Android up 13%, iOS down 7%, BlackBerry down 81% … and Windows Phone up a massive 52%

The mobile operating system market share numbers are in for Kantar Worldpanel's last quarter, and the numbers are shocking.

eRecyclingCorps swaps 10 million old phones for new

1.7 billion people got a new handset last year. What happens to the old ones? Seven million of them were reused and renewed by eRecyclingCorps. “If subsidies are the drugs of the mobile industry, then incentivized device recycling is the methadone,” says Dave Edmondson, CEO of eRecyclingCorps.

Buy your next smartphone at…Blockbuster?

With streaming media websites like Netflix and iTunes virtually wiping out Main Street's DVD rental stores, Dish Network has found an alternative use for Blockbuster, the chain it acquired last year.

Apple is close to becoming the most valuable public company in the world

Apple briefly overtook Exxon today as the most valuable public company in the world. That’s a big milestone in the larger world of computing, and it is a sign that the digital economy is becoming more important in some ways …