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comScore Reports October 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

By Guest PostDecember 3, 2010Technologyamericans, android, apple, Comscore, comscore mobilens, digital world, google android, Microsoft, mobile subscribers, motorola, nokia, oems, original equipment manufacturers, os, rim, Samsung, smartphone, smartphone operating system, Social networking sites, u.s. mobile phone industry

*Smartphones Now Used by 1 in 4 U.S. Mobile Subscribers*

RESTON, VA, December 3, 2010 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending October 2010. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers ages 13 and older, and reviewed the most popular activities and content accessed via the subscriber’s primary mobile phone. The October report found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 24.2 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 35.8 percent market share. (more…)

LivingSocial Announces $175 Million Investment by Amazon.com

By Guest PostDecember 3, 2010TechnologyAmazon, ceo, commerce space, investment, lightspeed venture partners, livingsocial, tim o'shaughnessy, urban escapes

WASHINGTON (PRNewswire via COMTEX) — LivingSocial (www.livingsocial.com) has secured a $175 million investment from Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN). LivingSocial has also secured an additional $8 million investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners. LivingSocial will use this investment to maintain a steady drumbeat of worldwide launches and overall business growth while continuing to serve more than 10 million subscribers across the U.S., Canada, UK, Ireland and Australia in more than 120 locations. Because of LivingSocial’s rapid expansion, the company is currently booking revenues of more than $1 million a day on average and is projected to book well over $500 million in revenue in 2011. (more…)

2011 Common Platform Technology Forum to Feature Leading-Edge Manufacturing Solutions from IBM, Samsung and GLOBALFOUNDRIES

By Guest PostDecember 2, 2010Technology20nm, 32/28nm low-power high-k metal gate process technology, 32/28nm technology generation, california, cmos, common platform technology forum, convention center, ecosystem partners, eda, globalfoundries, hkmg, ibm, industry, michael cardigan, microelectronics, samsung electronics, santa clara, silicon valley

*Daylong event January 18 will highlight technology delivery at 32/28nm and beyond*

SANTA CLARA, Calif., – 02 Dec 2010: IBM Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., and GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the 2011 Common Platform Technology Forum will be held Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California’s Silicon Valley. This free, daylong event will feature the Common Platform’s innovative collaboration to deliver semiconductor manufacturing solutions that address the challenges of the 32/28nm technology generation and beyond. (more…)

Norton Healthcare Enters Agreement with Microsoft

By Guest PostDecember 2, 2010Technologyaccountable care organization, aco, aco pilot, greater louisville, health solutions platforms, humana, johns hopkins health system, Microsoft, microsoft amalga uis, microsoft amalga unified intelligence system, microsoft healthvault, newyork-presbyterian hospital, norton healthcare, peter neupert, southern indiana, steven t hester, uis, wisconsin health information exchange

*Norton Healthcare has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to use its health solutions platforms to support its Accountable Care Organization (ACO) initiative.*

REDMOND, Wash., and LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Dec. 2, 2010 — Norton Healthcare has entered into an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to use its health solutions platforms, Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) and Microsoft HealthVault. These systems will allow Norton Healthcare to aggregate and mine data in a highly efficient manner and will assist the Louisville, Ky.-based health care system in its Accountable Care Organization (ACO) initiative.

Norton Healthcare and Humana Inc. are working together to establish the first ACO in the region, which represents one of four national pilot sites for the Brookings-Dartmouth ACO Pilot Project. The ACO model Norton and Humana are co-creating established incentives for health systems to increase quality and efficiency, better coordinate patient care, eliminate waste, and reduce the overuse and misuse of care (see Nov. 23 news release: “Norton Healthcare and Humana Launch Accountable Care Organization”). (more…)

Billion Dollar Bonanza: Cyber Monday Surpasses $1 Billion in U.S. Spending as Heaviest Online Shopping Day in History

By Guest PostDecember 1, 2010Culture, Technologybillion-dollar threshold, Comscore, cyber monday, gian fulgoni, holiday season retail e-commerce spending, online spending, us web sites

*Cyber Monday Shows 16 Percent Increase vs. Year Ago with Half of Online Spending Coming from Work Computers*

RESTON, VA, December 1, 2010 – comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 29 days of the November – December 2010 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $13.55 billion has been spent online, marking a 13-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. Cyber Monday reached $1.028 billion in online spending, up 16 percent versus year ago, representing the heaviest online spending day in history and the first to surpass the billion-dollar threshold. (more…)

Made in IBM Labs: Breakthrough Chip Technology Lights the Path to Exascale Computing

By Guest PostDecember 1, 2010Technologychip technology, cmos, cmos integrated silicon nanophotonics, computer chips, electrical, electrical signals, exaflop, ibm, nanophotonics, nanophotonics technology, optical devices, pulses of light, scientists, silicon, silicon nanophotonics, t c chen, terabits, yurii a vlasov

*IBM Silicon Nanophotonics uses optical signals to connect chips together faster and with lower power*

Yorktown Heights, N.Y. – 01 Dec 2010: IBM scientists today unveiled a new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light (instead of electrical signals), resulting in smaller, faster and more power-efficient chips than is possible with conventional technologies.

The new technology, called CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics, is the result of a decade of development at IBM’s global Research laboratories. The patented technology will change and improve the way computer chips communicate – by integrating optical devices and functions directly onto a silicon chip, enabling over 10X improvement in integration density than is feasible with current manufacturing techniques. (more…)

Amazon.com and Penguin Group (USA) Announce Fourth Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition

By Guest PostDecember 1, 2010Culture, TechnologyAmazon, amazon breakthrough novel award competition, competition, createspace, farishta, jeff belle, lev grossman, manuscripts, patricia mcardle, penguin, penguin group, popular novel, self-published authors, talented writers, the magicians, tim mccall

*Two grand prize winners, one for general fiction and one for best young adult novel, to be published by Penguin Group (USA)*

SEATTLE & NEW YORK, Dec 01, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. and Penguin Group (USA) today announced the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition, the international competition seeking the next popular novel. Due to the popularity of the additional young adult category in 2010, the competition will again award two grand prizes: one for general fiction and one for best young adult novel. Each grand prize winner will be published by Penguin Group (USA). The 2011 competition will again be open to unpublished and self-published novels. Writers around the world are encouraged to begin preparing their manuscripts for entry into the competition, which will launch on Jan. 24, 2011. (more…)

Yahoo!’s Top Ten of Everything 2010

By Guest PostDecember 1, 2010Technologysearches on yahoo, top ten, year in review

– Analysis of billions of searches used to gauge the mood of the great British public (more…)

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