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Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of market share

Windows Mobile lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share between last year’s third quarter and this year’s third quarter, according to market researcher Gartner. Figures released Thursday by Gartner show that Microsoft’s mobile OS had 11 percent of the global smartphone market in Q3 2008. A year later, it had 7.9 percent. Meanwhile, the iPhone’s share rose from 12.9 …

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Is Android ready for enterprise use?

With new features like turn-by-turn navigation and a self-correcting soft keyboard, Android 2.0 is enticing new customers who’ve never owned a smartphone. But is Android ready for business customers? With support for corporate e-mail and calendar accounts, Google Android isn’t just for consumers, but some IT managers have raised concerns over the operating system’s ActiveSync client, its encryption, and its …

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