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Google today  announce the much anticipated Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet, as well as an increased storage space available on the Nexus 7 tablet while maintaining its pricing. Its Android Jelly Bean operating system also got an update.   The LG built Nexus 4 is the successor to Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus. The Nexus 4 features a 4.7-inch display, up from 4.65-inches, and where the Galaxy [...]

Researchers  at Leibniz University of Hannover and Philipps University of Marburg in Germany have  uncovered  41 Android apps in the Google Play store that are leaking sensitive data due to “Man-in-the-middle” attack,  ranging from credit card information and email content to social networking site passwords. “Man-in-the-middle” attacker creates a fake Wi-Fi hotspot and uses a specially [...]

Google has rolled out an update to its Google Drive iOS app that atlast lets iOS users edit their Google Drive documents on the go, just as you can already do with the Android app. That’s not all, iOS users can also view Google presentations on  iOS device, this also means that you can now view speaker notes and use full-screen mode for presentations in Google Drive for iOS. Android app also [...]

It’s raining tablets, with a slew of tablet computers getting launched this year, these mobile devices are becoming faster, sleeker and cheaper. Amazon was a game changer last year when it came up with a under US  $200 tablet, which had its share of shortcomings, nevertheless, it was a game changer for what it offered at that price, Google and Asus had upped the ante with the Google Nexus release [...]

According to Canaccord Genuity, Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone has dethroned Apple’s  iPhone 4S as the bestselling smartphone in the US in August. Apple’s iPhone 4S has remained at the top of the pile since its introduction last October. iPhone 4S sales in the US had been dipping in anticipation of the new iPhone launch, and the Galaxy S III’s  has managed to capitalise on that. Samsung’s [...]

Credit : Macobserver.com Android dominance of the smartphone market continued during the second quarter, majorly powered by Samsung’s Galaxy 3’s success.  Apple in contrast struggled somewhat as consumers unexpectedly held out for the next version of the iPhone according to Gartner, Inc. Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419 million units in the second quarter of 2012, [...]

Image Credit : talkandroidphones.com iPhone User? –  You’re in the minority. Smartphones powered by Android accounted for 68% of all smartphones shipped in Q2 2012, Apple iPhone came in at a in a distant second  with a 17% share of the global market. IDC analysts traced Android’s success in the market directly to South Korean personal electronics giant Samsung, which so far this year [...]

Samsung is the top selling brand in Europe at the moment, a part of the credit goes  to aggressive pricing in a region hit by economic pressures and the  successful launch of the latest in Galaxy series Galaxy S3 in May according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, which bases its conclusions on more than 1 million of interviews with consumers every month. 45% of all smartphone sales were for Samsung phones [...]

Research consultancy Frank N. Magid Associates’s recently survey of 4,734 cell phone and smartphone owners revealed that 50% of people currently own an iPad, down significantly from 72% at last count. Apple shipped a robust 17.0 million iPads worldwide and maintained its strong market leadership with 68 percent share during the second quarter of 2012 The report says Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet [...]

Android sales declined by 5% over last year, according to a report by Strategy Analysts, Google’s mobile OS’s market share dropped from 60.6 percent a year earlier to 56.3 percent and according to the report Android may be “approaching a peak” in its market share. The key reasons for the decline were a dull economy, maturing penetration of smartphones among contract mobile subscribers, [...]