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Cheat Sheet: Symbian
Cheat Sheet However, it was the swathe of software makers that entered the market a couple of years ago that really turned up the heat on Symbian by making its OS look increasingly dated and clunky - Apple's iPhone OS, which arrived... [01 Oct 2009]
Vivek Kundra
AS Profile Before being appointed as CIO Kundra had served as CTO for Washington DC, where he was praised for making bureaucratic systems more efficient and transparent and drawing on applications from Google and Apple. [30 Sep 2009]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile In 1984, he worked as an assembly language programmer in Apple Computer's Macintosh Division, and he founded entertainment software company Liberty Software in 1979 when he was 15 years old. As head of Salesforce.com,... [29 Sep 2009]
Daniel Ek
AS Profile Spotify is now also available via the Apple App Store as well as the Android mobile phone platform, further extending its potential to compete with iTunes. Daniel Ek co-founded the Spotify on-demand music streaming... [29 Sep 2009]
Dave Girouard
AS Profile Having previously worked for Apple's marketing he knows a thing or two about building brands, and Google is also delivering the technology to back it up, something which is clearly going to concern more traditional... [29 Sep 2009]
Eric Schmidt
AS Profile Perhaps reflecting the increasing ambitions of Google, Schmidt left Apple's board of directors in August after saying the two businesses were starting to overlap too much. Google CEO Eric Schmidt makes the Agenda Setters... [29 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile It's not the first time Twitter has featured in the silicon.com Agenda Setters list, its rise since last year is marked: then the three co-creators (Williams, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone) were collectively ranked 22nd, a full 20 places... [29 Sep 2009]
Vodafone gets a slice of Apple's iPhone pie
News Vodafone has revealed it will be the third mobile operator to offer Apple's iPhone in the UK and Ireland. The announcement follows hot on the heels of news yesterday that rival network Orange has signed a deal to sell... [29 Sep 2009]
iPhone coming to Orange as Apple ends its mobile monogamy
News Dave McQueen, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms and Media, said the deal with Orange is good for Apple as it increases the company's addressable market - with the potential for a serious step up if the recently... [28 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up Then again, the Apple fanboys have often claimed almost supernatural powers for the iPhone, so maybe Noel's app fits perfectly. For the Apple II it was the early spreadsheet VisiCalc. O2 reveals the UK... [25 Sep 2009]
BlackBerrys feeling the squeeze as smartphone rivals smarten up
News Apple has reported strong growth of the iPhone, especially its new iPhone 3GS, introduced in June. Even though RIM still saw strong sales of BlackBerrys, the news sent the company's stock price tumbling in after-market... [25 Sep 2009]
Palm Pre UK pricing matches Apple's iPhone
News The WebOS Pre joins Apple's iPhone on the O2 network, and will cost the same in monthly charges as Apple's 3GS device. O2, the exclusive carrier of the Palm Pre when it comes to the UK from 16 October,... [24 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome
Cheat Sheet Well, the web browser market has long been dominated by Microsoft's Internet Explorer and although there are pretenders to Microsoft's throne - such as Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's Safari and Opera - more than two-thirds... [22 Sep 2009]
Macs more likely to be used on your network but you didn't pay for them
Comment silicon.com's CIO Jury doesn't expect IT departments to start buying Macs as a result of the launch of Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system. In fact, while Apple is still popular in some niches in... [21 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News Apple may be reinvigorated with CEO Steve Jobs back at the helm and a new OS just out of the gates, but it looks like the business world is still closed to the Mac maker. According to silicon.com's CIO Jury, the release... [21 Sep 2009]