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Judging from recent job advertisements, the next version of Apple’s iPhone will pack support for LTE, the fast 4G wireless technology that is rolling out across the U.S. and other parts of the world.Forbes has viewed listings on the job networking site LinkedIn that indicate Apple is seeking field test engineers with expertise in LTE. [...]
Microsoft suffered an outage with its Office 365 online service Wednesday afternoon, according to the company’s Twitter feed and messages from customers.
On the opening day of LinuxCon, the Linux Foundation’s SPDX workgroup announced the first release of a standard for sharing open source license information.
The fall-out from Apple’s iPhone location-tracking has been most notable in South Korea. The Korean government determined that the iPhone’s automatically keeping track of owners’ movements was illegal and fined the company 3 million won (while that sounds huge, it translates to a measly $2,855). Additionally, a court ordered Apple to pay iPhone-using lawyer, Kim [...]
Supply-chain sources told DigiTimes Monday that Apple is modeling for a 12 to 13 percent increase in iPhone shipments to 56 million units in the second half of this year, including inventory for the first quarter of 2012. According to Gartner, Apple shipped 38.5 million iPhones in the first half of 2011, which suggests Apple [...]
Microsoft launched its new smartphone platform, Windows Phone 7, last year. Since the launch, it has received little interest for its phones. In the meantime, its main competitors, Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, have seen tremendous growth and are dominating the smartphone OS market.Android now has 50% market share of the global smartphone market and [...]
A new article identifies the social-welfare benefits of open source software, despite the existence of free-riding that is inherent in the industry due to information-sharing. The market creates spillover benefits for both consumers and producers.
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