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Samsung VP Gavin Kim leaves to head Microsoft’s Windows Phone team

Rue Liu, Nov 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

Samsung's VP of consumer and enterprise services, Gavin Kim, is departing the company to join Microsoft as the general manager of the Windows Phone team. The two companies have been working towards a closer alliance, having recently inked a deal over Android patent issues. This move by Kim could further strengthen their ties and bring some of Samsung's success to boost confidence in Windows Phones. Read The Full Story

comScore: Android still way ahead, but Apple now grabs 10% US market share

Rue Liu, Nov 4th 2011 Discuss [26]

Research firm comScore has just released a US smartphone market report for the period ending in September 2011, revealing as expected that Android is still way ahead of the pack, but that Apple continues to grow steadily. In fact, one in ten mobile subscribers in the US now own an iPhone and this is even before Apple released the iPhone 4S. Read The Full Story

AT&T delays closing date for T-Mobile acquisition

Rue Liu, Nov 4th 2011 Discuss [3]

AT&T's bid to purchase T-Mobile for $39 billion has been facing plenty of regulatory anti-trust scrutiny and now the target closing date for the acquisition has been pushed further back. Originally expected to complete by the first quarter of 2012, the merger is now estimated to complete sometime in the first half of next year, adding another 3 months to the time table. Read The Full Story

AMD to cut 10% of workforce in 2012, saving for emerging markets and the cloud

Rue Liu, Nov 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

The world's second largest PC chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced today that it will be cutting 10 percent of its workforce by the end of Q1 2012. That amounts to about 1,200 to 1,400 workers to be let go from its global workforce. The weak computer market has forced AMD to refine its cost structure and to consider investing in lower power, emerging markets and the cloud. Read The Full Story

IDC confirms Apple now surpassed by Samsung in smartphones

Rue Liu, Nov 3rd 2011 Discuss [4]

Research firm IDC has issued new data today further confirming recent reports that Samsung has overtaken Apple in worldwide smartphone shipments. Samsung is said to have shipped 23.6 million smartphones during the summer, which puts it in the lead with a 20 percent share of the global smartphone market. The wait and anticipation for the iPhone 4S drove Apple's iPhone shipments down to second place. Read The Full Story

RIM’s stock drops 68%, falls below book value

Rue Liu, Nov 3rd 2011 Discuss [4]

The makers of the BlackBerry, Research In Motion (RIM), had a very tough year. It's been steadily losing business and customer loyalty, struggling through technology problems and eroding investor faith. And now the company is facing a 68 percent drop in stock value this year, with its book value now worth less than the net value of its property, such as patents and other assets. Read The Full Story

Qualcomm reports stellar Q4 earnings with $4.12 billion in revenue

Rue Liu, Nov 2nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Qualcomm reported its fiscal Q4 earnings today, revealing a revenue of $4.12 billion, which is a 39 percent increase from the same period last year. Net profit rose 22 percent from the same quarter last year, jumping up from $865 million to $1.06 billion. The chip maker also issued a strong guidance forecast, exceeding analyst expectations. Read The Full Story

PoisonIvy RAT used to hack chemical firms by man in China

Chris Burns, Oct 31st 2011 Discuss [0]

The nation of China has been getting a bad rap in these last couple of weeks due to more than one allegation of the country's government hacking sensitive equipment internationally - today it appears that a single man inside the country might extend that press with an unrelated cyber attach of chemical firms in the USA, Bangladesh, and the UK. As China has emphatically denied any hacking on the part of the government in any way at all for the last incident, so too must it made clear here before misinformation is spread: the suspect is a man living in China whose computer system apparently used for the attacks was traced to the United States. Read The Full Story

Microsoft to offer SDK for Kinect commercial apps for businesses

Shane McGlaun, Oct 31st 2011 Discuss [0]

Microsoft has announced today that it has new plans for its Kinect control system that has nothing to do with gaming. Microsoft will be providing a SDK that is designed to allow the development of Kinect for commercial applications. The Kinect for Windows SDK has been around for a while, but that was aimed at allowing the use of the Kinect motion controller for research and geeky tinkering. Read The Full Story

HP may completely shutdown WebOS after all

Rue Liu, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [7]

According to the Guardian, internal HP sources have revealed that the company will be shutting down WebOS. HP had just confirmed yesterday that it will be keeping its PC business, reversing plans to spin-off the PSG division, and although it had insisted back in August that it would continue to support the WebOS software, a complete shutdown of the division looks to be imminent. Read The Full Story

The Business self defense kit is card-sized weaponization

Chris Burns, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [3]

You come to SlashGear on the daily to get a dose of gadgets that will improve your life, but you and I know good and well that every once in a while you want to see something that can give you a black eye- that's why this post is about The Business self defense kit. This is a conceptual design made by Hoang and Ahn Nguyen (no relation to Vincent Nguyen) for CreativeSession, and at a business-card size and made to sit nicely aside your business casual attire, you'll have no problem working overtime and going home after dark. Read The Full Story