Google's Android vs. Apple's iPhone: Battle may set computing future

San Jose Mercury News - Troy Wolverton, Mike Swift - 6 Jun, 2010
The first two of those battles have defined computing over the past 25 years, shaping how consumers use their PCs and how ...

iPhone triples Android in mobile market share

CNET - Jim Dalrymple - 6 Jun, 2010
The battle between Apple and Google in the mobile space has been heating up lately, but new market share numbers from research firm Nielsen ...

Tablet rivalry: For now, it's Android vs. Apple

CNET - Brooke Crothers - 6 Jun, 2010
This year's center-stage rivalry in tablet computers is shaping up as Apple versus Android, according to analysts. ...

Nielsen: iPhone, Android gain on RIM

Fortune - Philip Elmer-DeWitt - ‎Jun 4, 2010‎
The Nielsen Company gave journalists covering Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) a gift Friday -- a PowerPoint presentation packed with interesting data. ...

Appetite for IPhone Continues Undiminished

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Yukari Iwatani Kane - ‎Jun 4, 2010‎
As Apple Inc. gets set to likely unveil a new iPhone on Monday at its Worldwide Developers Conference, new survey results show that ...

Dark Side Arises for Phone Apps

Wall Street Journal - Spencer E. Ante - ‎Jun 4, 2010‎
As smartphones and the applications that run on them take off, businesses and consumers are beginning to confront a budding dark side of ...

Gaming, Facebook Top Most Popular Mobile Apps

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - ‎Jun 3, 2010‎
What apps are you downloading? Across all mobile platforms, users are flocking to gaming apps, followed by news and weather, as well as maps and navigation ...

Why a lack of uniformity could bite Android in the butt

Los Angeles Times - Chris Schreck - ‎Jun 3, 2010‎
“Fragmentation is a concern first and foremost for developers. Differentiating between strains of an OS, modifying code for each strain, and ensuring that a ...

Google sniffs along app store shelves

Register - Bill Ray - ‎Jun 3, 2010‎
Google has expanded its mobile search to encompass online application stores including iTunes and the Android ...

Google adds apps to mobile search

Fortune - Seth Weintraub - ‎Jun 2, 2010‎
Google's mobile search engine on iPhone and Android will now also search the platforms' respective stores. A pretty simple addition to Google's Mobile ...

Smartphones And The Apps Users Install

InformationWeek (blog) - Ed Hansberry - ‎Jun 2, 2010‎
Installing an app on smartphones today is as easy as creating an email or adding an appointment to your calendar. Apple claims to have over 200000 apps in ...

Google edges into the mobile download game

CNET (blog) - Jessica Dolcourt - ‎Jun 2, 2010‎
Google.com now indexes links to apps in the iPhone and Android markets when you search from an Android device or iPhone. ...

WebOS Apps Stand Out, Because There's Less Competition

Wired News - Brian X. Chen - ‎Jun 2, 2010‎
Hungry to earn a buck, many programmers are making apps for the two leading mobile platforms: Apple's App Store and Google's Android OS. ...

Transit Maps in the Palm of Your Hand (No Refolding Required)

New York Times - Bob Tedeschi - ‎Jun 2, 2010‎
In some cities, pulling out a transit map is an open invite to solicitations from panhandlers, swindlers and car services. ...

Facebook, Google Maps reign supreme in mobile market

Los Angeles Times (blog) - ‎Jun 2, 2010‎
Facebook and Google Maps are the most popular smart phone applications, Nielsen found in a recent study. According to the organization, 21% of all wireless ...

This is Android Power

Computerworld (blog) - ‎Jun 2, 2010‎
If there's one word I'd use to describe Google's Android operating system, it's power. Power to customize. Power to multitask. ...

Facebook is top mobile service for smartphone users

Telegraph.co.uk - Emma Barnett - ‎Jun 2, 2010‎
Facebook is the app most popular app with American smartphone owners, according to a report by Nielsen. By Emma Barnett, Digital Media and Technology ...

Android Fragmentation: You Can?t Discuss a Problem if One of the Parties ...

PC World - Harry McCracken - ‎Jun 2, 2010‎
Over at the Android Developers Blog, Android Open Source & Compatibility Program Manager Dan Morrill is saying that “Android fragmentation” is nothing but ...

Andy Rubin expects Android releases to slow down

CNET (blog) - Scott Webster - ‎Jun 1, 2010‎
The Silicon Valley Mercury News recently spent some time speaking with Android founder and Google VP, Andy Rubin where naturally, ...

A sneak peek of the future - Apple iPhone 4G

Manila Bulletin - Jerry Liao - ‎Jun 1, 2010‎
The mobile market got an exciting development just recently with the announcement of Android 2.2 aka Froyo. Very soon, the mobile world will ...

Google Offers More Thoughts On Android Fragmentation

InformationWeek (blog) - Eric Zeman - ‎Jun 1, 2010‎
TechCrunch recently spoke to Google's Andy Rubin. Rubin, of course, is the main man behind the Android platform. Rubin share a number of thoughts with ...

iPhone grew more than Android in May

Fortune - Philip Elmer-DeWitt - ‎Jun 1, 2010‎
The results are summarized in the pie chart at right, which is labeled "Total Market Share," but which actually represents share of visits to the websites ...

iPhone leads Android 3-to-1 in U.S. smartphone market share: Nielsen

Examiner.com - 6 Jun, 2010
Although a recent sales survey by market research firm NPD showed that US sales of Android devices surpassed the iPhone in the first quarter of 2010, ...

iPhone beats Android in OS wars; iPhone, Android users most loyal

PMP Today (blog) - 6 Jun, 2010
The findings of this new study conducted by Nielsen should lay to rest the issue on which mobile OS between the Android and iPhone is the more popular ...

Apple MobileMe could finally become free at WWDC 2010

TechWhack (blog) - 6 Jun, 2010
Online sources are indicating that Apple might make their MobileMe service entirely free for all interested users. The company currently charge on an yearly ...

Android deemed minnow compared to iPhone and BlackBerry

Pocket-lint.com - Stuart Miles - 6 Jun, 2010
The internet might be constantly a flutter with news of the new Android features, handsets, OS updates, and news, but it's failing to make a dent on the big ...

Switched On: Android's shot at TV stardom

Engadget (blog) - Ross Rubin - 6 Jun, 2010
In the short course of about 18 months, Android has gone from an upstart operating system on a single handset to ...

Google planning to launch Google Goggles for Apple iPhone

TechWhack (blog) - 6 Jun, 2010
Google Android users have been able to use an interesting app from the search engine giant. Google Goggles allows you to take photos of items and let the ...

Apple launches iPhone app for Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 attendees

TechWhack (blog) - 6 Jun, 2010
Google had an Android app for anyone who wanted to know more about their recently held Google I/O conference. Apple has now launched the official app for ...

Why Do People Keep Buying Things That I Don't Like?

Enduring Vision (satire) - 6 Jun, 2010
Okay, I've made at least 675 tweets about this in the last 72 hours, but apparently, some of you people just aren't getting me. FAIL. ...

 

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