No Way You’re Only 40, Happy Birthday Cell Phone!
It was 40 years ago today that Martin Cooper, an employee at Motorola, made the first ever cell phone call from the streets of Manhattan....
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Safari Still Leading With 61% Of The Mobile Browser Market
Net Applications, a site that monitors web traffic, announced today that Apple’s iOS browser Safari won 61.79 percent of all mobile...
Report: Google’s Next Nexus 7 Drops Price To $149
Reuters, citing anonymous sources, says that Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet will be released in July and could be priced at the low-low...
Google Turns Focus To “Engaged” Android Users Rather Than Raw Activations
browser and Internet usage numbers don’t line up with handset market share. Google has always promoted its raw Android activation numbers...
Will Facebook Launch Its Own Phone At Its Android Product Event On April 4?
Facebook is announcing big news next Thursday at its Menlo Park headquarters. Invitations to attend a product announcement invited media...
Feedly Continues To Eat Up Google Reader Mobile Users
announcement of Google Reader closing shop July 1, Feedly has taken the lead for top news app on Androids, iPhones and iPads. After...
Post-Android, Google’s Andy Rubin Has Been Busy On Facebook
I know Rubin has had his Facebook account for at least several months, if not longer, because I’ve followed him there for some time. He...
Is Android Vs. Chrome A Metaphor For Apps Vs. Mobile Web?
According to Nielsen, US mobile users spend just under 80 percent of their time with mobile apps vs. the mobile Web. And, comScore has...
Watch Wars: Samsung Races Apple To Develop Wearable Computer
The Pebble Consumers have only recently gotten used to smartphones and barely integrated tablets into their routines. Soon they’ll be...
Samsung Introduces Galaxy S4 With Nary A Mention Of Android Or Google
unveiled its heavily anticipated Galaxy S4 handset. The event had the hype and production values of an Apple product launch. But, what...
Samsung Launches The Galaxy S4
Galaxy S4 (or officially, the Galaxy S 4). The phone features a 5″ screen without getting larger than the Galaxy S3 plus an array of...
Andy Rubin Out, Sundar Pichai In, To Run Android For Google
Andy Rubin, left; Sundar Pichai, right. Andy Rubin, who has lead Google’s Android operating system efforts, will now be replaced by...
Report: Google Now Coming To Chrome & Chromebooks?
The Verge is now reporting that Google’s virtual assistant Google Now is coming to the Chrome browser and Chromebooks. Google Now will...
The January Smartphone Story: Android Slips, Apple Gains, Feature Phones Fade
The US smartphone story has been pretty consistent for well over a year: Android is now on more than 50 percent of US smartphones,...
China Sounds Alarm About Android Market Dominance
search market share may be hovering below 5 percent, Android is the overwhelmingly dominant smartphone operating system in the world’s...
Google Worries About Getting “Forked” By Partner Samsung
Google’s challenges on both fronts are illustrated by cases involving a rival and a close partner: Yandex (the rival) and Samsung (the...
WSJ: Google Developing Touchscreen Chromebooks [Updated]
forthcoming retail stores: touchscreen Chromebooks. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google and unnamed hardware partners are...
Study: iPhone 5, Galaxy S3 Neck And Neck In Web Traffic Share
latest traffic study, Samsung’s Galaxy S3 has caught the iPhone 5 in terms of the amount of Internet traffic it generates. The findings...
Duopoly Time: Apple And Samsung Combine For Almost 90 Percent Of 2012 Global Smartphone Market
out today from IDC show the two combining for a staggering 87.6 percent of all smartphones “shipped” in 2012 on a global basis. In Q4,...
Google Countersues British Telecom In US, UK For Patent Infringement
have counter-sued the UK’s BT Group (British Telecom) for patent infringement in the US and UK. This follows a 2011 patent lawsuit filing...
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