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comScore Reports January 2013 U.S. Smartphone Subscriber Market Share

By Guest PostMarch 6, 2013Technologyandroid, apple, blackberry, Comscore, data, Google, htc, iPhone, lg, Microsoft, mobile, mobile phone usage, mobilens data, rankings, rim, Samsung, smartphone, symbian

Big Jump in January Smartphone Adoption Driven Largely by Apple

RESTON, VA, March 6, 2013 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. smartphone industry during the three month average period ending January 2013. Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 37.8 percent OEM market share, while Google Android led as the #1 smartphone platform with 52.3 percent platform market share.

Smartphone OEM Market Share

129.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (55 percent mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in January, up 7 percent since October. Apple ranked as the top OEM with 37.8 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers (up 3.5 percentage points from October). Samsung ranked second with 21.4 percent market share (up 1.9 percentage points), followed by HTC with 9.7 percent share, Motorola with 8.6 percent and LG with 7 percent (up 0.3 percentage points). (more…)

TechForum Demos Reveal New World of ‘Intelligent Technology’

By Guest PostMarch 5, 2013Technologybig data, craig mundie, don mattrick, entertainment business president, eric rudder, evolution in computing, intelligent technology, kurt delbene, machine learning, Microsoft, natural user interfaces, new world, qi lu, rick rashid, skype, techforum demos, tony bates

Get a behind-the-scenes look at futuristic technology demos showing how big data, machine learning and natural user interfaces are helping to bring about a new world of “intelligent technology.”

REDMOND, Wash. – March 4, 2013 – Microsoft’s strategic and technical vision for the future was discussed this week at TechForum, an annual event hosted by Craig Mundie, senior advisor to the CEO, and Eric Rudder, Microsoft’s chief technical strategy officer.

Mundie and Rudder were joined by Interactive Entertainment Business President Don Mattrick, Online Services Division President Qi Lu, Skype Division President Tony Bates, Microsoft Office Division President Kurt DelBene, Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid and others in discussing and demonstrating how the company is approaching this evolution in computing. (more…)

Miami-Dade County and IBM Establish Public-Private Partnership on Smarter Cities Initiative

By Guest PostMarch 4, 2013Technologybig data analytics, carlos a gimenez, future economy, government transparency, ibm, ibm smarter cities, ibm system, intelligent operations center, intelligent policing, ioc, mayor, mayor gimenez, mdpd, miami dade county, michael j dixon, public private partnership, pureflex system, smarter cities initiative, time sensitive information, transportation efficiency, water management, z mainframe, zlinux

Collaboration helps government harness Big Data to serve residents more efficiently and save taxpayer dollars

ARMONK, New York – 04 Mar 2013: Miami-Dade County and IBM today announced a transformational Smarter Cities initiative to improve services for residents and help agencies share information among the35 municipalities within the county.

A model for the rest of the nation, the County is using Big Data analytics — managing large datasets from multiple sources — and cloud computing to help leaders make better decisions. (more…)

Yammer Announces Message Translation to Ignite Multilingual Collaboration

By Guest PostFebruary 28, 2013Technologyadam pisoni, enterprise social network, microsoft acquisition, microsoft office division, microsoft translator, show original text, Social networking, united states, yammer, yammer co founder, yammer conversation

Uses Microsoft Translator technology to support 39 languages.

SAN FRANCISCO — Feb. 28, 2013 — Yammer, Inc., a best-in-class Enterprise Social Network and part of the Microsoft Office Division, today announced plans to add message translation capabilities, which will allow users to instantly translate Yammer conversations into their native languages.

“Removing language as a barrier to cross-company collaboration can be a competitive game changer for multinational organizations. It opens a world of possibilities,” said Adam Pisoni, Yammer co-founder and general manager of Engineering, Microsoft Office Division. “This is another example of Yammer’s accelerated innovation following the Microsoft acquisition — we’re able to use Microsoft Translator to quickly deliver additional value to customers.” (more…)

Buying ad time just got easier

By Guest PostFebruary 28, 2013Technologyadvertising, buy ads, buying ad time, ceo, chen lin, consumers, emory university, fast moving minnows, forms of media, internet, laptop, marketing science, Media, media consumption habits, media multiplexing, michigan state university, most accurate model, print publications, sandy jap, smart phones, sriram venkataraman, surfing the web, tv

Today’s consumers switch between media forms so often – from TV to laptops to smart phones – that capturing their attention with advertising has gone, as one CEO explained, from shooting fish in a barrel to shooting minnows. (more…)

IBM Big Data Technology Helps South Korea’s Meteorological Administration Increase Accuracy of Weather Forecasting

By Guest PostFebruary 27, 2013Technologyaircraft, balloons, barometric pressure readings, big data, cheollian, data per second, data storage system, environmental conditions, environmental problems, gigabytes, gpfs, gyoung hyun lee, high capacity data, historical data, hwangsa, ibm, ibm korea, images, jung uk tak, kma, meteorological administration, meteorological data, meteorological satellite, mongolia, natural disasters, nmsc, northern china, observations from satellites, petabytes, predictive environmental forecasting, real time analysis, sand storms, ships, south korea, spring season, technologies on earth, temperature, terabytes, trajectory, typhoon, wind speeds

South Korea’s most powerful data storage system helps tackle weather’s data deluge

Seoul, SOUTH KOREA – 27 Feb 2013: South Korea’s Meteorological Administration (KMA) and IBM today announced a project to help KMA and its affiliate, the National Meteorological Satellite Center (NMSC), tackle Big Data for better, more accurate and predictive environmental forecasting.

As South Korea’s national meteorological organization, KMA’s mission is to protect citizens’ lives and property from natural disasters and support economic activities sensitive to environmental conditions. (more…)

Around the World with Windows Store Apps

By Guest PostFebruary 26, 2013Technologyapp builder, barcelona, calculator, chimpact, cookbook, doodlegod, ela, france, Germany, italy, joybits, magix, mobile world congress, music maker jam, paint 4 kids, phd student, physics, pietro, richard walters, russia, slow sense, spain, urban airship, US, windows 8, windows store apps, yippee entertainment

From a physics Ph.D. student-turned-app builder to chimps launching an indie game studio, app builders across the globe are bringing amazing experiences to Windows 8 and enjoying success along the way.

REDMOND, Wash. – Feb. 26, 2013 – This week, thousands have descended upon Barcelona, Spain, for Mobile World Congress, the world’s premier mobile industry event. In honor of this international gathering, we’re celebrating Windows Store apps from around the world, along with stories of the people working behind the scenes to bring those apps to life on Windows 8. (more…)

‘Most Verbose’: Meet Microsoft’s Original MVP

By Guest PostFebruary 26, 2013Technologybroadband, calvin hsia, calvin list, compuserve forum, database, developer division, Facebook, feedback, foxpro, hawaii, Microsoft, microsoft ceo, microsoft employee, modem, most verbose, most verbose people, mvp list, original mvp, professional program, redmond, sde, software development engineer, steve ballmer, Twitter, verbosity, visual studio

Twenty years ago, Calvin Hsia created a list of the “Most Verbose People” on a CompuServe forum that became Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional program.

REDMOND, Wash. – It’s 1993, and you need technical support. Who you gonna call?

Most techies at the time would plug in their modems and dial up CompuServe. In the days before Twitter, Facebook and broadband, CompuServe’s forums were a gathering place for geeks to talk shop and get answers to burning questions. (more…)

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