Apple iPhone users: It’s all good — except AT&T
Everyone is supposed to love their iPhones, lest they be branded an Apple hater. But Apple’s comeuppance is at hand.
In the latest going-gaga-for-iPhone customer satisfaction study, CFI Group reported that the iPhone took top honors among smartphones after surveying more than 1,000 users. The iPhone scored 83 [...]
Everyone is supposed to love their iPhones, lest they be branded an Apple hater. But Apple’s comeuppance is at hand.
In the latest going-gaga-for-iPhone customer satisfaction study, CFI Group reported that the iPhone took top honors among smartphones after surveying more than 1,000 users. The iPhone scored 83 on a 100-point scale. Android and the Pre tied for second at 77, followed by BlackBerry (73) and Palm’s Treo (70).
Even though demand for H-1B visas fell sharply this year, the debate over the program that lets employers temporarily hire foreign technology and other specialty workers has continued to intensify, especially in Congress.
Nortel Networks is preparing to auction off its division that makes equipment for GSM networks early next month, continuing the unloading of its businesses under bankruptcy reorganization.
A new agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the U.S. Department of Commerce that creates international oversight of the nonprofit operator of the Internet’s domain name system may not provide enough accountability, some critics said.
With Microsoft Corp.’s frontal attack on Google Inc. with its well-received Bing search engine, Google moved today to keep its huge lead in the business by adding some shiny, new tools.
IBM this week is marking the 10th anniversary of its IBM developerWorks Web site, which features resources for software developers and IT professionals.
Windows Mobile is not dead, and in fact, its use on smartphones will nearly triple by 2013, according to analyst firm iSuppli Corp.
Windows Mobile now runs on 27.7 million smartphones and is projected to be in use on some 67.9 million smartphones in 2013, iSuppli said today. The 2013 forecast means that Windows Mobile would have a 15 percent share of the global smartphone market by then, second to the Symbian OS, which would have a 47 percent market share.
The free Windows 7 upgrades that Microsoft has promised buyers of new PCs powered by Vista are not always free, a consumer watchdog Web site said today.
“To me, whether it’s $12.99 or $17.03, the charges are all outrageous,” said Edgar Dworsky, the editor of Consumerworld.org and Mouseprint.org. “It’s just a single disc they’re sending, and with media mail rates, it costs just over a dollar to mail.”
Google is adding new functionality to a side panel that could provide quicker access to relevant search results, the company said on Thursday.
The company is adding options to filter search results by blog and news items to the side panel accompanying search results. The side panel can be activated by clicking the “show options” button on the search results page.
Newcomers to the mobile-phone market are driving more wireless Web access at the expense of the phone makers that have been around for a while, according to a new report from AdMob.
AdMob serves ads to 9,000 mobile Web sites and 3,000 applications. It tallies the types of phones that are querying those sites and releases periodic reports on its findings.
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