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Android’s share of mobile malware has increased by almost double in the last quarter, and now pegs in at 96 percent of the mobile malware market, according to a recent report by F-Secure Android users may be wondering If android is vulnerable to attack due to it been the the most popular smartphone OS currently, or is it because it’s just fundamentally easier to attack. Whatever the reason, [...]

Twitter rolled out a new version of its iOS and Android app, search feature gets improvements including additional topic and user suggestions when searching. Twitter has removed video uploading support for Mobypicture, Posterous, and Vodpod. This will make TwitVid and YFrog the exclusive video uploading services via Twitter’s iOS app. “We recently introduced the ability to see older Tweets [...]

Reports that Google has been looking for real estate for physical stores may not be true after all.  While speaking at the Mobile World Congress Google Android chief Andy Rubin  says that the company “Google has no plans, and we have nothing to announce,” when asked about the retail stores. At the same roundtable discussion Jamie Rosenberg, vice president of Google Play told The Verge that [...]

China is all set to go to past the US to become the country with the highest number of active  iOS and Android devices, both smartphones and tablets according to report from Flurry.   More details below : For this report, Flurry uses its entire data set, tracking more than 2.4 billion anonymous, aggregated application sessions per day across more than 275,000 applications around the world. Flurry [...]

Microsoft is testing video message feature on Skype. Skype users in the UK and US using the iOS, Android, and OSX apps can now send video messages up to three minutes long to each other. Strangely Skype Video Messages won’t immediately come to Windows Phone or Windows 8. Video messages sent to Windows users will send a link to the user where they can watch the video online. Tom Warren of The Verge [...]

Android and iOS once again dominated the smartphone market with 91.1 percent of all global smartphone shipments for the fourth quarter of 2012. Android and Apple shipped and landed 87.6 percent of the 722.4 million smartphones shipped worldwide in 2012 according to a report by IDC. “The dominance of Android and Apple reached a new watermark in the fourth quarter,” said Ramon Llamas, research [...]

Apple and Samsung accountes for 52 percent of all global smartphone sales in fourth quarter of 2012 according to a report by Gartner. Overall, mobile phone sales declined across the globe by 1.7 percent last year, the last time when sales fell were in 2009. Below is the report : “The last time the worldwide mobile phone market declined was in 2009,” said Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst [...]

Android and Apple smartphones wiped the floor with rivals and captured a whopping 92 per cent of global sales in the fourth quarter of last year according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics. During the same period global smartphone shipments grew 38 percent annually to reach 217 million units. Neil Shah, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “Global smartphone shipments grew 38 [...]

Samsung bought more mobile chips than any other company in 2012, according to new data from Gartner. Samsung and Apple  ordered $45.3 billion worth of semiconductors in 2012 which according to Gartner is  up $7.9 billion from 2012. Samsung was 8% of the chip market last year, while Apple was 7.2% of the market. They were followed by Hewlett-Packard (4.7% of the market), Dell (2.9%) and Sony (2.7%). [...]

Android phone makers such as  Samsung, LG, HTC and Sony will continue to bank on strong demand for 5-inch smartphones / phablet in 2013 according to Digitimes. Apple, Blackberry and Nokia have no plans for 5-inch smartphones this year according to unnamed industry sources. How big is the opportunity these companies are missing? Digitimes cites research suggesting 60.4 million smartphones with screens [...]