ComScore (http://www.comscore.com), a company that “measures the digital world,” released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending in February.
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Here are the latest updates for Mac OS X apps.
St. Clair Software (http://www.stclairsoft.com/) has updated App Tamer, its Mac utility that automatically pauses applications to improve battery life and reduce CPU usage, to version 1.2. .The new version displays CPU usage in your menubar in several ways. It also updates compatibility with Firefox 11 and resolves an issue where it could miss an application or show one twice.
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The new issue of FORTUNE just came out this morning includes the cover story, The 12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of Our Time and What You Can Learn From Them.” The late Steve Jobs is on the list
Here is FORTUNE’s list of the “12 Greatest Entrepreneurs of Our Time”: Steve Jobs (Apple); Bill Gates (Microsoft); Fred Smith (FedEx); Jeff Bezos (Amazon); Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google); Howard Schultz (Starbucks);
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Apple is increasing its lead as the most popular mobile platform among application developers while Google’s Android has receded and Research In Motion’s devices plunged anew, reports “Reuters” (http://macte.ch/82AhK), noting a quarterly survey by Appcelator.
The survey asked developers if they were interested in writing programs for various devices. The results showed Google’s Android slipped even though sales of devices powered by the operating system surged.
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Worldwide media tablet shipments into sales channels rose by 56.1% on a sequential basis in the fourth calendar quarter of 2011 (4Q11) to 28.2 million units worldwide, according to the IDC research group (http://www.idc.com).
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