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Market researchers from Canalys announced that overall sales of smartphone handsets exceeded those of PCs in calendar year 2011.
more An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including a Windows Phone 8 leak, preordering a Nokia Lumia 900, Microsoft marketing layoffs, Facebook's IPO numbers, an uproar over Google's privacy policy changes, Apple's two patent-related legal defeats this week, Android's domination of the iPhone continued in Q4 2011, and Nokia is struggling but still sells far more handsets than any other company.
more ARM CEO Warren East said that ARM-based tablets and other devices based on Windows 8 were superior both to Android tablets and to Windows 8 devices that will run on Intel-type platforms.
more Microsoft this week unveiled an initiative to attract Google users who are concerned about the online giant's growing data-collection policies.
more Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! announced their support of a new email-security initiative called DMARC that they say will lessen the impact of so-called "phishing" attacks.
more Three months ago, Amazon didn't even sell a tablet computer, but today the firm controls a stunning 40 percent of the market for Android-based tablets, according to one market analyst.
more An often irreverent look at this week's other news, including Microsoft's $250 million payment to Nokia, Microsoft's supposed plans for Xbox LIVE on iOS and Android, Apple's ongoing human rights abuses in China, Samsung (and not Apple) was the number-one smartphone vendor in 2011, HP announces its plans for webOS, Netflix soars on better-than-expected results, AT&T sells far more iPhones than Verizon (but many were older models), and Motorola Mobility posts another loss.
more Nokia announced its financial results for the quarter ending December 31, 2011. And while the press will focus largely on the company's continued attempts to turn things around, there was some good news to report as well.
more Apple proved that it's still the master of its domain, posting a net profit of $13 billion on record revenue of $46.3 billion for the most recent quarter, with an astonishing gross margin of almost 45 percent.
more Microsoft this week provided an update to its ongoing investigation of the Kelihos botnet case, and now alleges that a Russian citizen is responsible for the creation and operation of the botnet.
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