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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 [...]

Apple has slashed prices for some models of its 13″ Retina MacBook Pro and 13″ MacBook Air along with bumping the 13″ and 15″ Retina MacBook Pros with slightly faster processors. ‘Apple is making the MacBook Pro with Retina display faster and more affordable with updated processors and lower starting prices. The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display now starts at $1,499 [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook today announced that Apple had paid out $8B to developers during the last quarter, an increase of US $1 Billion since the last time numbers were announced last month. The increase in payouts demonstrates that the developer ecosystem of iOS continues to be vibrant, especially as it represents actual paid downloads of apps, not free downloads or overall share,” says Matthew Panzarino [...]

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 [...]

Twitter’s new video sharing platform, Vine is causing the company some embarassment, some people have been using it for porn ads and naked images. By searching for the tags “#porn” or similar NSFW words, you can find content featuring exhibitionists of various stripes as well as porn video taken directly from laptop screens. The app, which is currently only available for iPhone and iPod Touch, [...]

Apple released OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3 to developers after releasing build 12D50 earlier this month on Jan. 8 with no known issues. Apple says that the new build includes significant changes to WiFi, developers have been asked to focus their testing on AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, Graphics Drivers, and Safari. Apple’s latest release have touted a new “OS X Software Update Seed Configuration [...]

Apple will soon announce its iPad 5 according to the rumors which stemmed from Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White observations from this week’s CES in Las Vegas, U.S. White noted “Our checks at CES indicate Apple will release the iPad 5 and the second-generation iPad mini this March. The iPad 5 is expected to be lighter and thinner than the iPad 4 that was released in October, while [...]

Apple  today announced that nearly 20 billions apps were downloaded in 2012 from its App Store, bringing the total number of App Store downloads to 40 billion. “The App Store℠ has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month. Apple’s incredible developer community has created over 775,000 apps for iPhone®, iPad® and [...]

328 million apps were downloaded on Christmas Day, along with  17.4 million new iOS and Android device activation according to Flurry Analytics. “More iOS and Android devices are activated on Christmas Day than on any other day of the year. This year was no exception. On this Christmas Day 2012, more iPhones, iPads, Galaxy’s, Kindle Fires, and more, were activated than on any other day [...]