January 27, 2012
With Apple’s U.S. dominance, smartphone race heads overseas On ZDNet, Ed Bott reports on which markets favour which smartphone. “Apple has done as well as it has by capturing the hearts and minds of the most affluent. Those customers don’t just pay a premium for hardware, they also pay a premium for monthly service, which puts more money in carriers’ pockets. That’s the reason Apple reported a staggering 44.7 per cent gross profit margin (up from 38.5 per cent a year ago) in its recent quarterly results,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Galaxy drives up profits for Samsung On The Register, Brid-Aine Parnell looks at the company’s standing. “The company has been working hard to revive its semiconductor and display businesses, suffering in the poor economic climate from a reduced appetite for PCs and tellies, as well as from shortages emanating from the flooding in Thailand last year,” Parnell writes. What’s your opinion?
What could proposed EU regulations mean for the cloud? On Talkin’ Cloud, Matthew Weinberger explores the issue. “One of the more controversial provisions of the Data Protection Regulation is that organizations of 250 seats or more will be required to appoint a data protection officer to make sure that standards are being kept and potentially (this point is still unclear) actually perform the reporting. This has been criticized as an undue burden on the business,” he writes. What’s your opinion?