Wednesday, August 29, 2012

IPhone struggles to gain ground in China


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Apple may be ecstatic about the landmark $1 billion patent war it won against Samsung, but a recent report shows that Apple is a lightweight contender in a much more crucial battleground.
Apple's share of the Chinese smartphone market was just a measly 7.5% during the first half of 2012, according to IHS iSuppli. That put the company in seventh place, behind Samsung (No. 1), Nokia (NOK) (No. 5) and a host of native brands, including Lenovo, Coolpad, Huawei and ZTE.

At 101, Facebook's oldest user(COO Sheryl)visits campus


She may be nearly four times as old as its founder, but Florence Detlor likes Facebook.
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At 101 years old, she's been named by the social network as the oldest of their 900 million registered users.
And she also happens to live near Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, a fact that helped her get a personal tour and chance to meet some of the site's leaders.