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the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I
run across each week. I am specifically
targeting information that reflects market data and trends.
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The Apple iPhone continues to lead mobile video messaging
usage, increasing from 7.4 percent to 23.6 percent since August 2011. However,
the use of Samsung devices is quickly gaining ground, increasing from 2.9
percent to 21.9 percent over the same period.
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Worldwide enterprise wireless local area network segment
recorded a growth of 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2012 over the first
quarter of 2011, according to a report by the International Data
Corporation. Read Original Content
Google has announced that the acquisition of Motorola
Mobility Holdings, Inc. has closed, with Google acquiring MMI for $40 per share
in cash. Read Original Content
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Chief executive of ARM - Warren East - in an interview with
Dow Jones news agency, said he expects companies making ARM-based chips to
capture about 10 percent to 20 percent of the notebook PC market by 2014 or
2015. Read Original Content
Android smartphone sales were up by 61.3 percent in 2011,
and it has been estimated that 700,000 new smartphones are activated every day.
This benefits Google, whose Android operating system was on 56.1 percent of the
smartphones that were sold in 2011. Read Original Content
Samsung continues to pump out mobile phones like there's no
tomorrow, while Nokia's global market share continues to slip. Apple now
gobbles up 7.9 percent of the market with its iPhone, and Research In Motion
keeps on flailing. Read Original Content
Samsung Electronics has become the biggest seller of mobile
phones, smartphones and LTE phones in the world, according to Strategy
Analytics. Read Original Content
Worldwide sales of mobile phones saw a two percent decline
from the first quarter of 2011, but the launch of Apple’s iPhone 5 will help
drive a stronger second half of the year in Western Europe and North America,
according to Gartner. Read Original Content
Once upon a time, Nokia was the world's leading manufacturer
of mobile phones, with a 41 percent share of the market. Following the rise of
Apple's iPhone and its own slow reaction to the shift in the consumer device
landscape, it has since fallen on challenging times. Read Original Content
With the Samsung Galaxy S3 set to take the Korean handset
manufacturer to new heights of success in the coming weeks, new reports have
suggested that 40 percent of Android smartphones sold are currently Samsung
branded devices. Read Original Content
Hybrid processors that include two or more types of core now
account for half of the $111 billion processor market, driven by growth in
smartphones and tablets, according to new research by IMS Research. Read Original Content
A new report from leading market research firm Gartner
showed a slight decline in quarter-on-quarter worldwide mobile phone sales, but
a possible chance for the market to become more bullish in the second half of
2012. Read Original Content
Galaxy S3, the latest sensation in the smartphone world,
stirred the market yet again with news of generating a whopping 9 million
pre-orders from more than 100 global carriers, reported the Korea Economic
Daily on Friday. Read Original Content
According to a new report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech,
Android controls 50.1 percent of the smartphone market in the U.K., up from a
44.6 percent reading a year ago. Read Original Content
More bad news for Microsoft: Gartner research shows that its
smartphone sales have tumbled by 27 percent compared to a year ago, and
Microsoft now only has 1.9 percent market share. At this rate, it's not clear
if Windows Phone will ever gain traction.
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