"The fundamental problem with CE was that they set out to make alightweight, versatile operating system," said Summit Strategies analystWarren Wilson. "But it wasn't optimized for handsets, and they suffered asa result.". A rival handheld operating system produced by a coalition of companiescalled Symbian has instead taken a majority of the worldmarket, while Palm's operating system has also seen success, Wilson said. Microsoft also has tried to push its own technology for wireless Webbrowsing, but has found little success thus far attracting largecommunications carriers as customers. Its Microsoft Mobile Explorerbrowsing software trails farbehind a competing browser created by start-upPhone.com, for example. Other companies also are pushing their own services.

Also, although it's a Motorola phone, the Droid does not use the MotoBlur software that we saw on the Motorola Cliq, Part of the reason is that the Droid is targeted for a bit of a different audience than the Cliq (read: older, a little more business-oriented) so it didn't really jibe with the experience that Moto and Verizon want to offer to its customers, and we think that was a good decision, The UI is cleaner and offers three home panes where you can customize each screen with various widgets and graphic 183 iphone case shortcuts for easy access to you favorite apps, To do so, you can do a long press on the home screen which will bring up a menu where you can choose from a list of shortcuts or widgets, Of course, you can also drag apps from the main menu up to the home screen and conversely, dragging them down will remove them from the panel (though not delete them)..

"I don't think the small- and (midsize)-business market will be critical for SSL VPN vendors anytime soon," said Jeff Wilson, an analyst at Infonetics. "But it certainly makes sense to move in this direction.". Aventail among first to introduce a type of secure remote networking product for small and midsize businesses. That's what Aventail says. On Monday, the company will announce the EX-750, a less-expensive version of its SSL VPN--or Secure Sockets Layer virtual private network--product, which provides secure remote access through a Web browser. The EX-750 has all the same features as the company's larger EX1500, but it supports fewer users and is priced much lower than its flagship product, the company said.

Cabletron executives on Tuesday said Aprisma will initially become a subsidiary of Enterasys, but will spin off into its own graphic 183 iphone case independent company by year's end, Cabletron executives say they will either sell Global Network Technology Services or close the business, As part of the plan, Cabletron will also dole out the brunt of its $960 million in cash and investments to Riverstone, Enterasys and Aprisma in exchange for shares of its spun off companies, Cabletron, in turn, is giving those shares to its shareholders..

So, why is Samsung's market appeal on the rise? According to ChangeWave, it's due mainly to the recently launched Galaxy Nexus. That device, which boasts Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and comes with a 4.65-inch display, is Samsung's flagship device right now, and arguably the best iPhone competitor the company offers. When it comes to satisfaction, however, the divide between Apple's and Samsung's handsets is quite large, ChangeWave found. A whopping 75 percent of iPhone owners say they are "very satisfied" with their smartphones, compared to just 47 percent of Samsung smartphone owners. BlackBerry owners were least likely to be "very satisfied," with 22 percent saying they feel that way about their handsets.