Research company Canalys has released its estimates of smartphone shipments for 2011, noting that annual global shipments of smartphones exceeded those of client PCs - desktop PCs, laptops, netbooks and tablets - for the first time.
Total worldwide smartphone shipments increased 63% year-on-year to 487.7 million units, it calculated, while the number of client PCs shipped globally grew by 15% to 414.6 million units.
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Google has revealed details of a behind-the-scenes security service called ‘Bouncer’.
It automatically scans applications in the Android Market to identify whether they are likely to behave maliciously when installed on a user’s smartphone.
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