Android over 50% of smartphone sales as Nokia and RIM feel strain
Android continued its relentless march on the mobile market in the first quarter of 2012, making up 56% of world smartphone shipments as that sector grew by 44.7% to 144.4m, even while the overall world market for mobile phones shrank by 2% year-on-year to 419m, according to new data from research company Gartner. A year ago Android
Whos using mobile maps and check-ins -- and whos not?
According to a new survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, three-quarters of U.S. adults who own smartphones use those devices to get some kind of real-time location-based information -- from maps and directions all the way to cutting-edge features like Yelp's Monocle augmented-reality view.
HTC shares tumble as patent case delays U.S. sales
U.S. sales of two new smartphones from Taiwan's HTC Corp will be delayed due to a patent dispute with Apple Inc, a fresh blow to the company as it tries to turn around declining sales in what was once its largest market. Shares in HTC tumbled more than 6 percent after it said shipments of the phones were being held up by U.S. customs
Gameloft sees faster growth from second quarter on new launches
Mobile video game group Gameloft expects growth to speed up from the second quarter of 2012 as it launches a record number of smartphone games based on a money-making model which allows it to double a game's revenue over its lifespan. The French company expects sales to reach 192 million euros ($248.52 million) in 2012, compared with
Googles Android gains share in smartphones-survey
Google's Android smartphone software stretched its market lead in early 2012, helped by new models from handset makers like Samsung and HTC and piling the pressure on rivals like Research In Motion and Nokia. Research from Kantar WorldPanel on Tuesday showed Android gaining share strongly in most of seven major markets - Australia,
Hands on with Pebble smartwatch, the most successful Kickstarter project ever
In the big scheme of consumer electronics, smartwatches can't match smartphones, tablets, or even ultrabooks in piquing public curiosity. And glancing at a photo of the Pebble smartwatch, you wouldn't notice anything too different or special about it -- it looks like an understated digital
Samsung unwraps latest Galaxy rival to iPhone
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) unveiled a new top-of-the-range Galaxy smartphone in London on Thursday, updating the most direct rival to Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone with a larger touch screen and more powerful processor. The South Korean technology group, which overtook Finnish company Nokia (NOK1V.HE) as the world's biggest cellphone maker
Samsung unveils Galaxy S III smartphone with face, voice recognition
Samsung has launched its Galaxy S III smartphone, which it hopes will help solidify the company as the leading challenger to Apple and its iPhone 4S. The new handset, with a whopping 4.8-inch screen and an 8-megapixel camera, was unveiled at a slick launch party in London on Thursday, complete
In a Samsung Galaxy far, far away ... will Android still rule?
Samsung Electronics is the world's largest smartphone manufacturer and biggest user of Google's Android operating system. And, for some, that's the problem. Samsung's meteoric rise - in the first quarter of 2011 it shipped fewer smartphones than Apple, Nokia or Research in Motion, but is now market leader - has handed it a dilemma.
Samsung and Apple now have more than 50% of phone market, says IDC
Samsung and Apple are eating up the smartphone market - which, in turn, is increasingly eating up the mobile phone market, according to new figures released by the research company IDC. In the first quarter of 2012, the two companies' joint share of the smartphone market edged past 50% for the first time, to 53.3%, as the smartphone
RIM BlackBerry 10 prototype fails to wow investors
Research In Motion Ltd gave developers a glimpse at its next-generation BlackBerry 10 smartphone on Tuesday and a set of software tools to create flashy apps to run on its new operating system, but investors were unimpressed and RIM's shares tumbled. At RIM's annual BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, new CEO Thorsten Heins took
Boot up: Iranian hacking, RIMs failure?, game theory in games, BYOD v money, and more
A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamMotorola's mobile device unit accounted for 71 percent of its total sales, marking a boom in its smartphone and tablet business. The company did not disclose how many tablets it sold during the quarter. Boosted by the Droid Razr and the Droid Razr Maxx, which
Apple and Samsung to discuss putting an end to lawsuits
Apple chief executive Tim Cook will meet his opposite number at Samsung, Gee-Sung Choi, to discuss ending their bitter litigation over smartphones and tablets, which has become a globe-spanning war taking in 50 lawsuits in 10 countries. But the summit, on 21 May, is not the result of an olive branch held out by either side. Instead, it is
Samsung outstrips iPhone sales to ring up record profit
A surge in Galaxy smartphone sales fuelled earnings at Samsung Electronics to a record high in the first quarter, usually a tough season for the global consumer electronics industry, outshining handset rivals such as Nokia. Samsung sold more smartphones in the first three months of the year than Apple and raked in more than 70% of its
Apps Rush: LinkedIn, Frankenstein, O2 Wallet, Dell, The Dictator, One Direction, DC Nation and more
Business social network LinkedIn has launched its official iPad app, which is very impressive indeed. It's much more than a blown-up version of the company's existing smartphone app, aimed at 'coffee and couch' habits of people using their iPads in the mornings and evenings. The most useful feature: synchronisation with the iPad calendar
Galaxy phones power Samsung to record $5.2 billion profit
Samsung Electronics posted a record $5.2 billion quarterly profit as it shifted over 20,000 Galaxy smartphones an hour in January-March, outselling Apple's iPhone in a duel for the lucrative high end of the mobile industry. Chairman Lee Kun-hee's South Korean group, whose $190 billion market value is 11 times that of Japanese rival Sony
Googles Schmidt set to testify in smartphone trial
Google's former chief executive, Eric Schmidt, is slated to testify on Tuesday as Oracle's final witness in the first part of a high stakes trial over smartphone technology, attorneys said in court. Oracle sued Google in August 2010, saying Google's Android mobile operating system infringes its copyrights and patents for the Java
Nokias dismal numbers: is Windows Phone a bust?
Oh, Nokia. The red ink is pouring all over the place. The first-quarter 2012 results (PDF) show that not only did smartphone sales decline (to 11.9m units from 24.2m a year ago, and 19.6m in the previous quarter) but so did mobile phone sales (70.8m, down from 84.3m a year ago, and 93.9m in the typically higher Christmas quarter). Windows
