Apple reigns the quarter but Samsung reigns the year

According to the report from the strategy analysis states that the iPhone family overtook Samsung with 24 percent of the market share in the fourth quarter. During this time, Apple's global smartphone shipments grew by 128 percent and it shipped 37. million phones.

Over the year, all global smartphone shipments increased by 54 percent and in the fourth quarter reached a record number of 155 million phones shipped.

"While Apple took the top spot in smartphones on a quarterly basis, Samsung became the market leader in annual terms for the first time with 20 percent global share during 2011," Strategy Analytics Executive Director Neil Mawston said in a statement.

When all numbers were tallied at the end of the year, the two companies were neck and neck. Samsung shipped 97.4 million units with 19.9 percent of the market share, and Apple shipped 93 million units with 19 percent of the market share.

"With global smartphone shipments nearing half a billion units in 2011, Samsung is now well positioned alongside Apple in a two-horse race at the forefront of one of the world's largest and most valuable consumer electronics markets," Mawston said.

The next biggest shipper was Nokia with 77.3 million smartphones shipped and 15.8 percent of the market. However, "Nokia's global smartphone market share halved from 33 percent in 2010 to 16 percent in 2011," Strategy Analytics' Tom Kang said. "A lackluster touch-screen smartphone portfolio and a limited presence in the huge United States market caused Nokia's shrinkage last year."

"Nokia's partnership with Microsoft will be very much in focus during 2012," Kang added. "The industry will be watching closely to see how swiftly the two companies can expand in the high-value 4G LTE market that is rapidly emerging across the United States, Japan and elsewhere."be watching closely to see how swiftly the two companies can expand in the high-value 4G LTE market that is rapidly emerging across the United States, Japan and elsewhere."

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So.cl - a new competitor to Google Plus

So.cl ("social") is a research project from Microsoft’s FUSE Labs.

 "So.cl combines social networking and search, to help people find and share interesting web pages in the way students do when they work together. So.cl helps you create rich posts, by assembling montages of visual web content." says Microsoft.

But So.cl is just similar to the Google Plus and Facebook which allows to rich media sharing just like the upload video option from Facebook and Google Plus, and real time sharing of videos via "video parties" Similar to the Hangout option from Google Plus.

"We expect students to continue using products such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other existing social networks, as well as Bing, Google and other search tools. We hope to encourage students to re imagine how our everyday communication and learning tools can be improved, by researching, learning and sharing in their everyday lives" Says Microsoft, indirectly they are targeting to Google Plus, Since they uses Facebook login and their search API's are different from Bing and Microsoft claims it as a different product and not related to Bing.

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Christmas celebrations for spam too....

This year Christmas celebration starts with the spam. After the attack of various spam attacked the entire internet world, it still remained in few cases like the Nigerian spam asking to pay for them to check out their huge cash, persons from abroad starting their new branch in their home town and lot more.

This time the spam are offering a lot of gift products, gift coupons and lot more, this spam started increasing through the social media like Facebook. After the huge spam attack on Facebook, this new spam is started. Even Facebook fixed their previous spam, whether they will take any further steps to stop this kind of the spam?

Even Google plus is trying to fight back against the spam, new techniques are still in progress. However the spammer also finds new strategy to attack the netizens. 

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Let it snow - Christmas Easter Eggs from Google

Are your ready for the christmas celebration with white snows? Get in to Google, to celebrate it, Just open the Google search and type Let it snow. Then your screen will be filled with the digital snow. It will make the entire screen to froze. You can't click on any of the results but dont get panic, the search icon will be changed to "Defrost" button, just a click to clear the icy veneer.

Last month the searchers discoverd "Do a barrel roll" will lead to a role in the Google page. Similarly the let it snow is also working. The trick will not work in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8, nor in older versions of Firefox or Safari. This code will work only in updated browsers.

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Volunia is available now...

Volunia is now available for power users. Volunia is the hyper search engine expected to be released before the end of this year, now made available for the power users.These power users would be granted early beta access and direct lines of communication to developers.

Those interested in learning more about this highly veiled search can watch the videos posted on the Volunia site.

How to be a power user for Volunia ?

Becoming power user for volunia is so simple, just you need to enter your e-mail id in the publicly available web page and just confirm the same from your inbox, then you will receive a mail from the volunia regarding your confirmation. After few hours you will receive a mail from the Volunia stating,

Within few hours, you will receive the mail from the Volunia to become the power user.

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