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Apple iPhone, Google Android Increase Market Share

`Apple's iPhone and Google's Android operating system both saw their market share continue to rise in the second quarter, according to research firm NPD. Apple's iOS saw its market share increase from 28 to 29 percent, while G [...]

Posted On : Aug, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

iPhone 5 release date has Google buying Verizon Droid maker ...

Apple’s mobile strategy for 2011 is straightforward: pick a release date for the iOS 5 based iPhone 5 on Verizon and AT&T (and perhaps Sprint and T-Mobile) along with the iPod touch 5 and iPad 3. But mobile rival Google&rsq [...]

Posted On : Aug, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Can Google Chromebook beat Apple iPad?

The latest Acer and Samsung notebooks running on Google Chrome OS were unveiled at the Google I/O conference earlier this week. But can they beat the iconic iPad? Samsung released the new 12.1 inch notebook that will mainly focus on fa [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Magid: Google's Honeycomb tablets pose challenge to Apple's ...

I started thinking about Android tablets the moment Apple (AAPL) introduced the iPad back in January 2010. After all, if Apple could find a way to make its wildly successful iPhone operating system work on a larger device, it seemed only [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch gets Google Translate app

AppleGoogle Translate, software that translates words and phrases into over 50 languages, is now available for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. Users of handsets based on Google’s Android operating system have long been using G [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Google Android widens lead on Apple's iPhone in US smartphon...

According to a comScore report released Monday, smartphone ownership in the US grew 60 percent year over year to 63.2 million owners in the three months ending in December 2010. Google saw the biggest gains, climbing within several point [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Google Honeycomb vs Apple iPad

Yesterday Google unveiled Honeycomb, the Android OS designed specifically for tablets. Since Apple has had very few real competitors in the tablet market after they launched their iPad last year, it’s going to be interesting to see [...]

Posted On : Feb, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

On Google in 2010, gaga for Apple's iPad, iPhone

Today: Apple's iPad and iPhone 4 dominated consumer electronics searches on Google this year. Plus: Factual wins $25 million from a "superstar" investor lineup including Andreessen Horowitz.Google Zeitgeist: Gaga for Apple& [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Google slams Apple over iPhone ad ban

The latest brouhaha between the two rivals stems from new language in the terms iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad developers must agree to. Ad analytics collection is prohibited unless it is "provided to an independent advertising service [...]

Posted On : Jun, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Google Planning On Competing More Aggressively With Apple's ...

A few weeks ago, rumors started to surface reporting that Google is planning to produce a smartphone. Not simply an Android OS based phone with some control from Google, like the Droid phone, but a Google branded phone. Today, Gizmodo added [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

Apple IPhone App Market Beats the Pants Off Google Android M...

GigaOm's Om Malik stirred the pot when he used data from AdMob to conclude there are $200 million worth of applications sold in Apple's iPhone App Store every month. That would make it a $2.4 billion-per-year business, the largest mobile a [...]