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Bloomberg Businessweek draws Apple's patent battlemap

Steve Jobs last war, the magazine argues, could do his company more harm than good

Click here to read this week's cover story on Apple's (AAPL) war against Google's (GOOG) Android.

Apple now takes the biggest bite of the world's chip market

Overtook Samsung and HP in 2011 on sales of iPhones, iPads and MacBook Airs

The pie chart at right, created from data that showed up in Gartner Inc's RSS feed on Thursday, tells only part of the story. It shows Apple (AAPL) consuming 5.7% of the world's semiconductor capacity, overtaking Samsung and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) in 2011.

But to get a sense of how dramatically conditions changed in the worldwide chip market last year, check out MORE

iPhone tops J.D. Power's satisfaction list for the 7th time

Battery life proves critical, as Samsung comes in third, below the industry average

In smartphones these days, according to J.D. Power and Associates, nothing matters more in terms of customer satisfaction and loyalty that how fast the battery drains.

"Both carriers and manufacturers recognize the fact that battery life needs to be improved," said J.D. Power's Kirk Parsons in a press release issued Thursday. "However, the study uncovers the need for a MORE

Barcelona blues: Apple reaps most of the cellphone profits

Just in time for this week's Mobile World Congress, a snapshot of where the money goes

To get a sense of what Apple's (AAPL) competitors are up against in Barcelona this week as they unveil their new mobile phone models for the 2012 season, consider the relative size of the solid color profit (and loss) bars in the chart above.

It's the money shot in a series of eye-opening graphs that the inimitable Horace MORE

Where are the smartphones of yesteryear?

The Samsung Moment? The Motorola Cliq? The HTC Magic? The BlackBerry Tour? 

Maybe I don't spend enough time shopping for Google (GOOG) Android phones, but I always get a kick out of the Top 20 Mobile Phone lists -- measured by ad impressions -- that Millennial Media posts each year.

In the 2011 report issued Thursday there weren't many surprises at the top of the list.

Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, the No. 1 best MORE

Does anyone care what Ed Zabitsky says about Apple?

An analyst with a $270 target and "sell short" rating may have a credibility problem

I applaud my CNNMoney colleague Hibah Yousuf for trying to pin down which hedge funds have been dumping their Apple (AAPL) shares lately, but I'm not sure I would have used ACI Research's Edward Zabitsky as a source for a piece entitled Not everyone loves Apple's stock.

To call Zabitsky's most recent note -- published Jan. 25 -- an MORE

How many times have we heard about a smaller Apple iPad?

A Google search turns up 114 million hits, but that couldn't be right. Could it?

The Wall Street Journal was getting a lot of play Tuesday morning with a report out of Taiwan that Apple (AAPL), to "broaden its product pipeline" and respond to "intensifying competition," was testing a new smaller tablet with a screen size of about 8 inches.

Color us skeptical.

First of all, we don't sense that Apple MORE

Where would U.S. consumer electronics be without Apple?

Down 6% in 2011, that's where, according to the NPD Group

If it weren't for tablets and mobile phones, 2011 would have been a miserable year for the U.S. consumer electronics industry.

Total U.S. retail sales for the year were $144 billion, down 1% from 2010, according to a report issued Monday by the NPD Group.

That might not sound too bad. But sales of PCs, TVs and video game hardware were all down, MORE

IDC: The iPhone is once again the world's No. 1 smartphone

Regained the spot that it took from Nokia in June and gave up to Samsung in September

It will come as no surprise to Apple (AAPL) watchers that the company sold 37 million iPhones last quarter. Tim Cook reported that number two weeks ago.

Getting comparable figures from Apple's competitors is a different matter, and that's where companies like IDC come in. Samsung, for example, used to report only the number of mobile MORE

Android's original standard bearer -- HTC -- falls from grace

Squeezed by Apple and Samsung, it had a bad quarter and expects the next to be worse

There was a time when HTC and Android were practically synonymous.

The Taiwanese manufacturer built the first commercially available Android phone -- the HTC Dream -- in 2008, and two years later collaborated with Google (GOOG) to build the Nexus One, the flagship of the Android line. Last November, it edged past Samsung, Apple (AAPL) MORE