Android tops RIM Google’s Android operating system has passed Research in Motion for the largest share of the smartphone market, while Apple’s iPhone remains No. 3.
Reston-based comScore Inc. says in the three months ending in Jan. 31, Google climbed to a 31.2 percent market share among smartphone users, up from 23.5 percent the previous three months. RIM fell 5.4 percent to a 30.4 percent market share.
Apple’s iPhone climbed 0.1 percent, accounting for 24.7 percent of the smartphone market. Microsoft was fourth at 8 percent. Smartphone pioneer Palm fell to just 3.2 percent of the smartphone market in January.
ComScore says 65.8 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones in the three months ending in January, up 8 percent from the previous three months.
Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business cracks top 10
Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2011 rankings of top undergraduate business schools puts Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business at No. 10 on the list, up from No. 23 last year.
Ranked No. 2 is the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Business in Charlottesville, the same position it had on the 2010 list.
The University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business ranks No. 39 this year, down from No. 36 last year.
Businessweek bases its rankings on survey results from graduating seniors and corporate recruiters, as well as each school’s SAT scores, class sizes and student-to-faculty ratios.
The College of William and Mary’s Mason School of Business in Williamsburg rose to No. 23 from No. 25 last year. James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., ranked No. 28, up from No. 41 in 2010.
Loyola’s Sellinger Business School in Baltimore ranked No. 45, unchanged from 2010.
Businessweek’s top-ranked business school for 2011 is the Mendoza School of Business at Notre Dame, 2010’s top-rated school as well.
Discovery starts stock footage site
Discovery Communications has more than 25 years of film and video footage, and it is putting it to work. The Silver Spring company is now selling rights to its archives through a new business called Discovery Access.
More than 100,000 hours of content are now available to outside film producers and production companies through a new online portal, DiscoveryAccess.com, where the footage can be purchased and downloaded for use.
Fees vary widely, based on length of footage and intended usage. For example, a 16-second clip of a tiger shark is listed for purchase for as little as $449 for an educational, nonprofit Web project, to as much as $3,500 for a commercial advertisement with a worldwide audience.
