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Nokia: Symbian has smartphone 'heritage'
News Nokia's experience as smartphone maker is its best weapon against competitors in hotly contested high-end segment, says mobile device maker.
Tags: Symbian, Open source, Apple Inc., Security, Smart Phone, Platform, phone, Emerging Market, Open source, Symbian
Mobile interoperability to remain pipe dream
News Phone makers are not likely to give developers ability to port apps to competing platforms, as ability to offer exclusive apps remains differentiating factor.
Tags: Open source, Development/design, Ovum, Mobile, Developer, operating system, Interoperability, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Platform, phone
A Web site for crushes and votes
Insight newsmaker Astute young businessman Ian Lim believes helping video bloggers become stars will also rake in money for a site he's founded.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Business development/management, TV, micropayment, Video, Singapore, Platform, blogging, revenue
Android a 'marketing label'?
News As rival players in the space Google and the Symbian Foundation--which drive different mobile OS platforms--have taken swipes at each other.
Tags: Open source, Mobile platforms, Mobile platforms/communications, Mobile, Google Inc., operating system, Symbian Inc., OEM, Platform, Symbian Foundation Platform
LinkedIn unveils new search platform
News The business social-networking site says it examined more than a billion search queries executed by members to create new productivity tools.
Tags: Search, Domain names, HR policies and procedures, Workforce, Tool, spell checker, Platform, Amazon.com Inc., e-mail, product manager
AMD throws its weight behind 'balanced' platform
News The high-definition movement and a growing number of gamers add wind to the chipmaker's tune of blending strong CPU and graphics performance.
Tags: Multiprocessor servers, Mobile processors, Processors, Global strategic management, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD Phenom, Dual-core, GPU, Graphics, Notebook
Should software developers fear Facebook, Apple?
News Harvard law professor says that controlling third-party platforms may put companies in a gate-keeping position that could stifle innovation.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Protocols and platforms, Apple Inc., App, Developer, Platform, social networking, software, Facebook, co-founder
Opera: Mini leads cross-platform charge
News Browser maker says Opera's reach extended to include devices such as games devices and in-flight entertainment systems, where over 35.6 million people use Opera Mini.
Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Opera Software ASA, Microsoft Corp., mobile, Web Browser, Europe, Microsoft Internet Explorer, antitrust, Microsoft Windows
Yahoo veteran named to MySpace CTO spot
News Alex Maghen, who previously served as the head of technology for MySpace Music, has tough road ahead of him, as News Corp.-owned site has fallen from favor in Silicon Valley.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web 2.0, MySpace, entertainment, chief technology officer, Facebook, CTO, exec, News Corp., Web 2.0
AMD delivers its own server platform
News Low-power platform, formerly codenamed Fiorano, offers server builders combination of six-core Opteron with choice of three chipsets from AMD.
Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PCI Express, Server, AMD Opteron, performance, processor, product marketing, data center, chipset
Freescale aims Android at embedded kit
News A new Power Architecture port has taken Google's Linux-based operating system into the world of embedded devices.
Tags: Google Android, Smart phones, Google Inc., IBM Corp., Mentor Graphics Corp., open-source mobile operating system, RISC, Power Architecture, MPC8536E PowerQUICC III, Google Android
Macquarie Bank launches new Internet platform
News Macquarie Bank has teamed up with finance news aggregator Wotnews to deliver a new retail online trading platform.
Tags: E-commerce, Stock Market, Investor, online retail, Stock, trader, financial, network, SMS, Internet
Is Adobe replaying Sun's Java tape?
Insight commentary Adobe's attempt to bring its AIR platform to all handhelds smells strongly of Sun Microsystems' attempt to dominate the smartphone market with Java. Will the software giant's efforts suffer the same fate?
Tags: Smart phones, Mobile applications, Protocols and platforms, Adobe Systems Inc., Phone, AIR 2.0, mobile, Mobile applications, Smart Phone, Stock
NetApp refreshes data center OS for the cloud
News Storage firm combines its Data Ontap 7 enterprise platform and Data Ontap GX clustered computing platform into single codebase tailored to cloud deployments.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Supercomputing, Cloud computing, Storage, Cloud computing, high-performance computing, 64-bit, high-performance, data management, disk
How will you use Google Wave?
News Google's Wave collaboration platform is already attracting attention from businesses, according to one of the key architects of the service.
Tags: Web 2.0, Google Inc., SAP AG, TechEd, software, Web 2.0, Vienna, IM, decision-making, collaboration
