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Apr

22

2011

Samsung responds to Apple’s lawsuit with 10 new patent infringement claims

by Dustin Karnes
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Who doesn’t love a good slap fight? If you do, then it looks like you’re n luck with the drama currently brewing between Apple and Samsung. We reported a little while back on Apple filing a lawsuit against Samsung for patent infringement claims. Samsung isn’t taking it lying down, as they have now shot bak [...]

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Apr

21

2011

Is Amazon launching their own Android tablet this summer?

by Jesse Bauer
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GDGT’s founder Peter Rojas believes Amazon could be the next run at Apple’s tablet market domination. The article makes good insight and a great argument how Amazon is positioned strategically to take Apple on in a mixed business plan containing many things that may appeal to consumers more than what Apple is currently offering. The [...]

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Apr

15

2011

Android eating into Nintendo DS market share – nom nom nom

by Jesse Bauer
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In a new report from research firm Flurry Analytics, Nintendo is starting to feel the pressure from mobile gaming, particularly from Android and iOS devices more than any other. As we showed yesterday, Android apps in the market are over 350,000, with a good percentage of those being games. Major game developer companies like EA [...]

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Apr

5

2011

Another Post On How Android Is Beating Out iPhone and Blackberry

by Joe Sirianni
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If you’re an Android user, posts like this never get old.  In fact, they more often than not equip the Android user with useful, statistical and factual data to keep in their arsenal for those days when the overzealous iPhone fan-boy and BlackBerry user claims their device is the best thing since sliced bread, simply because it’s [...]

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Apr

3

2011

Android freight train keeps rolling despite Verizon IPhone, but there is still a long way to go

by Robert Nazarian
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The U.S. figures for February were recently released by comScore, one of the leaders in measuring the digital world. Verizon Wireless launched the IPhone on February 10th and Google’s Android continued to roll over the competition even though everyone and their brother thought the marriage of Verizon and Apple would be huge. According to comScore [...]

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Apr

2

2011

Mass lawsuit targets Google, RIM, Apple, HTC and 28 others

by Dustin Karnes
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We’ve seen sweeping patents before, but this may be the first one of this magnitude. According to the patent being defended: A software platform in an Internet Protocol (IP) phone having the ability to be used with different communication infrastructures such as broadband, wireless communication and Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) service. Further, the software [...]

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Mar

25

2011

Android domination of Apple will continue to widen through 2016

by Robert Nazarian
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The global smartphone market will double in size by 2016 and Android will destroy all competition, including Apple. Apple will be the closest competitor, but it won’t be close. According to Ovum, which provides clients with independent and objective analysis to enable them to make better business and technology decisions, Apple will be 20.5% behind [...]

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Mar

24

2011

“If you don’t have an iPhone, you don’t have…wait? What? They DO have that?”

by Andrew Greenfield
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. . I’m sure many of you have seen Apple’s newest ad campaign, “If you don’t have an iPhone, well, you don’t have an iPhone.” While watching these commercials I’m sure many of you have been distressed about the fact that you don’t have the iBook application and are therefore unable to read any sort [...]

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Mar

23

2011

Motorola replacing Android with own Web-based OS?

by Jesse Bauer
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A new article put out by informationweek suggests that Motorola may be working on a new ‘web-based’ operating system of their own rather than continuing on with Android OS for their mobile devices. The article points out that Motorola has been on a ‘hiring spree’ so to speak bringing on employees with a significant amount [...]

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Mar

22

2011

Amazon Appstore Results in Lawsuit from Apple

by Michael Murphy
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Amazon launched its Android Appstore today, giving Android owners another avenue for purchasing/downloading apps. While the pros and cons of this third-party market solution can be debated (and likely will) at great length, here’s something we didn’t see coming, although we probably should have: Apple is breaking out the gavel, crying “foul.”

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