By Paul Thurrott
Earlier this month, I wrote about my decision to migrate my consolidated personal email accounts from Gmail to Hotmail, which I use along side Exchange-based solutions at work and with Office 365. Since then, I’ve gotten a lot of interesting feedback from readers and, perhaps not coincidentally, have seen some interesting moves from both Google and Microsoft in the web email space. But the big news, perhaps, is that this transition has gone a lot more smoothly than I’d imagined.
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By Paul Thurrott
A report by Strategy Analytics shows that sales growth of Android tablets outpaced that of the iPad in the fourth quarter of 2011, closing the gap between the two product lines. Apple’s iPad now controls 58 percent of the tablet market, compared to 39 percent market share for Android.
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By Paul Thurrott
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.
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