Oracle V. Google Part Deux: The Copyright Appeal
Oracle has filed an appeal in its unsuccessful copyright and patent case against Google involving the Java programming language...
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Global Handset Sales Fall But Smartphones Continue To Gain
According to sales data compiled by Gartner, global mobile handset sales in 2012 hit 1.75 billion units. However that was a nearly 2...
Apple iPad Loses Some “Shipments Share,” Still Dominates Web Traffic
According to these numbers, Apple’s dominant position in the market declined from 51.7 percent to 43.6 percent. Samsung lead the Android...
Apple-Samsung Patent Verdict Now Empty Footnote In Global Smartphone Contest
$1 billion patent infringement verdict against Samsung would would rock the smartphone world. However, in the months since the landmark...
Most Popular App In The US? It’s Facebook (Thanks To Apple)
new numbers out today from the comScore Mobile Metrix service. ComScore says Facebook ended the year with more than 85 million unique...
Report: iOS Continues To Dominate Web Traffic
A report appearing in the Wall Street Journal asserting that Apple cut production orders on components for the iPhone amid weak demand...
Google Maps “Returns” To Windows Phones, Scoutmob Goes On A Google Field Trip
We agree that it looked bad — and the conspiracy theory made for a sexy and provocative story — however it simply wasn’t accurate. Danny...
Apple Announces 40 Billion App Downloads To Remind Developers Of Where The Money Is
announcing that the iTunes App Store had reached 40 billion app downloads. It also said in the release that nearly half of those had come...
Android Has Nearly 54 Percent Mobile Market Share — comScore
Earlier today comScore released November mobile market share numbers for the US. Android and iOS continued their gains, with Android...
If 2012 Was “The Year Of Mobile,” 2013 Will Be “The Year Of The Tablet”
But even as marketers have yet to fully “get their heads around” the new reality of smartphone-powered consumer behavior they’ll have to...
Google Developing “X-Phone” To Avoid Getting “Forked” By Samsung
reporting that Google’s Motorola unit is hard at work on a secret “X-phone” that will “provide more potent competition for devices like...
Google Chairman Schmidt Touts Android Sales: “We’re Like The New Microsoft”
Quoted in a Bloomberg article Schmidt said the following: Booming demand for Android-based smartphones is helping Google add share at the...
Report: iPad Owners More Educated, Affluent Than Android Tablet Owners
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a report on the mobile news consumption habits of US young...
Strange Bedfellows: Apple-Google Team Up In $500MM Bid For Kodak Patents
the “thermonuclear” rift happened and the cacophony of bitter lawsuits. Indeed, in the wake of the global litigation between Apple and...
Demand Raging For Google Nexus 4 Android Handset
best Android phone on the market. It kicks the Samsung Galaxy’s proverbial posterior. And at $299 for the unlocked 8GB version it frees...
Report: iPhone 5 Gaining Share, Leads Android In Recent Sales
According to Kantar Worldpanel Comtech research the iPhone 5 has overtaken Android in US smartphone sales. Buoyed by existing iPhone...
Google’s “AR” Game Ingress Offers A Glimpse Of The Future
He and his team at Google’s mobile incubator Niantic Project have now done it with Ingress — an augmented reality multi-player game...
After Five Years, Dominant Android OS Increasingly Identified With Samsung
fifth birthday. CNET offered a breakdown of the current and very impressive Android penetration numbers: Roughly 1.3 million activations...
Windows Phone, Microsoft Surface And The “Battle Of The Ecosystems”
And while Windows Phones (8) do have some unique features and the UI is nicely done, none of those individual OS features is likely to...
Study: iPad Controls 98 Percent Of Tablet Web Traffic
says that Android’s share is gaining on Apple. However, despite the increase in “shipments” of various tablets, very few of them drive...
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