Google is reportedly scrambling to deliver the next version of Android for both smartphones and tablets to ensure that iPhone 5 doesn’t appear on the market first and without a competitive response from its licensees. Google shipped Android 2.2 Froyo to its smartphone licensees last year just prior to iOS 4, following up with a 2.3 Gingerbread release in December that incorporated support for NFC tags, improved copy and paste, and the company’s WebM video [...]
“Give me a five minute headstart,” says the Samsung Galaxy S2. “Okay, but I’ll catch up to you in six,” beams the iPhone 5 as it laces up its shoes and begins stretching. “Fine, I just want a moment in the sun before you take over,” admits the S2. And so goes the next month or two of the smartphone universe. Android phones like the Droid Bionic and the Galaxy S2 want the spotlight and [...]
Apple Inc. steamrolled through growing competition from smartphones and tablets running onGoogle Inc.’s Android operating system, as the company more than doubled its quarterly earnings and posted surging revenues on strong sales of its iPhone and iPad. Apple’s quarterly profit rose to $7.31 billion for its fiscal third quarter, up from $3.25 billion a year earlier. Revenue soared 82% to $28.57 billion. Gross margins rose to 41.7% from 39.1% a year ago. The results fueled a spike [...]
The popularity of Android devices has grown exponentially over the last year or so among both users and developers, but the Verizon iPhone and iPad 2 may be bringing iOS back to the forefront of their attention, according to a new report from Flurry Analytics. The mobile analytics firm looked at the 90,000 applications that make use of Flurry’s SDK to see where the new projects are taking place, and found that developer attention to Android [...]
TOKYO, JAPAN: Nobot Inc, which administers the Ad Network “AdMaker” for smartphones, has released a survey study for iPhone and Android users in March. With the increase of iPhones and Android-equipped devices in Japan, it is thought that the number of Smartphone users is growing large. In order for us to create smartphone applications and implement a market for advertising, it is imperative that we achieve an understanding of our user demographic. From now on, [...]
Apple has sliced rates for its iAd mobile advertising platform by as much as 70 per cent as big name clients depart for rival ad platforms, according to a report citing two people with knowledge of the matter. Bloomberg reports that the likes of Citigroup and JC Penney – which paid $1m or more to run campaigns on iAd when the platform launched – are no longer advertising on the platform, and that Apple is now [...]
The fate of a Google+ app for iPhone users is now in the hands of Steve Jobs. “For my iPhone using friends: the Google+ iPhone app has been submitted to the App store (no not today, sometime prior to today) and is awaiting approval,” Google employee Erica Joy posted on her Google+ account. Joy later said the submission also included an iPad app. In a blog post introducing Google+, Google said last week that an [...]
