iOS-friendly Good Technology profiled as "BlackBerry-Killer" invading enterprise

Good Technology is "stealthily stealing BlackBerry's enterprise clients with a simple pitch" that offers companies a secure path to accommodate Bring Your Own Device policies, a movement that has ushered Apple into corporate markets.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 21

Google Play Newsstand launches on Android, coming to Apple's iOS in 2014

Android on Wednesday received its counterpart to Apple's own iOS Newsstand in the form of Google Play Newsstand, a news and magazine subscription hub that will also arrive on iPhone and iPad in 2014.

AppleInsider Staff 12 years ago 49

LG's Smart TV watches you: spyware ads report your behavior in creepy detail

"Smart TVs" are bringing PC-style spyware and banner ads to the living room, collecting detailed logs of data that include every time the channel is changed and the names of every media file watched. In the case of sets from LG, data is being sent to the factory unencrypted, even after users attempt to turn the data collection off.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 76

Android-based TV sticks activate as tablets, prove popular for bootleg videos in Asia

Android-based USB and HDMI TV sticks that incorrectly activate as tablets have proven popular in Asia, where they are reportedly used to pirate video content — and could be inaccurately skewing Android's tablet market share at the cost of Apple's iPad.

Neil Hughes 12 years ago 78

Apple's iOS App Store still handily trumps Google & Amazon offerings in new analysis

Apple's iOS platform is widely considered to have the best mobile application ecosystem, and a new analysis of the App Store comparing it to Google Play for Android and the Amazon Appstore for Kindle Fire supports the notion that Apple remains head and shoulders above the competition.

Neil Hughes 12 years ago 20

The curious case of IDC, Gartner & Strategy Analytics' PC, phone & tablet data on Apple

Every quarter, the tech world's market research firms release metrics on how many PCs, phones and tablets Apple reported selling and compare these to estimates of what the rest of the world produced, resulting in headlines that minimize the importance of the world's largest and most profitable company. You might wonder why.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 215

Pfizer transitioning 'huge' number of BlackBerry-using employees to iPhone & Android

With a belief that Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry is in its death throes, major corporations and organizations continue to transition their employees away from the platform, with the latest discontinuation coming from pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

Neil Hughes 12 years ago 38

IDC data shows 66% of Android's 81% smartphone share are junk phones selling for $215

IDC reported 251.1 million smartphone shipments for Q3, reflecting 40 percent year over year market growth but an implosion in Average Selling Prices, at least outside of Apple's iPhone sales.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 180

Apple Maps took around 80 percent of Google Maps' iOS traffic in one year

One year after the release of Apple's own iOS 6 mapping service, user data continues to show a precipitous decline in Google Maps among iOS users.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 223

Apple scores back to back wins vs. Google's Motorola in German, ITC patent cases

Apple gained two favorable court decisions in its patent battles with Google's Motorola subsidiary today, one in Germany and other at the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 71

Samsung tempers expectations for a 64-bit Android answer to Apple's A7

Samsung sought to assuage its investors' concerns about increasingly intense competition with Apple and the cooling market for premium Android smartphones, outlining a specs race that described a future with 64-bit Exynos chips, super high resolution mobile displays and a new focus on software.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 172

Apple's iOS takes phone sales share in US, Australia prior to iPhone 5s launch

Apple's share of smartphone sales through the September quarter nudged up 1.3 percentage points in the U.S., 2.2 points in Latin America, and a dramatic 7 points in Australia, while slipping 6.4 points in China and losing 2.3 points across Western Europe.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 17

Google unveils new Nexus 5 with M7-like motion tracker, Android 4.4 KitKat

At a Friday event in San Francisco, Google took the covers off their newest Nexus-series handset and unwrapped the next version of Android, version 4.4, or "KitKat."

Shane Cole 12 years ago 131

BlackBerry begins rolling out BBM for Apple's iPhone

Beleaguered device maker BlackBerry on Monday announced that its popular messaging platform — BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM — is now officially available for iOS and Android, five months after it was first revealed.

Shane Cole 12 years ago 20

The mysterious failure of Apple's iPhone 5c

Less than a month after it first went on sale, Apple's refreshed, moderately enhanced iPhone 5c has been targeted as possibly being a failure in scores of reports across a wide variety of major news outlets, even drawing comparisons to Microsoft's Surface flop. Can the company survive another 48 hours?

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