Android Now Has 25 Percent of the Mobile US Web Market
Quantcast has just released its latest mobile web share
numbers, and it's looking good for Google's Android
operating system. Android has seen its greatest gains since
November 2009, and now captures 25% of the mobile Internet,
a 17% jump from this time last year.
Rumored Google Tablet Raises Chrome vs. Android Question
Well, there's little doubt that tablets running Google's
Chrome operating system are coming soon--the only question
is when. A new rumor courtesy of tech news site Download
Squad suggests that Google is teaming up with Verizon
Wireless and HTC to launch a Chrome OS tablet on November
26, which not coincidentally happens to be Black Friday.
Microsoft Outlines Commitment to the Future of Enterprise Handheld Devices
Press Release from MS:
Why Android App Security Is Better Than for the iPhone
Application security has become the focus of a flurry of
intense attention in the mobile world lately, due largely to
a few well-publicized events affecting each of the major
platforms.
Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S.
Sales of Google Android phones in the U.S. are rising so
quickly, the devices have outsold Apple handsets for the
first time on record. New smartphone subscribers choosing
Google phones accounted for 27 percent of U.S. smartphone
sales, the Nielsen Company will announce this morning,
nudging past the 23 percent share held by Apple. But Android
isn’t just a U.S. phenomenon: Canalys today estimates that
Android handset sales grew 886 percent worldwide from the
year ago quarter.
Making the Case for a Microsoft Phone
Should Microsoft build a phone of its own? Over at Ars
Technica, Peter Bright is arguing that it should. The case
is pretty straightforward: The iPhone is as good as it is in
large part because Apple designed (in Steve Jobs’ famous
words) “the whole widget”–the hardware, the software,
and the service. Same thing with the Xbox 360, Microsoft’s
best and most successful hardware product to date.
Windows Phone 7 misses big-business support tools
Microsoft's re-reinvention of Windows Mobile risks hurting
Windows Phone 7's widespread adoption by large companies.
Microsoft's expanded ARM alliance shakes up market
The emergence of new classes of mobile devices such as
tablets and cloudbooks has created two important stand-offs
- between Windows and Linux, especially Android; and between
Intel's x86 processor architecture and ARM's. The waters
muddied considerably when Intel targeted its Atom low power
platform at Linux as well as its traditional ally Microsoft,
even creating its own Linux-based OS with Nokia, MeeGo. That
still left Microsoft largely tied to Intel processors, but
with declining influence over them - and the Windows giant
has hit back at last, signing up for a broad-ranging
architectural license with ARM.
Sales of Google Android phones soar 350% in UK in first three months of 2010
Sales of Google’s Android-based phones have sky-rocketed
in the UK over the past three months according to new
figures.
Why Android Will Overtake iPhone
The question is not whether sales of Google Android
smartphones will overtake Apple’s iPhone, but when.
AdMob’s Brendon Kraham has just predicted that Android
users will outnumber iPhone users by the end of this year,
though that seems unlikely to me. Still, the trend is clear.
Gartner’s numbers for this year’s first quarter showed
Android jumping from 1.6 per cent to 9.6 per cent of the
market, with the iPhone on 15.4 per cent; ComScore’s
latest US research shows Android gaining four percentage
points to 13 per cent and the iPhone dropping a point to
24.4 per cent. Android has momentum.
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