As part of their CTIA package, NPD group posted some positive numbers for Android and its vendors.
Source: NPD group
Taiwan's HTC overtook Apple (AAPL) and RIM (RIMM) to become the leading manufacturer of US smartphones in Q4 2010 according to a report by NPD Group.
HTC's share of the US Market crossed 20% while BlackBerry and Apple slipped to 19%. Motorola(MMI) rounded out the top four at 16%. Samsung, LG, Nokia(NOK), MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 22, 2011 12:17 PM ET
The Store works as advertised, which might be bad news for Verizon's efforts.
Two big Google (GOOG) Android stores launched this week. Verizon(VZ) launched its VCast Apps for Android on the new Thunderbolt LTE Handset late last week and this morning, after a slight delay and a last minute trademark lawsuit by Apple, Amazon(AMZN) launched their Appstore.
Amazon's Appstore
Both claim to be a more curated app buying process. However, they are a study in MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 22, 2011 10:44 AM ET
Apple's CEO will have to answer questions in a six-year-old iTunes monopoly suit
Jobs at iPad 2 event. Image: Apple Inc.
In Nov. 2010, plaintiffs in the long-running "Apple iPod iTunes Anti-Trust Litigation" class-action lawsuit asked the presiding judge for permission to depose Steve Jobs. Apple's (AAPL) lawyers promptly filed for a protective order preventing the deposition.
What happened next is a little hard to follow, since so many of the relevant MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 22, 2011 7:30 AM ET
It opened Tuesday, despite the trademark infringement suit Apple filed on Friday
Source: Amazon.com via The New York Times
[UPDATE: Sometime after 7:00 a.m. EST, the Amazon Appstore went live. Looks like Apple will have to go back to court and start specifying those unspecified damages it was seeking.]
Okay. It's Tuesday morning, and according to the New York Times, Amazon is supposed to enter the mobile app business today with a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 22, 2011 6:13 AM ET
A curated selection of the day's newsworthy tech stories from all around the Web. Read on, and join the conversation with a comment below.
Microsoft is suing Barnes & Noble -- alongside Foxconn and Inventec -- over alleged patent infringement, including "features" in the Android operating systems on which its Nook eBook readers are based. Things like window tabs, status bars, and showing the content of a page while it's still loading, are MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Mar 22, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Those automated cars that Google is building aren't anything new – in fact, Google Co-founder Larry Page almost chose to forgo web search and ranking to work on a Ph.D. project in automated cars.
Here's a little tidbit of information from a talk Page gave at a Faculty Summit in 2009. He told the audience that he had to choose from three different academic areas to focus his study at Stanford: Telepresence (Google MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 22, 2011 12:28 AM ET
Deemed legal in Germany, and gets off with a small fine for 'spying' in France.
Steetview car
A German court has ruled that Google (GOOG) Steetview is legal. A German woman had sued the Mountain View, California company stating that she fear that photos of her, her family and the front of her house would be posted on Google Street View and would thus violate her property and privacy rights.
The court ruled MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 21, 2011 6:36 PM ET
The struggling bookseller now has to fend off a lawsuit from Microsoft over the Android OS in its Nook eBook Reader.
Microsoft (MSFT) today filed legal actions against Barnes & Noble, Inc.(BKS), Foxconn International Holdings Ltd., and Inventec Corporation in both the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington over patents related to the Android operating systems on which its Nook eBook readers are MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 21, 2011 5:53 PM ET
Looking for fiscal Q2 2011 earnings between $5.89 and $6.32 a share
Asymco's Horace Dediu, whose track record on Apple (AAPL) over the past three quarters is second to none, and Daniel ("Deagol") Tello, one of the industry's most closely watched blogger-analysts, have posted their Apple estimates for the topsy-turvy quarter than ends this Saturday, March 26.
Dediu, who likes to make his predictions early, announced on Jan. 22 that he's looking MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 21, 2011 2:37 PM ET
The comedian seems to have a handle on the AT&T-T-Mobile situation.
Copyright: Comedy Central
By the way, this aired all the way back in 2007 when SBC was absorbing AT&T wireless and the brand. It seems even more applicable now that that T-Mobile is the latest mobile carrier to get's sucked into the "new" AT&T (T).
via @chronic
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