1.6 billion phones sold as Android grows 888.8%

ZDNet UK (blog) - Jack Schofield - 9 Feb, 2011
News and comment on what's happening in the technology industry, and the direction it's heading. ...

Online Android Market has security flaw

msnbc.com - Matt Liebowitz - 9 Feb, 2011
The new Android Market opened its doors last week, and security experts have already discovered a feature that makes users downloading ...

Gartner: Android ranks 2nd in global smartphones

CNET (blog) - Lance Whitney - 9 Feb, 2011
A surge in sales turned Android into the second biggest smartphone platform in the world last year, according to a new report from Gartner. ...

Android smartphone sales leap to second place in 2010, Gartner says

Computerworld - Matt Hamblen - 9 Feb, 2011
Computerworld - Android in 2010 became the second best selling smartphone operating system after Symbian from Nokia, Gartner reported ...

Android's attack proves successful

JoongAng Daily - Kim Hyung-eun - 9 Feb, 2011
A year ago today, all eyes in the Korean tech world were focused on the long-awaited debut of the Motoroi smartphone. The new product, made by Motorola, ...

Smartphone sales grew 72 per cent in 2010

Inquirer - David Neal - 9 Feb, 2011
SMARTPHONE MAKERS Apple and RIM have toppled Sony Ericsson and Motorola from their spots on the slippery tree that is mobile device ...

RIM and Apple join top five mobile phone makers

Financial Times - Mary Watkins - 9 Feb, 2011
Apple and Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, entered the ranks of the world's top five mobile handset makers last year, ...

Nokia Market Share Slides - Gartner

Wall Street Journal - Gustav Sandstrom - 9 Feb, 2011
STOCKHOLM (Dow Jones)--Nokia Corp.'s (NOK) share of the global handset market plunged last year even as global ...

RPT-UPDATE 1-Component shortages hamper cellphone mkt -Gartner

Reuters - Tarmo Virki, David Holmes - 9 Feb, 2011
HELSINKI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Shortages of key components such as screens and camera modules will put pressure on the cellphone industry through most of this ...

Global Smartphone Sales Rose 72 Percent in 2010, Gartner Says

BusinessWeek - Diana ben-Aaron - 9 Feb, 2011
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Smartphone sales gained 72 percent last year, helping propel the worldwide mobile-phone market to 1.6 billion units ...

Chrome OS delay a 'good marketing decision'

ZDNet Asia - Kevin Kwang - 9 Feb, 2011
Google's move to push release of its Chrome OS-based devices to mid-2011 will help ...

Android's Honeycomb

Manila Bulletin - Rom Feria - 9 Feb, 2011
Now that Google has officially announced the tablet version of its Android mobile operating system, Apple's iPad finally has a worthy ...

Google Unveils Voice Translate for iPhone

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Michael Hickins - 9 Feb, 2011
According to Google's blog post, the new app also includes “significant new additions” to the Web-based version, chief among them the ability to enlarge the ...

Apple's Special Weapon In Its iPad War Against Google (AAPL, GOOG)

San Francisco Chronicle - Dan Frommer - 9 Feb, 2011
As Apple starts to see iPad competition from the likes of Google's Android partners, it has one unique asset that its rivals don't: Its retail empire, ...

Too Early For Android Tablets

InformationWeek (blog) - Ed Hansberry - ‎Feb 8, 2011‎
Given that iOS is owned by Apple and they don't license their platforms, manufacturers that want a piece of the tablet pie have to look elsewhere for the ...

Android, Apple iOS Lead 60% Increase In Smartphone Usage In US

TIME - Graeme McMillan - ‎Feb 8, 2011‎
Americans were using their smartphones a lot more last year, with usage up an amazing 60%. But it's only really good ...

Android outshines Apple in 4th quarter

CNET (blog) - Lance Whitney - ‎Feb 8, 2011‎
Android has swiped second place from Apple as it climbs the ranks of the top smartphone platforms in the US, ComScore reported yesterday. ...

Piper: Android to be billion dollar business in 2011

Fortune (blog) - Seth Weintraub - ‎Feb 8, 2011‎
In a note to investors, Piper's Gene Munster predicted that Android would be a billion dollar business next year. It is all in the accounting. ...

Android Fragmentation Will Get More Complicated

PC World - Daniel Ionescu - ‎Feb 8, 2011‎
Android's platform fragmentation is complicated enough for users, but now more confusion looms as Google ...

Google's Android: A Billion-Dollar Ad Business In 2012?

Forbes (blog) - Eric Savitz - ‎Feb 8, 2011‎
Google (GOOG) could generate over a billion in Android-related advertising revenue in 2012, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. ...

IPad Tablet Domination to Continue

PC World - Ben Camm-Jones - ‎Feb 8, 2011‎
Apple will continue to dominate the tablet market sector for the forseeable future, according to predictions from analyst ...

Five tips to secure your smartphone

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎Feb 8, 2011‎
Modern smartphones like the iPhone and Google Android devices are more complex than desktop computers were just a few years ago, and carry many of the the ...

Smartphone virus attacks soar

Telegraph.co.uk - Christopher Williams - ‎Feb 8, 2011‎
Smartphones including the iPhone and Google Android devices are under increasing threat from computer virus writers aiming to steal money and personal data ...

Smartphone usage in the US jumps by 60 percent: comScore

Independent - ‎Feb 8, 2011‎
There are now 63.2 million mobile phone subscribers aged 13 and over in the US using smartphones, an increase of 60 percent versus a year ago, ...

Smartphones 'out sell' PCs for first time

Register - Timothy Prickett Morgan - ‎Feb 7, 2011‎
According to the device counters at IDC, makers of smartphones shipped 100.9 million devices in the ...

Nokia still top smartphone maker but Android, WP7 units rise

GMANews.TV - ‎Feb 7, 2011‎
The worldwide smartphone market ended the quarter and the year on a high note, with vendors shipping record volumes of units, according to research firm ...

Smartphones growth exploding as Android operating system drives prices down

Economic Times - ‎Feb 7, 2011‎
SAN FRANCISCO: Smartphone growth is exploding around the world, as Google's open-source Android operating system drives prices down, according to a study ...

Android rings up big gains

Toronto Star - Michael Lewis - ‎Feb 7, 2011‎
Smartphones that don't run on the Android operating system suffered significant worldwide market share losses in the fourth quarter, while devices using the ...

Wave of New Tablet PCs on the Horizon

The Chosun Ilbo - ‎Feb 7, 2011‎
The stage is set for a battle among new tablet PCs at the Mobile World Congress which will kick off in Barcelona on Feb. 14. ...

Industry first: Smartphones pass PCs in sales

Fortune (blog) - Seth Weintraub - ‎Feb 7, 2011‎
International Data Corp is showing that in the final quarter of 2010, smartphones passed global PC shipments for the first time in history. ...

 

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