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Gartner: Apple's share of mobile market grew 91% in Q2

Among smartphone operating systems, iOS' worldwide share grew nearly 30%

Apple's share of the worldwide mobile phone market (smart and not-so-smart) nearly doubled year over year in the second quarter of 2011, from 2.4% to 4.6%, according to a report issued Thursday by Gartner, Inc. That put Apple (AAPL) in fourth place among mobile phone vendors, well behind Nokia (NOK), Samsung and LG.

Apple's share of the rapidly-expanding smartphone market grew 29% MORE

Apple blows past estimates. Sales up 82%. Profits up 125%.

Sold a record 20.34 million iPhones, 9.25 million iPads and 3.95 million Macs

Apple's (AAPL) third fiscal quarter was bigger than the most optimistic estimates. Even without a new iPhone to drive sales, revenues, earnings and profits were bigger than the biggest Christmas quarter.

Apple also announced that OS X Lion is coming tomorrow (Wednesday).

The iPhone and iPad numbers were huge surprises. Sales of the iPod, as expected, continued to fall. Only MORE

Analysts: iPod sales expected to decline 7.2% year over year

For once, the amateurs and the professionals are in agreement

iPod sales hit 22.7 million in the Christmas quarter of 2008 and have been going downhill, with seasonal spikes, ever since.

The quarter that ended nearly three weeks ago is likely to continue that trend, according to the 43 analysts -- professional and amateur -- we polled in advance of our quarterly earnings smackdown.

For once, the two groups are in agreement. According MORE

Apple users buying 61% more apps, paying 14% more per app

The appetite for cool software is increasing, and customers are willing to pay more for it

Apple's (AAPL) business model is increasingly dependent on the health of its App Store, the rich breeding ground of the company's software ecosystem, and a report to clients issued Monday by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster suggests that the ecosystem's vital signs are good.

Apple only releases data about the App Store when it serves its interest MORE

How many ways can you say 15 billion App Store downloads?

Apple's latest press release manages to do it four times in seven paragraphs

In its missives to the press, Apple (AAPL) is usually content to repeat its favorite buzz words -- "incredible," "amazing," "exciting," "revolutionary" etc. -- to drive home how amazing and incredible the company is, especially compared with its humdrum competitors.

But the announcement issued Thursday takes Apple's penchant for banging and banging and banging its own drum to new MORE

Samsung seeks import ban on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Apple and its main supplier of memory chips seem headed for "ugly divorce," says expert

The legal battle began in April when Apple (AAPL) filed a suit in California accusing Samsung of "slavishly" copying its iPhone and iPad designs has gone nuclear.

After trading suits and counter suits in several legal venues, from South Korea to the U.K., Samsung on Thursday took its case to the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington. MORE

47% of the devices on Burger King's Wi-Fi networks run iOS

Android, at 11%, pales by comparison. The iPad, per device, is the biggest data hog of all

According to a report released Wednesday by Meraki, a San Francisco-based company that provides wireless networking to 17,000 small and medium-sized organizations, from MIT and UVA to Starbucks and Burger King, 2011 was the year that mobile devices overtook PCs as the major consumers of Wi-Fi data.

In a one-month period in 2010, Microsoft (MSFT) MORE

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* TechCrunch reports that Facebook has an HTML5-based mobile Web store in the works that iPhone and iPad users can access via their Safari browsers. Eighty third party developers, including Zynga, are supposedly working on the project. "Why? Because it's the one area of the device that Facebook MORE

Apple's Back to School promo: No more free iPod touch

Instead, students this year get the usual 10% discount and a $100 software gift card

We always thought of the iPod touch that Apple (AAPL) offered students as part of the company's annual "Back to School" sale as the equivalent of a narcotics dealer's free sample: a gateway drug that left users craving for an iPhone.

To the dismay of much of the class of 2011, Apple has dropped the popular loss MORE

Apple tries to put the kibosh on iPad and iPhone giveaways

iPod touches are OK in special circumstances, but only if you buy at least 250 units

Earlier this spring, the folks at WTVD-TV, the local ABC affiliate in Durham, N.C., had a bright idea. To drum up interest in the station -- and raise its profile on Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz -- it organized a sweepstakes contest and gave 11 lucky winners the hottest prize in consumer electronics: an Apple MORE