 or less can buy a Linux-based computer to teach the principles of computing to a new generation of programmers