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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Big four carrier CEOs to share stage at CTIA 2011 keynote]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Keynotes at technology trade shows can be hit or miss. Sometimes you're privy to an hour of juicy news (Verizon at CES 2011) and other times you get only dancers, emcees in wolf hats, and an exec boasting about his fabulous company (Samsung at CES 2011).CTIA 2011, however, promises a good show. On March 22 the opening day keynote will feature a round-table discussion with the CEOs of the four national cell phone carriers. That means you'll see Ralph de la Vegga of AT&amp;T, Dan Hesse of Sprint Nextel, Philipp Humm of T-Mobile, and Dan Mead of Verizon Wireless. The specific topic hasn't been announced, though &quot;What's going on in wireless&quot; is a safe bet, and CNBC's Jim Cramer will host.This is the first time I can remember that all four head honchos will be gathered on one stage at the annual cell phone confab. CTIA takes place in Orlando, Fla. from March 22 to 24. CNET will be there to bring you all the news from the show and to tell you who gets in the best swipes at the keynote. In the meantime, let us know what you'd ask the execs. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Skype outage affecting users around the globe]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The message Skype displays after attempting to place a call.(Credit:Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)Skype appears to be suffering an outage.Twitter users around the globe are taking to the social network to report that Skype is down for them. The tweets started hitting Twitter this morning and continue as of this writing. Users are also reporting that their mobile applications, including those on Android and on theiPhone, are inoperable.I tested the Skype app on myMac and it is down as of this writing. My Skype iPhone app is also down. CNET's Rafe Needleman had been experiencing outage issues this morning, but said that his service was soon restored.Update 9:18 a.m. PT: Skype wrote in an e-mail to CNET this morning that it's &quot;assessing the matter now and its extent. We apologize for the inconvenience caused to our users.&quot;Update 11:12 a.m. PT: Skype then followed that up with a blog post shedding more light on the outage.According to the company, it &quot;noticed that the number of people online on Skype was falling, which wasn't typical or expected.&quot; After investigating the issue, Skype found that &quot;a large number of supernodes,&quot; which act as the service's phone directory of sorts, &quot;were taken offline by a problem affecting some versions of Skype.&quot;To fix the issue, Skype's engineers are currently &quot;creating new 'mega-supernodes'&quot; that should get the service running normally in &quot;a few hours.&quot; Skype's group video chatting feature could take even longer to be fixed.Update 2:27 p.m. PT: As promised, Skype says that its service is &quot;now returning to normal.&quot; However, the company also noted on its Twitter account that it could still &quot;take several hours for everyone to be able to sign in again.&quot;We will continue to share details as we hear more.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IDC: Windows Phone marketplace to be third biggest in 2011]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>groogsvaria</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Microsoft)A report by research firm IDC pegs 2011 as a big year for Microsoft's Windows Phone applications platform, saying that the software maker is already seeing faster growth in terms of its app library than competitors, and could even grab the third spot in terms of overall app volume by mid-2011. IDC analyst Al Hilwa's research on mobile momentum, which was picked up by eWeek, notes that Microsoft'sWindows Phone 7 Marketplace reached 4,000 apps in two months time--a feat that took Android some five months after its launch (from October 2008 to March 2009). At that pace, Hilwa conjectures, Microsoft could be in the number three spot behind Apple and Google, beating out rivals like Research in Motion, and Nokia in terms of app volume by mid-2011.There are some details to note with these claims, the first one being that the app development scene is very different from where it was in 2008, as is Microsoft's market penetration. In fact, just this morning we've gotten a clearer picture of that, with the company having announced that it has sold more than 1.5 million Windows Phone 7's worldwide. Now that's not a precise number of how many users have made actual purchases yet, but it does very handily beat out the 1.5 million G1 Android phones (the first Android phone to hit the market), which took six months to sell. Coming back to the development side though, developers now have a much stronger, and deeper set of tools available for them than they did two or even three years ago. And companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google are going to greater lengths to get developers to code an app or a game for their platform. Leading up to the release of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft did this extensively, offering developers prime real estate in the Marketplace app--something that can bring a big boost to sales. Microsoft also stands to have what could be a larger impact on the types of games and media applications that are able to run on its platform with the continuing development of Silverlight, a technology that makes up part of the Windows Phone 7 SDK, and something that could become a big differentiator in future iterations of the platform.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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