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Apple's dominance of the tablet market is clear. And a quarter-by-quarter look shows its sales continuing to accelerate, even as new competitors arrive in bunches.

Being able to crunch terabytes of data is great, but having someone else do it for you is even better. HPCC Systems, which launched last week to challenge Hadoop's big data dominance, is planning to do just that with a cloud service for big data processing.

Microsoft's dominance is starting to fade as Macs, smartphones and tablets grow more popular.

Guardian.co.uk: "Microsoft's decision to make its new operating system run on Arm chips will leave it playing catch-up in the growing tablet computer market, says analyst"

There's long been talk of Nvidia joining the server CPU business, but most believed it would go the x86 route.

Instead, it chose ARM. Since ARM's dominance in mobile devices means it is the processor of the future, other companies need a game plan, and fast.

There's only one thing I know about students. There are too many of them.The dominance of online practices over the traditional analog methods has meant that, truly, we need fewer people to make the commercial world spin around.

Machines can now do the work of thousands of interns.

The H Open: "Microsoft's dominance of the desktop "is being chipped away from this side, from that side, and from underneath with embedded Linux, led by different players with different strengths, chipping away at the front door, the back door, the side doors, and the roof.""

Guardian.co.uk: "Microsoft is right to warn about the danger of a serious monopoly in search because of Google's dominance.

Its own revamped search engine, Bing, is a welcome addition and has some interesting features that should earn it more followers."

Technology Review: "The latest version of a Linux-based netbook OS called Moblin could be set to challenge this dominance.

Originally developed by Intel and optimized to run on its Atom netbook processors, Moblin version 2 beta was released last month."

TechWorld: "Intel has announced a beta version of a Linux OS for netbooks, one that it hopes will end the dominance of Windows on the low-cost devices."