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comScore: iPhone at 30 percent US smartphone market share, 12 percent total US market share

Jake Smith — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:00:33 +0000

Research firm comScore is out with its latest numbers for the month of December, giving us a glimpse at the current United States mobile market. The report indicates that mobile sales are up-and-rising for the holiday month. comScore found that Google’s Android is leading with a 47.3-percent OS market share (rising 2.5 points) and Apple’s iOS [...] Related posts:

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Gaming Goes Social (And Streaming!) Like Never Before With Crytek’s GFACE

Killian Bell — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:07:28 +0000

Crytek, the developers behind the Crysis series of games, are said to be in the advance stages of building a new social gaming network called GFACE that will be capable of some pretty amazing things. In addition to the features you’d expect from any social network, such as the ability to communicate with friends and [...]

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Mastercard/Paypass to be NFC partner with Apple on iPhone 5?

Seth Weintraub — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:41:21 +0000

iPhone NFC by moneto We had some time to talk to a well-connected developer at Macworld who was building an app that— among other capabilities— includes NFC reading for the purpose of mobile transactions. We were obviously curious why they would do that, noting that third party NFC readers for iPhone were not popular (aside [...] Related posts:

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Apple, Google, and five other companies must face lawsuit over no-poaching agreements

Jordan Kahn — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:04:15 +0000

Late last week we told you that the U.S. Justice Department apparently had evidence that Apple, along along with Google, Adobe, Intuit, Pixar, Intel, and Lucasfilms, entered “no-poach” agreements as part of an antitrust investigation from 2010. U.S. District Judge Lucy H Koh made a statement yesterday at the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., [...] Related posts:

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Kindle Fire Boosts Android Tablets to 39 Percent of Market

Cult of Android — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:17:47 +0000

New numbers show Android-based tablets are gaining on the reigning champ, Apple’s iPad. Although Android owns 39 percent of the tablet market, some question whether there’s a ringer: Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The device is the first non-Apple tablet to lay a hand on the iPad, but uses a highly-customized version of Google’s mobile operating system. [...]

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Lingual Brings Speedy Voice Translation To Siri On Jailbroken iPhones

Killian Bell — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:03:04 +0000

Since the Absinthe jailbreak tool was released for Apple’s A5-powered devices last week, we’ve seen all sorts of tweaks that maximize Siri functionality on the iPhone 4S. The latest is one of the most impressive. It’s called Lingual, and it provides quick and easy voice translation to over 30 languages, using Microsoft Bing Translate API. [...]

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire reduces Apple’s lead, but iPad still rules holiday quarter with 58 percent market share

Christian Zibreg — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:59:51 +0000

Apple’s iPad maintained its market lead throughout fourth quarter of last year even though it lost some ground compared to the previous quarter due to an influx of Android-based tablets. In fact, Amazon’s dirt-cheap Kindle Fire device that costs just $199 saved the day for Android slates, really. This is the gist of the latest survey [...] Related posts:

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Survey: Stellar iPhone sales help Apple beat Android in the United States

Christian Zibreg — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:15:50 +0000

Apple announced monster sales of 37 million iPhones yesterday for the holiday quarter that spanned 14 weeks and ended Dec. 31, 2011. It’s a 128 percent unit increase and 133 percent revenue increase, annually, and enough to knock Samsung off the No. 1 spot it briefly held in the previous quarter. However, it appears that the popularity of [...] Related posts:

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Finally A Victory For PCs: HP, Dell Spend Millions More Than Apple On Google Adwords

Ed Sutherland — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:28:38 +0000

Apple is one of the best-known brands, so no wonder it paid Google just $18 million in 2011 for search traffic. By comparison, HP and Dell, which are breathing heavy to keep ahead of the Cupertino, Calif. tech giant ranked No. 1 and No. 2 for spending big bucks flogging their products online. According to [...]

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Apple spends hundreds of millions to sue Android makers, is it working?

Elyse Betters — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:09:41 +0000

Newsweek‘s Dan Lyons reported today that Apple’s “thermonuclear war” on Android smartphone manufacturers is fading fast, while a new rumor surfaced among the suits’ lawyers claiming the company spent $100 million on its initial set of claims against HTC. Imagine how much Apple spent on other Android makers, such as Motorola (who is near locking Apple [...] Related posts:

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