Thanks to the iPhone 4S’ huge sales, Apple’s mega-popular iOS App Store reached an all-time high in November for free downloads coming from the Top 200 apps, according to marketing firm Fiksu.
In retrospect, it’s not terribly surprising when you …
$1.2 billion. That’s how much HP paid for Palm last year, and it’s also how much the company was trying to sell its Palm assets for over the latter half of 2011, VentureBeat has learned.
As baffling as it may …
Android devices more than doubled their typical activation rate over the Christmas weekend, with 3.7 million devices activated, according to Google’s Andy Rubin.
The holiday bump, while not surprising, is yet another reminder of Android’s unstoppable growth. Last week, Rubin …
Indicating yet again that 2012 is going to be a big year for Windows Phone, details have emerged about Microsoft’s plans for its upcoming Tango and Apollo updates.
Tango, an update which will focus on delivering “products with the best …
Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform now has more than 50,000 apps available — a significant milestone, but one that still puts it far behind Apple’s 500,000 iOS apps and Google’s more than 380,000 Android apps.
At least things seem to be …
It looks like owners of Samsung’s first Galaxy S devices didn’t take too kindly to the news that Android 4.0 won’t be made available as an upgrade.
Thanks to the massive outcry from customers, Samsung is now apparently reconsidering making …
Sorry, Boxee faithful, you won’t be getting any more updates on your computers after the release of Boxee 1.5.
The media streaming software company will be shifting its focus entirely to connected TV devices, tablets and smartphones, it announced yesterday …
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Fueled by disruption on several fronts, 2012 will see some major mobile industry consolidation, as well as mobile VoIP services’ lasting impact on carriers and more options on data pricing plans for consumers.
Over the course of 2011, the mobile …
The U.S. and China currently have the world’s largest potential smartphone and tablet markets, but many other countries are ripe for wider smart-device adoption in 2012.
Flurry, a mobile analytics company, has crunched numbers from the past month to paint …
Owners of Samsung’s first lineup of Galaxy S phones are in for some bitter news this morning, as the company has confirmed that the phones won’t be receiving an update to Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich.”
Samsung pointed to its …
Apple could ship an unprecedented 30.3 million iPhone units during the final quarter of 2011, according to an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group.
Susquehanna appears to be falling in line with UBS analyst Maynard Um’s prediction a few weeks ago …
Research in Motion has become the mobile industry’s punching bag lately and today is no exception, with a new report saying its upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS is all-around awful.
A new report from Boy Genius Report asserts that the upcoming …
Looking to make a splash in the US smartphone market, Sony Ericsson is gearing up to release a new superphone that will outmatch Google’s flagship Galaxy Nexus.
The phone, currently referred to as the Sony Ericsson LT28at (expect a better …
Amazon wasn’t the only company interested in snapping up BlackBerry maker Research in Motion.
Microsoft and Nokia, now close partners thanks to Nokia’s adoption of Windows Phone 7, also considered a joint bid for RIM, the Wall Street Journal reports. …
The dust is settling from yesterday’s news that AT&T has given up its T-Mobile acquisition plans, and it turns out even a failed merger is quite expensive.
Because its proposed $39 billion merger fell through, AT&T now has to give …
This holiday season, mobile gamers will get a chance to do something they’ve never been able to do: play console games on smartphones and tablets.
Last week OnLive – the cloud-gaming company which streams games rather than playing them natively …
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Once again, Research in Motion’s attitude towards its dismal quarterly earnings sound inexplicably positive.
For the third quarter of 2011, RIM reported profits of just $265 million on $5.2 billion in revenue. That’s down from $329 million last quarter and …
Now Android users will have an even better sense of just how much precious bandwidth their apps are using.
Onavo, a company known for its iPhone app that compress mobile data, has upgraded its Android app today with a new …
The holidays are supposed to be joyous, but they’re mostly a stressful time full of rich meals, grueling travel and over-commitment. It’s easy to neglect our personal health, or let an exercise regime lapse, when we’re busy and its cold …
Confirming not-so-secret rumors, T-Mobile announced today that it will offer Nokia’s Lumia 710 Windows Phone, making it the first U.S. carrier to offer Nokia’s new line of smartphones.
The Lumia 710 will be available on T-Mobile on January 11 for …
