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Mobile phone shipments on a global basis reached 427.4 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011 — a tepid 6.1 percent rise from the year earlier period, IDC says. The global handset market’s single-digit growth in the seasonally strong fourth quarter shows that handset vendors are not immune to weaker macroeconomic conditions worldwide, the firm’s analysts said Thursday. A surge in smartphone purchases led by Apple’s iPhone 4S in the final three months of 2011 also caused feature phone shipments to decline faster than analysts had expected

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Mobile Phone Growth Slides In Fourth Quarter

Can customers predict the future? Brocade is suggesting the notion as it launches its latest switch innovations.

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Brocade Execs Offer Look Under OpenScript Engine’s Hood

Move over, computers and tablets. For the first time, annual worldwide shipments of smartphones are larger than PCs and tablets. According to figures released Friday by industry research firm Canalys, there were more than 158 million smartphones shipped in the fourth quarter of last year, a whopping 57 percent increase over the same quarter in 2010

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Smartphones Overtake Computers and Tablets

While not leaping into the arms of ARM, AMD is hinting it’s less wedded to the traditional x86 architecture that is its history.

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AMD Makes Risky Move Toward ‘Ambidextrous’ Strategy

Looking to bolster confidence in the security of its fast-growing market for mobile applications, Google is posting a bouncer at the door. The service analyzes new applications in the Android Market as well as those already posted, and even developer accounts, looking for known malware, spyware and trojans

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Google’s Bouncer Searches for Misbehaving Android Apps

With Windows 8 moving toward release later this year, providing an integrated operating system for laptops, desktops and tablets, new details are beginning to emerge about Microsoft’s plans for its next phone OS. Recent reports point to the ways in which Windows Phone 8, code-named Apollo, will advance the company’s mobile platform and tie in with the tablet and computer OS. The online reports began appearing this week

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Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Reportedly Will Share Code

Microsoft Corp. slammed search rival Google Inc.

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Microsoft Slams Google User Data Policy in New Ads

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Microsoft Cuts About 200 Marketing Employees

Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools? Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski on Wednesday challenged schools and companies to get digital textbooks in students’ hands within five years

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Challenge to Schools: Embracing Digital Textbooks

In Facebook’s regulatory filing for an initial public offering of stock, CEO Mark Zuckerberg included a letter to potential investors about the company’s thinking. He described it as a social mission to make the world more open and connected. He also discussed Facebook’s approach to culture and management in Wednesday’s letter: “As part of building a strong company, we work hard at making Facebook the best place for great people to have a big impact on the world and learn from other great people.

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Zuckerberg Describes ‘The Hacker Way’ at Facebook