According to Gartner’s latest market data, end-user sales of smartphones grew 85 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2011. Google’s Android platform led the pack with a whopping 400 percent increase.
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Sonos today released several enhancements to its Linux-powered streaming audio player devices. The new capabilities, all delivered via free apps and software upgrades, include the first Android app for remote control of Sonos gear, new support for Apple AirPlay audio sources, and the introduction of iOS 4 multitasking capabilities into the remote control apps.
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The 50th anniversary of the first-ever manned orbital space flight, by Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, is being celebrated on April 12 with a two-day early activation of the “ARISSat-1” ham radio satellite aboard the International Space Station. If you can get your hands on a scanner or ham radio handy-talkie you can join in the celebration by listening to prerecorded messages from the satellite as it orbits the globe tonight and tomorrow.
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The US-DOT recently abruptly ceased using the name “Intellidrive” to refer to its Connected Vehicle Research program, which prior to being named IntelliDrive had been known as “VII” (Vehicle Infrastructure Integration). The program itself continues unabated, agency officials emphasize.
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Gartner reports that among new smartphone shipments in 2010, Google’s Android penetration rate grew 888.9 percent, making it the second most common OS in new smartphones. As indicated by Gartner’s market share data (tabulated below), the top five smartphone OS vendors in 2010 were Symbian (37.6 percent), Google (22.7 percent), RIM (16 percent), Apple (15.7 percent), and Microsoft (4.2 percent).
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