Google’s Android operating system gave Linux-on-mobile sales a healthy boost in the fourth quarter of 2008. In its latest report on the state of smartphones, IT analysts Gartner said that Linux-based mobile sales increased from 2.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2007 to 3.2 million units at the end of 2008. This was despite a general slowdown in growth for the entire smartphone sector over the same period.

Gartner estimates that HTC’s G1 Android-based mobile smartphone accounted for as much as 20% of Linux sales during the quarter. All told, Linux-on-mobile sales climbed 19.5 percent during the quarter when compared with the corresponding 2007 quarter.

Comparing 2008 with 2007, however, the picture is not as rosy. Linux-based smartphone sales in 2008 were down 4.2 percent over 2007 sales. Sales of Apple’s iPhone in 2008 were a massive 245.7 percent higher than in 2007 and Research in Motion’s Blackberry devices increased sales by 96.7 percent.

At the top of the operating system pile Symbian remained dominant, accounting for 52.4 percent of the smartphone market in 2008. This was, however, down 6.1 percent over 2007 as Symbian also lost ground to Apple’s Mac OS X and RIM. Microsoft’s Windows Mobile managed to increase its sales by 12.2 percent when comparing 2007 and 2008.

source : www.tectonic.co.za

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what happen now?

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although this was her father-in-law (datuk k’s father) passed away news last year.

ps.: takziah for siti nurhaliza on her father passed away news

SITI Nurhaliza melihat jenazah bapanya dibalut dengan kain kafan di rumahnya di Bukit Antarabangsa, semalam. pic source : utusan.com.my

Bapa Siti Nurhaliza Meninggal Dunia
KUALA LUMPUR, 15 Feb (Bernama) — Bapa artis wanita paling popular Datuk Siti Nurhaliza Tarudin, meninggal dunia akibat sakit jantung di Hospital Pakar Ampang Puteri di sini hari ini.

Tarudin Ismail, 67, dimasukkan ke hospital berkenaan Jumaat lepas untuk menjalani pembedahan pintasan jantung dan tidak sedarkan diri sejak itu.

Suami Siti, Datuk Khalid Mohd Jiwa ketika ditemui pemberita di hospital tersebut berkata Tarudin telah lama mengalami masalah jantung dan dinasihatkan menjalani pembedahan pintasan jantung.

Selain masalah jantung, Allahyarham juga menghidapi penyakit kencing manis dan buah pinggang. Allahyarham rebah di bilik air dan dibawa ke Hospital Pakar Ampang Puteri Jumaat lepas di mana pembedahan pintasan jantung dilakukan, katanya.

Tetapi selepas pembedahan itu, Allahyarham koma dan disahkan meninggal dunia pada pukul 11.50 pagi ini.

Jenazah akan dikebumikan selepas solat Maghrib di kampung Allahyarham di Kuala Lipis, Pahang hari ini.

Turut hadir menziarahi jenazah ialah Yang Dipertua Negeri Melaka Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob.

— BERNAMA

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