iOS phone share growing faster than Android in US, UK and France

New data from Kantar Worldpanel shows year over year market share gains by iOS in the United States, Great Britain and France, despite a seasonal shift that's returned Android to a majority share in the U.S.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 71

Google appears ready to ditch Android over its intellectual property issues

The discovery that Google's new Chromecast web streaming device is based on Google TV code stripped of Android features provides additional evidence that Google is working to distance itself from the Android platform that the company developed under the management of Andy Rubin.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 143

First malware in the wild found exploiting Bluebox's Android app signing flaw

Just three weeks after Bluebox Security first announced the discovery of a key flaw in Google's Android with the potential to turn devices into a "zombie botnet," Symantec has reported finding rogue apps that take advantage of the vulnerability.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 124

Apple's iOS maintains dominance over Android with 63% mobile browsing share

New mobile Web browsing data shows that iOS users remain far more active on the Internet than their Android counterparts, with Apple's devices accounting for nearly two-thirds of all domestic mobile website traffic.

Michael Harper 12 years ago 28

Samsung launches its own "WWDC" as an alternative to Google IO

Samsung will host its own developer conference this October in San Francisco, promoting its own Software Development Kits and tools rather than simply remaining a passive licensee of Google's Android and Chrome OS.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 67

After acquisition by Apple, HopStop drops support for Windows Phone

HopStop, the transit navigation app Apple acquired last Friday, dropped support for Windows Phone over the weekend, leaving users of the platform miffed.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 30

iPhone users pay average of 19 cents per app, Android users pay just 6 cents

The dominance of free mobile applications continues to grow, as a new study reveals that iPhone users spend an average of 19 cents per app downloaded, while Android users spend only 6 cents per download.

Michael Harper 12 years ago 25

Editorial: Google's Android haunted by Steve Jobs' warnings on app signing security

In May 2007, I interviewed Steve Jobs on the subject of native apps for the iPhone months before the new phone first went on sale. Six years later, his answers are now haunting Google's rival Android platform because the search giant has failed to heed the advice leaking from the top of Apple's ship.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 194

T-Mobile launch helps iPhone cut Android lead in US by 3.5%

Thanks in part to the launch of the iPhone on T-Mobile's network, Apple's iOS platform stepped closer to Google's Android in market share over the past three months, according to a new report.

Kevin Bostic 12 years ago 28

Samsung's "free" Jay Z album delivered via Android spyware app

In a promotion for its Galaxy phones, Samsung announced it would deliver a million free copies of Brooklyn rapper Jay Z's new album days before its official release. But it did so using a spyware Android app designed to track your location and harvest phone numbers you call, your device ID and which apps you use.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 89

Security flaw opens all modern Android devices to "zombie botnet" takeover [u]

A newly discovered flaw in Google's Android security model enables rogue apps to gain full access to the Android system and all installed apps, read all data on the device, harvest passwords and create a botnet of "always-on, always-connected and always-moving" spy devices tracking users' location while secretly recording.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 276

Most popular Android app caught harvesting users contacts: Facebook

Facebook, the top-ranking free app in Google Play, has taken advantage of Android's weak platform security to collect users' phone numbers as soon as the app is installed, highlighting core differences in Apple's approach to protecting users' privacy and those of social-advertising firms like Facebook and Google.

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 73

Editorial: Can Apple survive 2013?

Given the recent implosions of BlackBerry, Palm, Nokia, Microsoft, can we safely assume that Apple is next and will likely fail before the year is out, simply because, well… Android?

Daniel Eran Dilger 12 years ago 273

Apple holds 39% of US smartphone market, far ahead of Samsung's 23%

Apple's iPhone increased its lead in the United States smartphone market through the end of May, inching toward a 40 percent share, while the other major competitors outside of Samsung lost share.

Kevin Bostic 12 years ago 126

iPhone apps need to earn $47K per day to crack App Store's top 10 grossing

To be listed among the top 10 paid applications on the iOS App Store, software must average around 4,000 downloads per day, while a top grossing app must earn $47,000 per day, a new study has revealed.

Neil Hughes 12 years ago 18

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