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Windows 7 drops below 70% adoption on Steam, while Windows 8 passes Windows Vista and Ubuntu grabs 1%
thenextweb.com
Valve on Saturday updated its Hardware & Software Survey for January 2013, and the news is very good for everyone except Apple. Both Microsoft and Canonical have reason to celebrate on Steam for the start of this year. Here is how things looked like for January 2013 on Steam, in...
Windows 7 drops below 70% adoption on Steam, while Windows 8 passes Windows Vista and Ubuntu grabs 1%
Kantar data shows Apple's grip slipping as Samsung surges
www.bgr.com
The big Eastern European mobile operator MTS recently released interesting numbers about the Russian handset market. They showed Samsung’s share of Russian smartphone market revenue exploding between the first quarters of 2011 and 2012, while Apple’s share actually declined a bit. Now Kantar has come out with its latest survey tracking...
Think Europeans are more into data privacy than Americans? Think again.
gigaom.com
For all the talk of a trade war breaking out between the U.S. and European Union over online privacy, it may well be that consumers in the two markets have pretty similar expectations regarding what happens with their personal data. That at least appears to be one of the conclusions...
CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft's Windows Compared To iOS And Android (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG)
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Despite the growth of mobile platforms, Windows remains the number one operating system by a long shot, according to data from comScore. The chart below shows the share of platforms driving traffic to websites in the U.S. It's not a perfect measure of which platform is the most used,...
Android Jelly Bean hits 6.7% adoption, ICS 27.5%, but Gingerbread still on over half of devices
thenextweb.com
Google on Monday updated its Platform Versions Web page for Android, and it looks like Android 4.x has finally passed the 30 percent share of the droid’s pie. Unfortunately, however, more than half of users are still on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). Breaking down the numbers more specifically, 6.7 percent of...
Intel Beats The Street Again
allthingsd.com
Intel knocked down the expectations of analysts once again, reporting a profit of 56 cents a share on sales of $12.9 billion. The results beat the consensus view of analysts who had expected Intel to report per-share earnings of 50 cents on sales of $12.84 billion. The company also said...
A Third Mobile Platform? There's No Room for One.
allthingsd.com
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech says that Apple’s iOS recently ousted Google’s Android as the most popular smartphone OS in the U.S.? Not so says comScore. According to its survey of 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers, Android continues to hold that title. For the three months ending in October, comScore figures Android captured...
Adfonic Global AdMetrics Report: 108 billion mobile ad requests say iPhone still king for advertisers
venturebeat.com
Despite the massive growth of Android smartphones, advertisers still covet iPhone users more than any other platform. Even though Android grew to 75 percent market share last quarter, Apple’s iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches gained three percentage points of ad impressions while Android lost a point, according to mobile ad network Adfonic,...
Adfonic Global AdMetrics Report: 108 billion mobile ad requests say iPhone still king for advertisers
iPhone 5 helps Apple iOS devices rebound and pass 65% share of mobile traffic
thenextweb.com
September was a curious month for Apple: as everyone waited for the iPhone 5 and the iPad mini, the company lost quite a lot of mobile traffic market share, dropping below the 60 percent mark. Yet the company managed to rebound in October, surpassing 65 percent of the mobile traffic...
Samsung reports Q1 earnings: $5.16 billion in operating profit
9to5google.com
Samsung just announced its Q1 2012 earnings this evening, reporting revenues of 45.27 trillion Korean won (up 22% y/o/y) and a record operating profit of 5.85 trillion won. We’ll be hopping on the call at 9:30 PM EST to hear more details. developing. Press release after the jump. –(SEOUL–Korea Newswire) April 27,...
Game of Phones: Apple keeps app revenue edge even before next-gen iPhone launch
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Among professional app developers, App Annie is often cited as one of the most reliable sources of market statistics. App Annie’s most recent info dump is a fascinating snapshot of the state of the industry on the eve of the next-generation iPhone launch. Year to date, both iOS and...
Apple Shipped More PCs than HP in Q4 2011, But Only If You Count iPads
www.maximumpc.com
Break out the Apple cider if you live in/near Cupertino, California, and toast your hometown PC representatives for dethroning Hewlett-Packard as the worldwide client PC vendor in the fourth quarter of 2011, but only if you're willing to include tablet shipments in the overall tally. If you are, then congrats,...
Android 4.0+ nears 40 percent share in new Google numbers
www.electronista.com
Google today released the latest figures for install bases of its various Android versions, revealing that devices running Android 4.0 and above now account for more than 40 percent of all Android devices. The new figures represent a considerable jump for Android 4.0+ in terms of overall share, as 4.0...
ComScore: US Smartphone Penetration 47% In Q2; Android Remains Most Popular, But Apple's Growing Faster
techcrunch.com
ComScore today released its latest quarterly figures on the state of the mobile market in the U.S. based on active users, and while the exact numbers are different, the basic picture is the same as the one that Strategy Analytics painted earlier in the week around smartphone sales: Apple’s iOS...
ComScore: US Smartphone Penetration 47% In Q2; Android Remains Most Popular, But Apple's Growing Faster
Windows already threatening iPhone in Southern Europe
bgr.com
Kantar Worldpanel’s report for November came out and much has been made of the iPhone market share surge in the United States. What I find interesting in the November numbers is just how ice cold the iPhone has gone in so many international markets, from Australia to Brazil to Southern Europe....
T-Mobile USA subscriber losses worsten to 205,000 in Q2
www.bgr.com
T-Mobile USA on Thursday reported its financial results for the second quarter. The company’s experimentation with a number of new plan options and hardware subsidy models hasn’t done much to keep customers on board, but the carrier did manage to increase profitability despite a drop in revenue. T-Mobile shed...
Android 4.0 finally on 10 percent of devices, 8.5 months in
www.theverge.com
The Android Developers site is posting some new numbers showing the distribution of Android versions on devices accessing Google's Play store, and while Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich showed growth of more than 50 percent over last month’s figure, it’s still only on 10.9 percent of devices. The increase...
Did space policy affect the outcome of the Florida primary?
www.spacepolitics.com
Last night Mitt Romney won a “decisive victory” in the Republican presidential primary in Florida, with 46 percent of the statewide vote. Many space advocates are wondering if the candidates’ space positions, particularly the speeches made last week by Romney and Newt Gingrich, made much of a difference. One way...
Android Jelly Bean passes 10% adoption, ICS nears 30%, and Gingerbread finally falls under 50%
thenextweb.com
Google on Thursday updated its Platform Versions Web page for Android, and it looks like there’s finally some good news to report. Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) have finally passed 10 percent share of the droid’s pie, while Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is nearing the...
Android and iOS still rule the mobile world; Microsoft and RIM have long roads ahead
bgr.com
The latest numbers from research firm ComScore reveal the difficulties both Microsoft (MSFT) and Research in Motion (RIMM) face when deploying their new mobile operating systems. Windows Phone 8 handsets are just around the corner and the first BlackBerry 10 devices are slated to arrive for early next year, however...
Survey Of Florida Voters Reveals Interesting Result
www.huffingtonpost.com
-- Voters in Tuesday's Florida Republican primary mirror those in other early-voting states, with nearly half saying the most important quality a candidate can have is the ability to defeat President Barack Obama in November and over 6 in 10 calling the economy their top concern. CONSERVATIVE BUT LESS...
Samsung's share of the Android market doubled in 2012
bgr.com
Samsung (005930) has seen unprecedented growth in the mobile market. Not only has the company dominated the Android operating system, in the past year it also became the number one smartphone and overall mobile vendor in the world. Samsung has been a major player in the Android market since its original...
iOS tops Android in smartphone sales, survey says
www.pcworld.com
Android sales have declined in the U.S., helping iOS regain the top spot among smartphone platforms sold in the three-month period ending in October, according to the latest research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. The survey found iOS now has 48.1 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, an increase of...
iPhone 5 helps iOS overtake Android in the U.S.
bgr.com
Following the successful launch of the iPhone 5, sales of iOS devices have overtaken Android in the U.S., according to Kantar Worldpanel. The research firm found that in the past 12 weeks, sales of Apple (AAPL) smartphones accounted for 48.1% of the market compared to Android’s 46.7% share. Apple loyalty remains...
BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: News Consumption Is All About Mobile Now
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Mobile Insights is the new daily newsletter from BI Intelligence that collects and delivers the top mobile strategy news. It is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. News Consumption Is All About Mobile And Social (Pew Research Center via GigaOM)A new study from the Pew Research...
Top Trends of 2012: Video on Tablets
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One in every ten tablet users views video content almost daily on their device, according to a new report by comScore. The study also found that tablet users are nearly three times more likely to watch video on their device compared to smartphone users. Nearly one in four smartphone owners...
George Osborne's corporation tax cut may not win business for Britain
www.guardian.co.uk
Amazon not the only company to have shifted headquarters out of UK, other multinationals could do same and save billionsDespite George Osborne's assertion in the budget that a cut in corporation tax to 22% by 2014 was "an advertisement for investment and jobs in Britain," many multinational companies do not...
Apple Sets New High with 53.3% of U.S. Smartphone Market, Android Holds Strong in Europe
www.macrumors.com
Last month, research firm Kantar Worldpanel reported that Apple had retaken the lead in U.S. smartphone sales from Android over the August-October timeframe, topping Android by a 48.1%-46.7% margin on the strength of the iPhone 5 launch. At the time, the firm suggested that Apple's share would continue to rise...
Android tablets gaining market share, iPad still tops
www.electronista.com
Android tablets made a considerable leap in terms of market share last quarter, according to Strategy Analytics. The research firm saw the tablet sector growing compared to the same quarter last year, with Apple's iPad still in the overwhelming lead over any individual competitor. Android-based tablets, though, collectively lopped eight...
Hitwise: Google US Search Share Down 5% In The Last Year; Bing, Yahoo Gained
techcrunch.com
Google is still by far the most dominant search engine in the U.S., but in the last year it actually lost some momentum while Yahoo and especially Microsoft’s Bing both saw increases, according to figures out today from Experian Hitwise, and bolstered by separate numbers released yesterday by Compete, with...
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