The falling prices of handsets and the buildout of advanced mobile networks will help Android grow at unprecedented rates in the developing world, according to Google's head of Android.
Andy Rubin tweeted last week that Google (GOOG) was activating 300,000 Android phones a day. That number reflects incredible growth in a year that started with a tenth as many activations. At 300,000 phones/day, Google is on track to activate over 110 million MORE
Seth Weintraub - Dec 14, 2010 10:25 AM ET
For the second month in a row, two smartphone operating systems are in a dead heat
Source: Millennial Media
The extraordinary growth of Google's (GOOG) Android phones can be traced in six months of smartphone advertising data from Millennial Media, the largest independent mobile ad network.
In a series of pie charts, they show Android overtaking Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry between July and August in ad impressions, gaining rapidly on Apple's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 14, 2010 6:10 AM ET
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Seems TechCrunch's report late last week regarding early Yahoo layoffs may have been premature and inaccurate. (See below.) According to All Things D, the layoffs at the Internet company actually start today, with many, but not necessarily all, of the 650 to 700 cuts coming from Yahoo's product division. (AllThingsD)
Microsoft may announce several tablet PCs from MORE
Google is launching a site that will help people whose family members are in need of tech help.
We've all been there. We're either the beneficiary of the family tech guru or we're the ones who head home on the Holiday vacation to a year's worth of tech support issues to address.
Google (GOOG) hopes to help with a site called TeachParentsTech:
TeachParentsTech.org lets you select from more than 50 basic how-to videos to send MORE
Seth Weintraub - Dec 13, 2010 1:59 PM ET
Management training was reportedly held last week with fully-functioning units
MacDailyNews, a site that is usually a repository for Apple (AAPL) news broken elsewhere, unloaded a motherlode of Verizon (VZ) iPhone rumors Monday. Among their bullet-points:
Verizon held management training for iPhone sales last week with functioning iPhones in management hands for the training sessions
The device has been "100% cooked for quite a while" and already shipping in bulk to Verizon warehouses
Formal MORE
Opens $3.79 (1.2%) higher after the firm resumes coverage with a $430 price target
Goldman Sachs (GS), one of the few major U.S. investing firms that wasn't covering Apple (AAPL), resumed coverage Sunday with a price target of $430.
The stock reacted immediately when trading began Monday, quickly setting an all-time intraday high of $325.06 as 1.4 million shares changed hands at the opening bell. It gave up some of its gains MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 13, 2010 10:08 AM ET
The data that surfaced last week, if accurate, show how badly the carrier needs the iPhone
Click to enlarge. Source: Asymco
Most of the analysts who looked at the Verizon (VZ) sales data that All Things Digital's John Paczkowski published Friday picked up his story line: Thanks to Google's (GOOG) Android, Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry has gone, in Paczkowski's words, "from a flagship to a johnboat."
But Asymco's Horace Dediu has MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 13, 2010 6:26 AM ET
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Photo: TechCrunch/Twitter
According to a Tweet from Yahoo senior software developer Zach Graves, company layoffs began late last week ahead of schedule. Said Graves: "The number of people carrying boxes out of Yahoo tonight is not surprising, nor the last of it." As reported by various outlets including Fortune recently, the Internet company is cutting at MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 13, 2010 6:00 AM ET
The multi-touch Maps application that Andy Rubin demoed last week will be on the Nexus S for official launch.
The Maps application that was loaded on that Motorola(MOT) tablet that Andy Rubin demonstrated last week at the Dive into Mobile event isn't just for prototype tablets. It appears that it will be joining the Nexus S for its release according to a video posted on the Nexus S YouTube account.
Of particular interest is MORE
Seth Weintraub - Dec 12, 2010 12:34 PM ET
Ten patents published last week show how hard it's working on fixing your snapshots
Click to enlarge. Source: Patently Apple
Apple (AAPL) files a ton of patents, and you never know when one is published whether the technology covered will ever see the light of day. But the filings do tell you a lot about where the company is focusing its R&D efforts.
That's what makes the flurry of imaging-related patents published MORE
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