Phones

Windows Phone Predicted To Displace iPhone

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Windows Phone could represent nearly 17% of the smartphones shipped in 2015, edging out Apple's iPhone for the second-place ranking behind Android smartphones, says analysts at IHS.

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Android Market Celebrates 10 Billion Downloads With 10-Cent App Sale

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Android Market, Google’s app store for phones using its Android OS, is celebrating is 10 billionth download by selling premium apps for 10 cents.   A different group of 10 apps will be on sale for 10 cents apiece daily for 10 days.

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Best Free Android Apps of 2011

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Some of the apps on this caught my eye: Facebook Messenger, which would let me stay on touch with my kids from my phone using Facebook chat; SpeakToIt, which is a Siri-like voice command system for Android phones; and Netflix, which could let me view a movie ot TV show from my phone.    if you're using an Android, this list of free apps from PC World looks worthwhile.

RIM Takes $485 Million Writedown And Its Tablet Is Selling Finally But Everything Is Riding On Its New QNX OS

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The Blackberry PlayBook tablet from Rearch In Motion is selling finally, but only because it's price $200, which reportedly is $100 to $200 below its cost. And with RIM taking a $485 writedown on its weak revenue and recent service glitches, the stakes are even higher in rolling out its new QNX operating system and new features for PlayBook, The New York Times says.  

Best Free Android Apps of 2011

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Some of the apps on this list are just for fun, but a few of the Android apps on this list of 25 can help advisors with business and productivity.   For example, the post offers a single database for all your social media contacts across different platforms and a voice assistant that i said to rival Siri.