Apple’s iPad powers Black Friday mobile shopping bonanza (infographic)

Holiday shoppers didn't totally forgo long lines and early call times on Black Friday, but they did grab their smartphones and iPads to help them navigate to the best destinations, online or off.

Christmas for ‘u’ and ‘i’: Kids want iPads, iPods, iPhones … and a Wii U

Wondering what to get that kid on your Christmas list? Wonder no more, the answer is easy. But warm up the credit cards -- it is going to put a massive dent in your finances.

1,000,000 apps have been created for iOS (but Android is in hot pursuit)

According to social app discovery company Appsfire, today is the day that marks the one million apps have been created for Apple's app store.

iPad Mini: All big tablets, please go home (review)

How can an iPad that's slower than its predecessors be fantastic? It's all about size and convenience.

App developers: Mopub report shows you how to maximize ad revenues

If you want to maximize ad revenue in your mobile app, develop for iPhone, allow rich media ads, pass keywords to advertisers about content and users, and focus on health, news, entertainment, and fitness segments.

Apple and Microsoft could make 600% more from Android than Google in 2013

Google's mobile operating system Android may be winning the smartphone wars, with over 75 percent market share, but Apple and Microsoft could be making more from Android than Google -- up to 600 percent more next year.

Analyst: iPad will dip below 50% tablet market share in mid-2013

Android smartphones have already taken the sales crown with 75 percent share and 57 million shipped by Samsung alone last quarter. It seems that the tablet market will soon follow suit.

Apple to get $6-8 for each HTC Android phone sold — is Samsung next?

A few hundred million more or less from HTC is pocket change for the Cupertino giant that expects to earn $52 billion in the next quarter alone. Samsung, on the other hand, sold 57 million smartphones in the last quarter.

Samsung reportedly jacking up Apple’s costs for iPhone and iPad processors by 20 percent

Frankly, if you are Samsung, why wouldn't you raise Apple's prices? A price increase could be simply a bargaining chip in an attempt to reach a settlement, or it could be Samsung's way of recouping the billion-plus dollars it is obligated to pay Apple.

iPad is king of mobile web traffic, plus more intriguing data from OnSwipe

Apple's tablet continues to dominate when it comes to the mobile web.

Microsoft’s Surface RT is more profitable than iPad (theoretically)

Unit for unit, could Microsoft's Surface tablet be more profitable than Apple's iPad? iSuppli certainly thinks so.

Newvem unveils first-ever iPhone app for managing Amazon cloud services

Cloud Smart Meter shows IT managers, CIOs, and developers what they're using, how much they're spending, and what's currently not working -- or might be about to go down.

iPhone’s app download share falls below 30%, but iPads have 5X the downloads of Android tabs

According to a just-released study from London-based ABI Research, iPhone had only 29 percent of app downloads in the second quarter of 2012, compared to 47 percent for Android.

Apple is mum on iPad mini sales, sells 3M new iPads in 3 days

Apple sold three million of its newest iPads this past weekend, but it did not break out how many iPad minis it sold.