IOS (Apple)

Android's U.S. market share hits 53%

Is there an ARMDroid Dualopoly on the horizon?

In the biggest news item about Android market share since this morning, NPD group announced that in the US, Google's (GOOG) Android now outsells all of its competitors, combined.  It is important to note that NPD's data doesn't track corporate/enterprise mobile phone purchases, so RIM's(RIMM) Blackberry and to a lesser extent Apple's (AAPL) iPhone may be under-represented.  But for people who have a choice MORE

Today in Tech: new BlackBerry phone details, Groupon IPO

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

Groupon is moving ahead with an initial public offering (IPO), which is expected to happen some time this spring. The daily deals site, which just recently raised a record $950 million, now values itself at $15 billion. (New York Times)

The launch for News Corp's heavily-publicized iPad newspaper, the Daily, has reportedly been pushed back several weeks MORE

Mac App Store: the good and the bad

Today Apple launched its long-awaited Mac App Store, a desktop version of the popular marketplace that iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad owners already use to download mobile apps.

To access the new App Store, Mac desktop users need to download Mac OS X update 10.6.6. Afterwards, the App store icon appears in your dock, and once you enter and browse, they'll find it works similarly to the iOS app store, asking MORE

Today in Tech: Mac App store peek, Chrome OS app sales disappoint

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

"He doesn't really want people to live. He loves people because they have made him wealthy beyond every human being's wildest imagination. That's why he loves people." -- eccentric country-folk performer Will Oldham on Bill Gates

Tomorrow, Apple launches its Mac App Store, which ought to make the app discovery, payment, and installation process -- we're talking MORE

2011 will be the year Android explodes

Ever-improving networks and a big hardware announcement that will send handset prices plummeting both point to smartphone growth in 2011 that could totally eclipse anything we've seen before.

Smartphones have been growing at an unbelievable clip over the past year but they still account for only around a third of all phones in the US and an even smaller percentage internationally.  In developing countries, the price of smartphones, aside from some MORE

Android trademark infringement case thrown out, Google pleased

The plaintiff's original trademark, Android Data, was also canceled.

Imagine Paul Specht's surprise and delight in 2008 when Google (GOOG) announced that it would be calling its new phone operating system "Android" (Google bought Android in 2005, Andy Rubin bought the domain years earlier).  Specht previously had a company called "Android Data" a decade ago, which at the time he trademarked with the USPTO.  The trademark was granted in 2002.

But 2002 was the MORE

Android's gift to Apple

Google may, paradoxically, be making the world a better place to sell iPhones

You might think that the almost viral spread of Google's (GOOG) free and open-source Android operating system would eventually drive down smartphone prices and put pressure on Apple's (AAPL) proprietary iOS -- and on Steve Jobs' enviable profit margins.

But an analysis of the eight largest mobile vendors' average selling prices posted overnight Monday by Asymco's Horace Dediu suggests MORE

Sony announces Playstation app for Android and iOS

The Playstation app doesn't yet play games.

Sony (SNE) today announced that they'd be launching a PlayStation app for Android and iOS.  Sony's upcoming Playstation phone has been leaked on numerous occasions but app brings the possibility that Sony will be virtualizing its gaming platforms for today's two biggest mobile platforms (by mindshare) would be an interesting play.  Sony says it will be available for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and iPod with MORE

How the Mac App store could blow up the software market

Every application developer from Microsoft to the shareware maker in the basement is watching to see how Apple's forthcoming OSX application store will change the dynamics of the software industry.

By John Patrick Pullen, contributor

This time of year, the vision of elves working away in Santa's workshop is on the minds of many — especially Mac application programmers. That's because for them, with the rumored impending launch of the Mac App MORE

HTML5: not ready for primetime, but getting very close

Companies and developers say it's the future. A look at why the HTML5 hype machine is in overdrive and whether it's warranted.

Given how tech giants like Apple, Google and even Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) have wholeheartedly embraced HTML5 and dubbed it the future of the web, it's no surprise the hype behind the quickly-emerging web specification has reached a fevered pitch. And the hubbub will get even louder now, with the just-launched MORE