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HTC beats Samsung in American smartphone market with 24% ShareHTC edged out Samsung Electronics to become the largest smartphone vendor in the US, capitalising on the Android platform's popularity and a lull in demand for iPhones to overtake Apple and Research In Motion. A 10 percentage-point jump in share from a year earlier gave Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC 24% of the world's largest smartphone market in the third quarter, ahead of Samsung's 21%, Palo Alto, Cali..

Cognizant emerges new leader, serious challenger to IBM, Accenture Cognizant Technology Solutions kept up its searing pace of expansion in the July-September quarter, establishing itself as the clear growth leader for India-based rivals to emulate and mounting a s.. GeoIQ Releases Real-Time Streaming Social & Device Data & Mapping API Platform Location data provider GeoIQ today detailed a new offering called GeoIQ Social. This is a real-time streaming API that delivers location-enabled data from Twitter, Pachube-enabled sensor hardware and .. Shop In Augmented Reality With Amazon Flow for iPhone Amazon just announced the release of Flow an augmented reality shopping app for the iPhone. It uses both barcode and image recognition in a live camera view to help users shop. It recognizes books, DV.. TRUSTe to Issue Free Privacy Policy Creation Starter Kit for Mobile Developers Internet privacy solutions provider TRUSTe is concerned that mobile apps do not have built-in privacy solutions. TRUSTe claims that 77% of all mobile applications lack privacy policies that can allow .. Twitter Tests “Top News” And “Top People” At Top Of Search Results In what appears to be a test among some users, Twitter is adding 'Top News' and 'Top People' results at the top of its realtime search results. When you search for a hot story like 'gmail' (which cam.. Google, Why Don't You Hang On To That Gmail App For A While? By now you're probably well aware that Google released their long-awaited Gmail iOS app today, only to unceremoniously yank it from the App Store when people pointed out that it didn't really work. Go.. How Google Reader's Overhaul Betrayed and Irked Its Most Passionate Users Yesterday, I got an email from a good friend with a subject line that needed no further explanation: 'Google Reader.' It was sent to a group of mutual friends, bemoaning the recent changes to Reader's.. BeachMint's BeautyMint Gets 500,000 Visitors In First 24 Hours  In October 2010, a Los Angeles-based startup called BeachMint launched JewelMint — a service that sends you a new piece of jewelry every month, at a price that's much less than you'd typica..