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Google and Apple duke it out over apps

January 31, 2011

The success of the Apple App Store is proving difficult to duplicate for other companies, and Google is beginning to cast about for new and better ideas for getting Android apps built for Android handsets.

Microsoft ready to sell in the Apple Mac App Store?

January 28, 2011

Although it would seem at first to make for strange bedfellows, the rumor that Microsoft is preparing to sell software in the Apple Mac App Store makes a great deal of sense for everyone involved.

Motorola frets about the iPhones 4 and 5

January 27, 2011

It’s just been two weeks since Verizon announced that it would be selling the iPhone, and already Motorola is feeling the pressure of the Apple handset, with smartphone sales on Verizon down enough to notice.

iPad, iPhone, other mobile app revenues to be $15B in 2011

January 26, 2011

Gartner Research has done what they do best, which is gaze into their crystal ball and get good answers, and can not tell us that Apple’s mobile app revenue in 2011 will be at least $15 billion.

Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 5 to have NFC

January 26, 2011

The closer we get to the production dates of Apple’s new mobile products, the iPad 2 and the iPad 5, the more likely it seems that both will come with nifty NFC point-of-purchase functionality.

Will Schmidt stepping down change the Google-Apple conflict?

January 24, 2011

With Eric Schmidt hanging up his CEO hat and passing the reins to Larry Page, will there be any differences in the relationship (and the level of competition) between Apple and Google?

Apple patent to usher in App Store app sharing

January 21, 2011

Apple, intent upon making it easier for users to buy iPhone and iPad apps that they see on the devices of other users, got a patent in 2009 that could help users share apps with other iPhone and iPad users.

iPhone 5, iPad 2 to come with features to battle Facebook

January 20, 2011

Some new tech buried in the iOS4 operating system make it appear that the next iPhone and iPad will come preloaded with some social networking tools designed to carry the good fight to Facebook.

Apple profits take sting out of Steve Jobs health

January 19, 2011

Even though the two events took place too close together to have any real cause-and-effect meaning, Apples reports of record earnings yesterday helped take the sting out of Steve Jobs medical leave.

Apple iPad has 90% share of tablet market

January 18, 2011

If you ever find yourself wondering how much of the tablet computer marketplace has been locked up by the Apple iPad, you can stop thinking about it. The iPad still had a 90 percent share during the last quarter.


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