Gartner projects Apple's iPad to maintain 50% market share through 2014
Apple's iPad will continue to dominate the tablet market, maintaining more than 50 percent market share through 2014, according to a new analysis.
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Microsoft
Josh Ong
Disney bets on iOS App Store games to return interactive unit to profitability
After losing millions of dollars trying to produce console games for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, Disney is betting on Apple's low cost app market to become profitable and create new characters capable of driving sales of movies and merchandise.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Windows Phone 7 introduces app version issues in Mango update
In its first significant update, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform is introducing a new layer of app version complexity for developers and users that offers a glimpse of how both it and Windows 8 will differ from Apple's existing iOS and Mac App Stores.
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Microsoft faces iPad, iWorks without articulated plan for Windows 8 Office
While eager to demonstrate next year's Windows 8, Microsoft has been reticent to make any promises about a tablet friendly new version of Office sporting the new Metro look, a clear departure from Apple's strategy of presenting the original iPad with a suite of new iWork apps, but only after both were finished and ready to sell.
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Microsoft to take 30% cut of Metro apps under Windows 8
New Metro-style apps designed to run on Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 for tablets will copy Apple's App Store business model of charging a 30 percent fee from developers, allowing the potential for Microsoft to regain control over software in segments it has lost to Apple's iTunes and Google search.
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Patent suit targets Apple, Microsoft over data encryption
Both Apple and its rival Microsoft have been hit with a new lawsuit accusing them and others of violating patents related to digital file encryption and security.
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Katie Marsal
Apple seen in 'no rush' to release iPad 3 as competitors struggle
Apple reportedly has prototypes for its third-generation iPad already circling in its supply chain, but no new model is expected to arrive this year as a true second-place tablet has yet to emerge.
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Neil Hughes
Microsoft again clarifies that Windows 8 tablets won't actually run Windows apps
The president of Microsoft's Windows unit, Stephen Sinofsky, has again pointedly clarified that new ARM tablets running Windows 8 next year won't actually run existing Windows apps for PCs.
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Microsoft jettisons Flash with 'plug-in free' Windows 8 Metro IE10
The tablet-optimized Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 in Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 will be a "plug-in free experience," as the company follows Apple's lead in abandoning Adobe Flash in favor of HTML5 on tablets.
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AppleInsider Staff
Sam Oliver
Chris Smith and Daniel Eran Dilger
