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Nokia grabs bigger slice of market
News This means roughly one in four handsets sold throughout the world in the second quarter were Nokia handsets. For Nokia, the key to success appears to be its ability to address developing markets. Nokia is gobbling up market share on mobile handsets... [21 Jul 2008]
Steve Ballmer on a future in the cloud
News He said: "The world will insist on 'click to run', not 'click to install' or 'click to configure'," referring to web applications that make use of developer technology such as Ajax to create richer environments. [10 Jul 2008]
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News These moves show Microsoft is adjusting to a world where its products aren't always the default option. Gates was the one that made Microsoft into the world's most famous tech company due to his technical and business brilliance. [07 Jul 2008]
Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News Instead of collecting and processing ever larger amounts of information in the hope of discovering terrorist plots, Black said, the next-generation approach would be to detect anomalous behaviour in real-time by combining information collected... [04 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! has a reshuffle at the top
News This is a logical next step in light of our success last year in moving to a more centralised approach to developing world-class marketing products. Yahoo! under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management yesterday in a plan designed to... [27 Jun 2008]
Microsoft's future in the post-Bill Gates era
News Microsoft] has taken some difficult decisions recently and is focusing much more on the online world, beginning another phase of the reinvention of the company," he concluded. As the end of an era draws near, silicon.com looks at what Bill Gates... [24 Jun 2008]
Mobile banking set to boom
News The analyst forecasts 41.5 billion mobile financial service (MFS) transactions will be made by the end of 2011, with services being driven by rapid consumer adoption especially by mobile users in developing countries who do not currently have... [18 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News Speaking at the Handsets World conference in Berlin, David Wood claimed there will be "multiple Androids in two years' time". Other delegates at Handsets World were generally enthusiastic about Android's potential, in many cases saying they had... [13 Jun 2008]
Qwerty beats touch for smart phone fans
News The next generation of the $100 laptop - a project aiming to put low-cost laptops in the hands of children in the developing world - has also made a transition from keyboard to touchscreen interface. Touchscreen tech is also making waves beyond the... [02 Jun 2008]
The future, in 3D
News The mobile phone is already revolutionising societies around the world but its impact is accelerating as phones become more powerful and find their way into the hands of more and more people, says futurist, inventor and author Ray Kurzweil. [19 May 2008]
OLPC's Sugar gets sweeter with Windows
News In recent months, the two sides have engaged in more serious talks and started testing the XO Laptop's Sugar software package on Microsoft's Windows operating system, which runs on more than 90 per cent of the world's computers. [16 May 2008]
LiMo targets the business mobile
News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here… Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view... [15 May 2008]
IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?
News The world's largest technology services company is offering software that tracks and caps data centre energy consumption, including power for air conditioning to cool server computers. IBM is expanding in so-called green data centres as it looks... [01 May 2008]
WEEE takes council computers to Africa
News Brent Council in London has hit on a way to comply with the European WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) directive for the responsible disposal of computer hardware, while also helping parts of the world in need of a tech boost. [21 Apr 2008]
Gazing into the technological future
News Self-charging devices and real-time language translation are among technologies pinpointed by future gazers that will change the world. Developing self-charging devices Developing hardware and software based around parallel processing [14 Apr 2008]
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