Tag Archives : Apple

The soon to be launched Microsoft Surface has the same general curved design as the iPad which also is the case with Samsung  tablets, unlike Samsung, Microsoft will not get sued over this, this is perfectly legal for Microsoft. Apple has licensed some of its design patents to Microsoft, under the condition of an “anti-cloning agreement” that prevents Microsoft from releasing clones of iPhone [...]

Google Inc. has agreed to pay $22.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges for misleading users about its tracking activities on Apple Inc.’s Safari browser. Federal Trade Commission’s penalty  is the largest FTC penalty for violating a commission order so far. Google was allegedly  using a special code to bypass the settings and install cookies on users’ computers even [...]

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 [...]

U.S. regulators Federal Trade Commission is likely to impose a hefty US $ 22.5 million penalty on Google for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of Apple Safari web browsers users in order to serve targeted ads. Google was allegedly  using a special code to bypass the settings and install cookies on users’ computers even when such actions were supposed to be blocked by the browser. According [...]

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, [...]

Apple successfully convinced a London court today to postpone Judge Colin Birss’s order which requires Apple to post to its Web site and a number of British newspapers a notice explaining that  Samsung’s Galaxy tablets do not infringe the iPad’s design. The order is postponed until October, when Apple will have a chance to appeal it. Apple was directed to link to the court’s judgement [...]

 Samsung shipped 52.1 million smartphones, double the number of iPhones shipped by its leading rival  Apple in the second quarter of 2012 according to estimates by Juniper Research. Samsung’s numbers were mainly due to its flagship phone Galaxy S3 which achieved sales of 10 million in June.   Other players in the smartphone game aren’t coming out as shiny as Samsung. RIM shipped 7.4m [...]

Apple’s iPad accounted for 68.3 percent of global tablet shipments last quarter according to Strategy Analytics. Global tablet shipments grew 67 percent annually in Q2 2012,that’s up nearly 10 percent from the fourth quarter of 2012, and up 7 percent year-on-year. Peter King, Director at Strategy Analytics, said, “Global tablet shipments reached 24.9 million units in Q2 2012, jumping [...]