Fahad HJul 1, 20152 min readAndroid Wins 65% Of US Market Share With Help From Galaxy S6 SalesKantar says sales of Samsung’s Galaxy S6 has helped drive Android’s success. “The first full month of sales of the Galaxy S6 allowed...
Fahad HJun 16, 20152 min readGoogle Play Gaining Ground Against Apple, As Android App Downloads Outnumber iOS 2-to-1According to Evans, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Apple and Google both offered numbers...
Fahad HJun 12, 20152 min readReport: Time With Apps Growing But Number Of Apps Used Is NotWhile time spent with apps has grown dramatically, the number of apps used by people on a monthly basis has not. That’s according to new...
Fahad HJun 7, 20152 min readSnapchat Displaces Google+ App From ComScore Top 15 ChartOn Friday comScore released its latest monthly smartphone data for the US. Over the past quarter the iPhone is the only major device that...
Fahad HJun 5, 20153 min readSurvey: Few National Retailers Take Apple Pay Or Intend To This YearMost retailers are notoriously conservative, even lethargic when it comes to adopting new technologies. There’s also a herd mentality in...
Fahad HJun 2, 20152 min readAnother “Market Abuse” Android Complaint Filed Against Google In EuropeDisconnect makes privacy and security apps. The company says that Google removed its new app from Google Play because it allegedly...
Fahad HMay 29, 20152 min readAn Apple Pay Clone, Google’s Android Pay Will Accelerate The MarketGoogle Wallet failed; Android Pay will likely succeed. Like the initial versions of Android itself, Android Pay appears to be a near...
Fahad HMay 28, 20151 min readGoogle Photos, Android Pay, App Campaigns, Offline Maps & “Now on Tap” Some Of ManyToday Google announced a wide-range of new products and features, including a new Google Photos service to help people store and organize...
Fahad HMay 28, 20153 min readApple, Google And PayPal Jockey For Position In Mobile PaymentsAmong the anticipated announcements tomorrow at Google I/O is a revamped and reinvigorated payments strategy. Google is widely expected...
Fahad HMay 8, 20151 min readSmartphone Share Stabilizes In US, Competitive Only At MarginsThe US smartphone market seems to have reached a kind of homeostatic equilibrium. According to many months of comScore data, Android...
Fahad HMay 7, 20151 min readReport: Phablets Grabbed More Than 20 Percent Of Q1 Smartphone Sales In The USLast week Flurry released data showing that “phablets” now constitute 20 percent of all active smartphones globally. Echoing this, Kantar...
Fahad HMay 5, 20151 min readGoogle Says Mobile Search Volumes Pass Desktop, More Effective For App DiscoveryIn a blog post today Google reported that “more Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries including...
Fahad HApr 22, 20152 min readGoogle Fi, Google’s New Cellphone / Wireless Service, Has LaunchedGoogle has now launched its anticipated own cellphone service called Fi. Details are up here on the Google Blog, as well as a new Fi...
Fahad HApr 20, 20151 min readNokia Coming Back As Android Smartphone Brand In 2016Stephen Elop, then Nokia CEO, famously said that the Android OS didn’t offer the company a sufficient opportunity for differentiation in...
Fahad HApr 15, 20153 min readEU Files Antitrust “Statement Of Objections” Against Google On Shopping Search, Also TarAs expected, the European Commission has filed a “Statement of Objections” against Google. These are formal antitrust charges against the...
Fahad HApr 13, 20152 min readReport: Smartphones Reach Nearly 77 Percent Penetration In USOn Friday comScore released its latest US smartphone market-share data (February 2015). It asserts that 76.6 percent of the US mobile...
Fahad HMar 19, 20152 min readSwiss Watchmaker Joins Smartwatch Fray As More Consumers Express InterestRecognizing a potentially serious long-term threat from smartwatches and the Apple Watch in particular, luxury Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer...
Fahad HMar 15, 20153 min readApple Watch: Even With 70 Percent “Not Interested” Apple Could Still Sell MillionsNow that details about the functions and pricing of the Apple Watch are public, industry observers are speculating about the sales...
Fahad HMar 11, 20153 min readGoogle Takes On Apple Store With “The Google Store,” Starring The New Chromebook PixelGoogle has offered its own devices like Nexus phones and Chromebooks through Google Play for some time. But now the company has launched...
Fahad HMar 11, 20152 min readAfter Years Of Flirting With Retail Stores, Google Opens “The Google Shop”A more ambitious Google retail strategy may be in the works. In the past, Google has opened isolated holiday “pop-up stores” and today...
