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This week, the startup everyone's buzzing about is Color, a free mobile app aimed at creating a social experience that maximizes the smart phone's unique technology. Users share and store photos and videos in visual diaries -- besides being able to view their own media, they can also MORE

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Microsoft is paying Nokia $1 billion to develop and market Windows Phone 7 smartphones. In exchange, Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows Phone 7 used on its devices, and those costs will likely be offset as the company downsizes its internal MORE

Latest comScore numbers have Android at #1 in US

The upward surge of Android continues into 2011 where it passed BlackBerry for the first time in comScore data.

Today's comScore MobiLens market share numbers show that Google's (GOOG) Android continues to grow its lead in smartphone market share in the US.

Android passed iOS in November according to ComScore.  In December, RIM (RIMM) still had a 3 point lead over Android.  In just one month however, Android has managed to grab MORE

Why Android will not suffer from Verizon's iPhone

Here's why Piper is wrong.

In the U.S., we tend to think that we are the center of the world and what happens here sets a trend for the rest of the world.  That's why it is no surprise to hear Americans say that the release of the Verizon (VZ) iPhone today signals the end of the ascent of Android.  Piper Jaffay's Gene Munster is one of these believers.  In a MORE

Latest comScore numbers say Android passes iPhone

...and quickly gaining on RIM in number of active US users.

Not a big surprise here, with 300,000 Google Android devices being activated daily vs. Apple's 150,000+ (Apple sold 14m iPhones last quarter), comScore's November numbers show more Android phones in use in the US than Apple's iPhone.

Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) are the only platforms that gained ground in the latest study. Google grew an impressive 6.4 points while Apple gained MORE

Free shipping and Apple's iPad help spark record online holiday sales

Despite the economy, Americans managed to spend $27.46 billion in 47 days

Online sales in the U.S. are up 12% this holiday season, according to a comScore report issued Sunday, driven by two factors:

Free shipping: Americans spent $942 million online Dec. 17, 61% more than they spent the same day last year, thanks to the more than 1,500 online merchants who participated in Free Shipping Day.
Electronics: Online sales of computer hardware MORE

ComScore: Android continues to gain ground in September

Apple holds steady while Microsoft, RIM and Palm all lose market share.

Google's (GOOG) Android platform had another winning quarter, according to comScore's Mobilens. Android phones went from under 15% of the U.S. smartphone market in June to over 21% in September according to a report by ComScore. Google started out the year at 7%. Apple held steady at 24.3%, although July saw a spike with the launch of the iPhone 4.

RIM (RIMM) MORE

Google continues to gain search market share

Data from comScore indicates that Google's core search saw a positive impact from Google Instant.

While search queries were up 4% overall in September from August , Google (GOOG) doubled the industry's gain as a whole, comScore said in a report yesterday.  Google's share was likely bolstered by the new Google Instant which shows results as the user types.

In September, Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing grew 2% while Yahoo (YHOO) lost 5%.  Microsoft now MORE

Android vs. iPhone: Wait just a minute!

Sure Google is gaining on Apple, but not as fast as comScore's latest data suggest

I don't want to get into what Ben Bradlee, the Watergate-era editor of the Washington Post, used to call a "defensive crouch," but I've got a bone to pick with some of the headlines that came out of comScore's July 2010 mobile market share report, issued Wednesday afternoon. For example:

Apple is now the U.S.'s No. 2 e-retailer

Visitors to its online store "surged" 25% in the past year, according to a comScore survey

From comScore's "State of the U.S. Online Retail Economy in Q1 2010" Webinar, May 27, 2010.

[Follow Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Twitter @philiped]