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Oct

6

2011

comScore number are in: Google and Samsung continue to dominate

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by Robert Nazarian
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It’s that time of the month again when comScore releases their report on mobile subscriber market share for smartphones in the U.S. Things haven’t changed much from last months report in which Android and Samsung dominated. For the 3-months ended August 2011, Google’s Android OS represented 43.7% of the market which is up 5.6% from [...]

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Sep

13

2011

Android rises to #2 in the EU5

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by Jim Farmer
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The July report from comScore is in and Android market share more than doubled. Since this past July, 1in 4 smartphone users in the EU5 were using an Android platform. Of Android manufacturers, HTC had the most share followed by Samsung. “Smartphone adoption has seen significant growth from the previous year, driven in large part [...]

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Aug

25

2011

Microsoft Lync Coming To Android

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by Jim Farmer
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Coming to us from TechED in New Zealand, Microsoft is showing off a Lync client for mobile. If you are unfamiliar, Lync is a powerful unified communications system utilized by many businesses. It’s somewhat like an overpowered Windows Live Messenger, but again, intended for business.  The surprising news here is that Microsoft is making their [...]

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Aug

5

2011

Android Now at 40% of Smartphone Share

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by Dustin Karnes
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We all know Android is growing; there’s no denying the numbers. Just like there’s no denying that Apple has a large share, RIM is dying, and Windows Phone is off somewhere by the fence huffing spraypaint. In the latest mobile subscriber number results from comScore, Android has now gobbled up a whopping 40 percent of [...]

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Aug

2

2011

PhoneGap 1.0 Released, Allows Devs To Create Apps For Multiple Platforms With Ease (Video)

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by Joe Sirianni
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Are you a developer and want one of the most coveted Swiss Army’s knives you can find?  Look no further as PhoneGap 1.0 is now available for dev’s looking to get their application working on as many OS’s as possible in the least amount of time necessary.  Time = money for a developer and there’s [...]

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Jul

17

2011

Android top of Mobile OS usage for 7th straight month

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by Dustin Karnes
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According to the latest mobile mix report from Millenial, Android is *still* on top of mobile OS usage – for the 7th straight month in a row. That’s right, folks… 2011 has been the year for Android, and it’s showing no signs of letting up. With a whopping 54% of the mobile OS share, that’s [...]

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Apr

12

2011

Layar 5.0 for Android available now – adds facebook and twitter sharing functionality

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by Jesse Bauer
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Layar is a popular app that makes looking for information around you fun and intuitive by providing an augmented reality browsing experience. There are over 2,000 layars to choose from now within the app, and they’ve recently added some animation to the 3D objects, as well as Twitter and facebook functionality for sharing those gems [...]

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Mar

25

2011

Android domination of Apple will continue to widen through 2016

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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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Feb

11

2011

Nokia Announces “Strategic Partnership” with Microsoft

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by Brian Rubin
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Yesterday, our own Michael Murphy wrote about speculation as to what Nokia’s next OS would be, seeing their choices as either Android or Windows OS. Well, today per a press release from the cell phone giant, Nokia made it official…they’re partnering with Microsoft to create a “a new global mobile ecosystem”.

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Jan

31

2011

Android sold more handsets in Q4 2010 than Nokia’s Symbian

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by Jesse Bauer
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For the first time in 10 years, Nokia’s symbian platform was NOT the leader in handsets sales, as Google’s Android took the top spot for Q4 of 2010! Research firm Canalys said on Monday that 32.0 million Android phones were sold, while Symbian devices sold totaled 31 million. A large amount of those sales for [...]

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