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Apr

23

2012

Video Argues The Flexibility Of Android Over iOS, Makes iOS feel like a crutch

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by Joe Sirianni
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Been surfing on YouTube lately?  If you have, you may have come across a video series where user wicked4u2c has made up around 100 videos showing the flexibility of Google’s Android OS vs Apple’s iOS. The video below demonstrates several pieces of functionality that may cause you to perform more steps than is necessary when [...]

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Apr

23

2012

HTC Partners With ST-Ericsson To Create Mobile Processors

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by Roy Alugbue
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HTC is looking to jump in on the chipmaking party by partnering with ST-Ericsson. According to the China Times, HTC: “Will develop a dedicated application processor that will be incorporated into its low-end smartphones when production starts next year”. There seems to be a few suggestions for why HTC is moving towards its own development [...]

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Apr

20

2012

Apple’s Phil Schiller Unhappy With Instagram’s Expansion, Believes App “Jumped The Shark When It Went To Android”

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by Roy Alugbue
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  Instagram’s release for Android generated an enormous amount of enthusiasm, but also significant angst among iPhone users. Apparently among the people who were unhappy about Instagram’s recent expansion was Apple Senior VP Phil Schiller. 9to5Mac reported one of its readers reached out to Schiller after noticing that his Instagram account, under the name @schiller, [...]

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Apr

18

2012

Apple and Samsung CEOs To Meet In San Francisco For Settlement Talks

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by Ed Caggiani
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It’s no secret that Apple and Samsung have been at each other’s throats in patent lawsuit after patent lawsuit. It’s been going on for quite some time, and everyone knows that the longer the dispute lasts, the more money is spent in legal fees. Perhaps that’s why Samsung CEO Gee-Sung Choi and Apple CEO Tim Cook [...]

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Apr

10

2012

Ding Ding Ding, Survey Says – Google Is More Popular Than Facebook, Apple And Twitter As A Tech Brand

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by Joe Sirianni
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These are the days when a giant company who’s bread and butter is “search” has enough backing in both monetary and production as a brand to become more popular than tech companies like Apple and social media giants like Facebook and Twitter.  It’s anyone’s game these days and it certainly seems like a cutthroat business to stay [...]

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Apr

5

2012

Google CEO Larry Page Interview – Apple’s Fight With Android Was For Show

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by Ed Caggiani
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Bloomberg Businessweek’s Brad Stone sat down with Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page recently and discussed everything from Android to tablets to social networking. Oh yes, they also talked a little bit about Steve Jobs and Apple. Larry took over the Google reins when Eric Schmidt departed last year, and seems to be a man [...]

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Apr

4

2012

Android Makes Up Over 50% Of U.S. Smartphones According To Latest comScore Numbers

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by Ed Caggiani
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The new comScore numbers are out and the more things change, the more they stay the same. Android and iOS dominated while Microsoft and RIM struggled. What’s more interesting, though, is that for the first time in history, over half of all smartphones owned in the U.S. run Android. Over half. That’s a majority. Last [...]

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Mar

29

2012

Wall Street Journal: Google Plans an Online Site For Direct Sales Of Google Branded Tablets

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by Spencer McClendon
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It appears that Google wants to get back into the direct sales department. They reported plan is an online store for Google branded tablets. If you remember, Google tried to sell to the masses with the Nexus One. It had lackluster sales and wasn’t embraced by many. According the WSJ, “people close to the matter” [...]

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Mar

12

2012

Apple Says Samsung Is Not Complying With Judge’s Orders

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by Joe Sirianni
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And the never ending war continues.  In recent news Apple is accusing Samsung of not following orders issued by a judge to turn over all necessary source code to be analyzed by the Cupertino based company.  According to Apple, Samsung had “only partially complied with” the court order which mandated that Sammy hand over the [...]

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Mar

12

2012

Samsung outselling Apple by three to one in China

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by Chris Stewart
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Here at TalkAndroid we’d be lying if we said we didn’t enjoy seeing Apple taking a spanking every once in a while and that’s exactly what’s happening in the Far East right now. Where Android remains the most popular Operating System across the world, the iPhone is generally the top selling individual smartphone in most [...]

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