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Why Android isn't gaining on Apple in the Enterprise

In the consumer market, Apple's iOS and Android's licensees have engaged in a consumer tug of war over sales. Among enterprise buyers however, Apple has maintained extensive lead that is only strengthening.

Daniel Eran Dilger 14 years ago 86

Wisconsin uses Microsoft settlement funds to buy iPads for schools

The capital of Wisconsin is buying 600 iPads this spring and plans to buy another 800 this fall, all paid for using funds from the state's settlement with Microsoft related to consumer lawsuits claiming the company overcharged customers for its software.

Daniel Eran Dilger 14 years ago 64

EFF working to keep iPhone, iPad 'jailbreaking' legal in US

An exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that has made iPhone "jailbreaking" legal is set to expire, and a digital rights advocacy group hopes the U.S. government will renew and expand that exemption.

Neil Hughes 14 years ago 68

App Store sales result in average revenue gains of 19% for iPad, 22% for iPhone

App publishers on Apple's App Store typically see a significant first-day revenue jump of 52 percent for iPad apps and 41 percent for iPhone apps and and 19 percent and 22 percent overall, respectively, when they put their software on sale, according to a new analysis.

Josh Ong 14 years ago 2

Motorola posts $80M quarterly loss, sells only 200K tablets

Motorola Mobility's fiscal year ended on a sour note with poor tablet and smartphone sales leading to a Q4 2011 loss of $80 million, which was further exacerbated by merger costs associated with a planned Google takeover.

Mikey Campbell 14 years ago 50

Apple maintains dominance of global tablet market with 58% share in Q4 2011

Shipments of 15.4 million iPads in the fourth quarter of calendar 2011 gave Apple a commanding 58 percent of the market, while Amazon's Kindle Fire helped heat up Android tablet shipments to a record 39 percent, according to one analysis.

Josh Ong 14 years ago 74

Former executives accuse Apple of ignoring supplier labor abuses

A new report quotes former Apple executives as saying that the company has known about some "labor abuses" in supplier factories for years without requiring that they be addressed.

Josh Ong 14 years ago 93

iPad takes 96% of tablets, iPhone 53% of phones in Good mobile enterprise study

Enterprise mobile services vendor Good Technology reported that iPad accounted for 96 percent of tablets and iPhone 53 percent of smartphones activated by the more than 2,000 companies using its services in the fourth quarter, giving iOS a 71 percent share of all mobile devices.

Daniel Eran Dilger 14 years ago 34

Foxconn gets Brazil tax breaks, looks to start iPad production

The Brazilian government has approved tax reductions or exemptions pertaining to tablet production that will allow Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn to start iPad production in the country.

Mikey Campbell 14 years ago 7

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