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Apple is clearly the leader in the app ecosystem – with the most and highest quality apps – for both handsets and tablets. The iTunes App Store is the best app store in the market. Yet even Apple has seen fit to make a significant investment in app discovery through its acquisition of Chomp last ... Full Article »
There is no better time than now to purchase a smartphone. Apple’s iPhone 4S and the soon-to-be released Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Motorola RAZR are setting new standards in smartphone functionality, reliability and design. In fact, these top-of-the-line devices are setting a higher bar for everyo ... Full Article »
New study results from research firm Nielsen suggest that the runaway freight train that is Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system may have slowed down, bringing Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone and Research In Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry into a steady split of the smartphone OS market. According to a ... Full Article »
Gadget makers are swarming over the tablet market like ants on a dropped sandwich, yet they’re barely making a dent in iPad’s dominance of the market. Consumers are confused and don’t find much to lure them from Apple (AAPL). In just the past week, two newcomers have joined the rush at Appleâ ... Full Article »
Research In Motion (RIMM), the Canadian firm behind BlackBerry, is set to release their tablet called the PlayBook on April 19th. There have been many questions whether RIM can stay relevant in this market given the other big players in this space and those about to enter it. For the consumer, there ... Full Article »
The outcome of a ruling later today in a patent lawsuit by photo company Eastman Kodak (EK) against Apple (AAPL) and Research in Motion (RIMM) could cost the latter two companies as much as $1 billion. That’s according to Bloomberg, which has been monitoring the details of the lawsuit over photo ... Full Article »
Just a day after an online petition and outrage from protesters prompted Apple to remove an anti-gay ministry’s app from its iTunes App Store, the company is being pressured again to remove apps from its market -- this time by members of the federal government. Four democratic senators have bande ... Full Article »
ViP Day is nearly upon us. That’s Verizon iPhone day this Thursday when the dreams of smartphone owners apparently will come true—availability of the popular phone on the most robust phone network in the U.S. At last, app fans can own Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone on the Verizon (VZ) wireless network ... Full Article »
The horserace for domination of the smartphone market is tighter than ever, with Apple’s (AAPL) iOS leading the way and Google’s (GOOG) Android attracting the newest customers, the Nielsen Co. reports in Nielsen Wire. From June through November, Android represented 40.8 percent of smartphone ac ... Full Article »
It’s good to be Samsung, and Google (GOOG) has to be excited as well: the phone-maker has sold 10 million of its Galaxy S smartphones worldwide, and they all run Google’s Android operating system. Samsung is reporting that 4 million Galaxy S phones were sold in North America, with 2.5 million s ... Full Article »
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