Fahad HFeb 13, 20131 min readOracle V. Google Part Deux: The Copyright AppealOracle has filed an appeal in its unsuccessful copyright and patent case against Google involving the Java programming language...
Fahad HFeb 13, 20132 min readGlobal Handset Sales Fall But Smartphones Continue To GainAccording to sales data compiled by Gartner, global mobile handset sales in 2012 hit 1.75 billion units. However that was a nearly 2...
Fahad HJan 31, 20131 min readApple iPad Loses Some “Shipments Share,” Still Dominates Web TrafficAccording to these numbers, Apple’s dominant position in the market declined from 51.7 percent to 43.6 percent. Samsung lead the Android...
Fahad HJan 30, 20132 min readApple-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...
Fahad HJan 23, 20132 min readMost 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...
Fahad HJan 16, 20131 min readReport: iOS Continues To Dominate Web TrafficA report appearing in the Wall Street Journal asserting that Apple cut production orders on components for the iPhone amid weak demand...
Fahad HJan 10, 20132 min readGoogle Maps “Returns” To Windows Phones, Scoutmob Goes On A Google Field TripWe agree that it looked bad — and the conspiracy theory made for a sexy and provocative story — however it simply wasn’t accurate. Danny...
Fahad HJan 7, 20132 min readApple Announces 40 Billion App Downloads To Remind Developers Of Where The Money Isannouncing that the iTunes App Store had reached 40 billion app downloads. It also said in the release that nearly half of those had come...
Fahad HJan 3, 20131 min readAndroid Has Nearly 54 Percent Mobile Market Share — comScoreEarlier today comScore released November mobile market share numbers for the US. Android and iOS continued their gains, with Android...
Fahad HJan 2, 20133 min readIf 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...
Fahad HDec 21, 20122 min readGoogle Developing “X-Phone” To Avoid Getting “Forked” By Samsungreporting that Google’s Motorola unit is hard at work on a secret “X-phone” that will “provide more potent competition for devices like...
Fahad HDec 12, 20122 min readGoogle 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...
Fahad HDec 11, 20121 min readReport: iPad Owners More Educated, Affluent Than Android Tablet OwnersThe Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a report on the mobile news consumption habits of US young...
Fahad HDec 10, 20121 min readStrange Bedfellows: Apple-Google Team Up In $500MM Bid For Kodak Patentsthe “thermonuclear” rift happened and the cacophony of bitter lawsuits. Indeed, in the wake of the global litigation between Apple and...
Fahad HNov 27, 20121 min readDemand Raging For Google Nexus 4 Android Handsetbest Android phone on the market. It kicks the Samsung Galaxy’s proverbial posterior. And at $299 for the unlocked 8GB version it frees...
Fahad HNov 27, 20122 min readReport: iPhone 5 Gaining Share, Leads Android In Recent SalesAccording to Kantar Worldpanel Comtech research the iPhone 5 has overtaken Android in US smartphone sales. Buoyed by existing iPhone...
Fahad HNov 20, 20123 min readGoogle’s “AR” Game Ingress Offers A Glimpse Of The FutureHe and his team at Google’s mobile incubator Niantic Project have now done it with Ingress — an augmented reality multi-player game...
Fahad HNov 12, 20123 min readAfter Five Years, Dominant Android OS Increasingly Identified With Samsungfifth birthday. CNET offered a breakdown of the current and very impressive Android penetration numbers: Roughly 1.3 million activations...
Fahad HNov 9, 20123 min readWindows 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...
Fahad HNov 9, 20122 min readStudy: iPad Controls 98 Percent Of Tablet Web Trafficsays that Android’s share is gaining on Apple. However, despite the increase in “shipments” of various tablets, very few of them drive...
