Business, IT Professionals Move Toward Android Tablets

Featured Report: Business, IT Professionals Move Toward Android Tablets
e-Marketer
July,03, 2012
One-third of business professionals and half of IT professionals without a tablet plan to purchase an Android Most of the attention surrounding the widespread adoption of tablets has focused on Apple’s breakout hit product, the iPad. But a June report by research firm IDG Connect surveying business and IT professionals worldwide found that devices running Google’s Android operating system may be set for higher adoption rates among business clients. The poll found that 74% of business professionals and 69% of IT staff owned tablets. Read Complete Article

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RIM under pressure to cut fees carriers pay for BlackBerry network access
By: Phil Golstein
July,05,2012
Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) acknowledged that it is facing pressure from carriers to cut the fees it charges them for access to RIM's BlackBerry data network, another sore spot for the company as it tries to turn itself around. RIM disclosed the pressure in a filing late last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In its fiscal first quarter those fees, or service revenue, made up 36 percent of RIM's $2.8 billion in quarterly revenue, or a little over $1 billion.
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App Store encryption glitch pushing corrupted iOS apps
By: Jason Ankeny
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Dozens of newly updated iOS applications distributed via Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store are crashing immediately after launch, with developers blaming the problem on an encryption glitch. Instapaper creator Marco Arment first reported the issue Wednesday on his blog, writing "Last night, within minutes of Apple approving the Instapaper 4.2.3 update, I was deluged by support email and Twitter messages from customers saying that it crashed immediately on launch, even with a clean install… Lots of anxiety and research led me to the problem: a seemingly corrupt update being distributed by the App Store in many or possibly all regions. And this is happening to other apps, not just Instapaper, updated in the last few days." Other iOS apps impacted by the glitch, according to Arment: Angry Birds Space HD Free, GoodReader, Meetup and Gaia GPS. (The complete list is here.)
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Verizon, MetroPCS file lawsuit to block FCC open-access regulations
July, 03, 2012
By: Dan Meyer.
Verizon Communications and MetroPCS, fierce rivals in the wireless world, have teamed up to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s open access rules, noting in a lawsuit that the FCC stepped beyond in a recent decision regarding broadband service providers. In the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., Verizon and MetroPCS note that FCC requirements that broadband service providers have to carry all data traffic regardless of origin goes against the 1996 Communications Act as well as First Amendment rights that prevent the operators from controlling what is transferred over their private networks. The lawsuit cites a previous ruling in a case against Comcast where an appeals court overturned the FCC’s attempts to impose similar regulations on the company’s broadband service.
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