Apple to Port iPhone Operating System to New Platforms

From X-bit Labs: Consumer electronics manufacturer Apple apparently has big plans for its iPhone operating system going forward. A recent job posting revealed that Apple was looking forward a software engineer with knowledge of hardware design to port Apple iPhone OS to new types of...

Amazon and Microsoft Sign Cross-License Deal

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with Amazon, the world’s largest Internet store.

The agreement provides each company with access to the other’s patent portfolio and covers a broad range of products and technology...

Windows 7 early adoption beats Vista's 2-to-1

From InfoWorld: In the five months since its release, Microsoft's Windows 7 has captured twice the usage share than did Vista in the same time period, a Web metrics company said today.

According to NetApplications.com of Aliso Viejo, Calif., Windows 7 accounted for 9 percent of all...

Twitter Use Explodes, Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day

From PC World: Recent reports saying Twitter's popularity is declining might not be very accurate. Users of the micro-blogging social network are posting more messages than ever -- as many as 50 million 140 character-long messages every day, the company on Monday announced in a blog...

Lenovo says businesses don't want slate devices

From CNET News.com: Lenovo refreshed its tablet-capable business laptop on Tuesday and made a very conscious decision not to bring out a slate device, saying customers don't want it.

Lenovo updated its x series tablet with a new x201 model that packs Intel's newest low-power Core i5...

Mobile phone sales perk up in fourth quarter

From CNET News.com: Global sales of mobile phones dipped slightly in 2009 overall but did stage a fourth-quarter recovery, according to new figures from Gartner.

Last year, consumers worldwide bought 1.21 billion cell phones, a 0.9 percent decline from the prior year. However, a...

Walmart Hungers for World Domination With E-Books, Movie Rentals

From DailyTech: Walmart may be the largest retail chain in the U.S. and one of the biggest companies in the world, but the wildly successful ultra-ubiquitous retailer has shown signs of weakness in sales of physical media like DVDs and CDs. Competitors like Amazon.com and Apple have...

Lenovo Debuts New ThinkPad Notebooks, Tablet, ThinkServer

From DailyTech: The new ThinkServer is the TS200v and it looks more like a desktop computer than a server you would find in an enterprise environment. The machine can be had with Intel Core i5-670, 660, 650, or 540 processors. The machine can also be had with an Intel i3-530, Pentium...

Cisco-HP split may not be too painful for customers

From InfoWorld: Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard probably won't force their mutual customers to take sides after the end of their partnership, though the vendors are deadly serious about competing against one another, analysts said.

Cisco said last week it would not renew its...

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