Source: AdMob
Apple (AAPL) now has a substantial -- if not the largest -- share of the smartphone market in every region of the world except Asia and Africa, according to a report issued Wednesday by AdMob.
Overall, the iPhone's worldwide share grew to 40% from 33% over the last six months. In North America, its share of the smartphone market is 52%, as measured by hits on AdMob's ads.
AdMob, which MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 30, 2009 2:02 PM ET
Bad times can't last forever. Start acting like a winner.
Lochhead: Eight rules for thriving post-recession. Photo: Christopher Lochhead
By Christopher Lochhead, strategy advisor and former chief marketing officer, Mercury Interactive
A lot of CEOs got caught flat-footed by the recession: they just didn't see the global downturn coming. They didn't act quickly enough, and as a result, their companies' revenues and earnings suffered more than they needed to. So did their MORE
Sep 30, 2009 11:20 AM ET
What would it take to make Verizon's (VZ) cellphone network compatible with Apple's (AAPL) iPhone?
About $1.78 billion, according to a report issued Wednesday by Aircom International, a U.K.-based network consulting group.
And that's just for the first year.
The report estimates the capital expenditures required to deploy so-called 4G networks -- also known as LTE, for Long Term Evolution -- in various regions of the world. Their findings:
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 30, 2009 9:57 AM ET
Online sample-sale company tries to bring its model to luxury travel
Ready to jetset? This may be the site for you. Image: Jetsetter
At the Cotton House, one of only two hotels on the tiny Isle of Mustique, warm breezes drift in from the Caribbean, which is always in view. As you nibble on caviar and sip champagne at dusk, the only sounds are those of the waves gently breaking and MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 30, 2009 8:00 AM ET
Image: iLounge
iLounge editor-in-chief Jeremy Horwitz, quoting an unnamed "reliable source" whom he seems to trust, offered 10 new details about the much talked-about Apple (AAPL) tablet Tuesday, the first nine of which are undermined by the last:
"10. It is apparently awaiting a final green light from Steve Jobs; chances of it appearing in the market are believed to be 80% at this point."
Still, there are some interesting -- and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 29, 2009 12:41 PM ET
A new tech wizard is fighting to return the ailing cellphone maker to relevance with a slate of new phones–and help from Google.
It's been more than a year Sanjay Jha left wireless chip maker Qualcomm (QCOM) to come to Motorola (MOT). As co-CEO of Motorola (along with Greg Brown), he took on a task even the private equity firms had passed on: saving the iconic handset division. Just as he MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Sep 29, 2009 11:55 AM ET
Xerox CEO Ursula Burns has made a bold bid for services company ACS. Photo: Xerox.
Xerox's new CEO bets big on services. Can she convince investors she made the right move?
Ursula Burns calls less than 30 minutes after the markets close on the most tumultuous trading day in Xerox (XRX) history, and she sounds, well, energized. Not quite 100 days into the CEO job, on Monday she launched the biggest MORE
Jon Fortt - Sep 29, 2009 6:30 AM ET
It's 4 a.m. and the Apple Store has disappeared. Could this be the day the new iMacs appear?
[UPDATE: False alarm. By 4:45 a.m., the store was back online. Reader Pierre in Montreal spotted a new version of FileMaker's Bento, which appeared to be the only change.]
Talk that Apple (AAPL) was preparing to refresh its best-selling desktop computer line has been building for months, and on Thursday AppleInsider's Kasper Jade reported MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 29, 2009 4:47 AM ET
Charlie Brooker. Photo: The Guardian.
One of the disadvantages of reading American newspapers is that you don't get Charlie Brooker delivered to your doorstep.
Brooker is a British comedian and, as everyone who reads The Guardian knows, the author of the Screen Burn column that appears in G2 every Monday. He's also Britain's funniest and most enthusiastic Apple (AAPL) basher -- an honorific he secured with a Feb. 5, 2007 column MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 28, 2009 1:32 PM ET
User-generated video goes mobile - and live
Ramu Sunkara was at home in Silicon Valley three years ago, chatting with a friend in Moscow, when inspiration struck. He didn't just want to hear about his friend
Sunkara: inspired by a Moscow snow frolic. Photo: Qik
playing in the snow with his kids. He wanted to see it, live.
Now he can. Soon after that phone conversation, Sunkara and two friends started Qik (pronounced MORE
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