septembre 2011
4 billets
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Amazon has Palm in its shopping cart — will it...
Who will save what’s left of Palm from HP’s bumbling? It could be Amazon, as the online retailing giant is in serious negotiations to snap up Palm from HP, VentureBeat has learned.
A well-placed source tells us that HP is currently looking to rid itself of Palm as soon as possible, and that Amazon is the closest to finalizing the deal, among a handful of contenders.
Indeed, after yesterday’s...
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Kindle Fire features Amazon's 'cloud-accelerated'...
As part of the Kindle Fire unveiling on Wednesday, Amazon announced its new browser architecture, dubbed Silk, which does some processing and rendering in the cloud to speed up Web browsing.
Featuring what Amazon calls a “split browser” architecture, the “cloud-accelerated” Silk uses Amazon Web services to offer a faster Web browsing experience. The Silk software...
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YouTube Planet: Who’s Watching Videos Online?...
Videos are just about the biggest thing on the Internet right now, according to a study from Wistia, a video-hosting company.
The infographic shows that 71% of Internet users visit video-sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo. This number has shot up from just 33% in 2006. The graphic also shows interesting demographic stats like the fact that minorities and people with kids are more likely to...
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In mobile, Apple and Google continue to rule the...
If Google and Apple were to merge, their respective Android and iOS mobile software would seize well over three-quarters of the world’s platform share in smartphones, per latest Millennial Media’s “Mobile Mix” mobile device usage share report. Separately, Android and iOS held 54 percent and 28 percent share in August. Millennial now includes data from smartphones, tablets, e-readers and gaming...
