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Smartphone Adoption Reaches 40 Percent in Canada

By Guest PostNovember 30, 2011Technologyapple, canada, canadians, Comscore, google android, Microsoft, mobile phone, mobile phone industry, nokia, oems, original equipment manufacturers, os, qr codes, rim, Samsung, smartphone, smartphone operating system, symbian

RIM Continues to Lead Smartphone Market, with Apple a Close Second

Google Android Doubles its Smartphone Market Share in Past Six Months to 25 Percent

TORONTO, CA, November 30, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the Canada mobile phone industry for September 2011. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in Canada 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 September report found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.2 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 35.8 percent share of that market segment. (more…)

Microsoft Acquires Video Content Discovery Company VideoSurf

By Guest PostNovember 22, 2011Technologyacquisition, alex garden, bbc, bing, bravo, comcast, digital games, discovery technology company, hbo go, kinect, lior delgo, Microsoft, syfy, televisa, uk, verizon fios, videosurf, xbox 360 ecosystem, xbox live

REDMOND, Wash., and SAN MATEO, Calif. — Nov. 22, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. has announced the acquisition of California-based video discovery technology company VideoSurf Inc.

Founded in 2006, VideoSurf offers a back-end computer vision technology that “sees” frames inside videos to make discovering content fast, easy and accurate. Over time, Microsoft will integrate this technology across its entertainment platform to augment the Xbox 360 ecosystem and evolve search and discovery of entertainment content on Xbox LIVE. (more…)

Microsoft IT Academy Provides Critical Technology Skills and Changes the Life of One Young Student

By Guest PostNovember 18, 2011Technology21st century workplace, digital literacy, information technology, jennifer tyndall, Microsoft, microsoft certification tests, microsoft it academy, microsoft it academy classes, microsoft news center, microsoft office applications, microsoft onenote, miranda hill, mnc, north carolina student, software program, teacher, university of carolina at pembroke, with it skills

*Roundtable Q&A: North Carolina student Miranda Hill and former teacher Jennifer Tyndall discuss their experiences with the Microsoft IT Academy and winning recognition in a global competition.*

REDMOND, Wash. — The 21st-century workplace is driven by information technology, and in today’s competitive job market, employers are seeking candidates who can hit the ground running with IT skills in place.

The Microsoft IT Academy provides a complete IT education solution to help students gain the skills they need to be successful in college and career. The program helps drive employability, digital literacy and 21st-century workforce development for students. At the same time, educational institutions are provided with the structure for a program that has the instant recognition and credibility of the Microsoft brand. (more…)

comScore Releases Overview of European Internet Usage in September 2011

By Guest PostNovember 14, 2011Technologycareer services and development category, Comscore, czech portal seznam, dublin based digital media company, ea online, espace emploi international, european markets, european online audience, Facebook, france, Germany, Google, internet usage in europe, italy, jobrapido, Microsoft, mozilla organization, populis, russian social network, top european web property, turkey, united kingdom, vkontakte

30 Percent of European Internet Users Seek Career Information Online
Russia Overtakes Germany as Market with Largest Online Audience

LONDON, UK, 14 November 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an overview of internet usage in Europe, showing 373.4 million unique visitors went online in September 2011 for an average of 26.4 hours per person. This release highlights internet usage in 49 European markets aggregated into the European region and provides individual reporting on 18 markets. Amongst its findings, the study showed strong growth in September 2011 for the Career Services and Development category with a 14 percent increase in unique visitors from the previous month. (more…)

comScore Releases October 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostNovember 11, 2011Technologyamericans, aol, ask network, bing, Comscore, comscore qsearch, core search market, digital world, Google, google sites, Microsoft, powered by google and bing, u.s. search marketplace, Yahoo

RESTON, VA, November 11, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in October with 65.6 percent of search queries conducted.

U.S. Explicit Core Search

Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in October with 65.6 percent market share (up 0.3 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 15.2 percent and Microsoft Sites with 14.8 percent (up 0.1 percentage point). Ask Network accounted for 2.9 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.5 percent. (more…)

Exploring the Ocean in Our Brains with Jaron Lanier

By Guest PostNovember 9, 2011Technology100 most influential people of 2010, 3d environment, avatars, back to nature, cyberspace, digital maoism, gadget, geometry, hollywood, human, human machine interaction, jaron lanier, kinect for xbox 360, manifesto, Microsoft, microsoft research, minority report, motion sensing camera, optimist, sex in movies, silicon valley, somatic cognition, thinking about technology, time magazine, triangle, video game store in california, Wall Street Journal

*Jaron Lanier has spent decades thinking about technology and the ways we use – and misuse – it. He also has been thinking long and hard about using avatars to access the untapped potential of our brains.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Nov. 9, 2011 – One evening last November, Jaron Lanier queued up outside a video game store in California and counted down the minutes until he could buy Kinect for Xbox 360. Lanier – a technologist, computer scientist, composer, and one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2010 – was just as excited to get his hands on Microsoft’s motion-sensing camera as the other gamers in line, most of whom he quickly realized were half his age. He was only slightly embarrassed by the observation.

“As a grownup and as a father I can’t believe I did that,” said Lanier, a partner architect for Microsoft Research. “But I was just so amazed it was really happening.” (more…)

comScore Reports September 2011 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2011Technologyamericans, apple, blogs, Comscore, google android, Microsoft, mobile devices, mobile phone, mobilens data, motorola, oem, rim, Samsung, smartphones, Social networking sites, symbian, us mobile phone industry

*More Than 40 Percent of Subscribers Use Browsers and Applications*

RESTON, VA, November 4, 2011 – 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 September 2011. The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.3 percent market share. Google Android continued to gain ground in the smartphone market reaching 44.8 percent market share. (more…)

Bing Social Search Team Makes Search ‘Less Lonely’

By Guest PostNovember 3, 2011Technologyamerican sitcoms, bing, bing experience, buffy the vampire slayer, cd of mp3s, christina aguilera, cliff claven, electronica music, Facebook, florida, german, Google, jack tripper, knight rider, maroon 5, Microsoft, microsoft news center, mnc, paul yiu, sean suchter, silicon valley, silicon valley campus, social networks, social search, social search team, sonic youth, Technology, the carpenters, the cranberries, the terminator, tim harrington, visuals and animations

*Three members of Bing’s social search team chat with Microsoft News Center about working in the exciting technological frontier of search – and what they do when they’re not hard at work.*

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Sean Suchter’s last name is a misspelling of the German word for searcher, which has to be one of the greater aptronyms in the technology industry.

Suchter heads up Bing’s social search team on Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus, where he relishes his job as a frontiersmen in the field of search, particularly social search. (more…)

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