The folks from Swissinfo, the neutral Swiss broadcasting corporation have launched a new universal version of their app today, to promote Swiss TV and radio content across the iPhone and iPad, as well as Android.
According to a recent survey, 89 percent of iPhone owners will stick with Apple when it comes to purchasing their next smart phone handset. This figure placed Apple ahead of every other manufacturer in terms of smart phone retention rate, with HTC's 39 percent earning the company the position of second place.
Dolphin Browser is a Web browsing app for your iPhone/iPod touch. Made popular by the Android operating system, this interesting app is now available for iOS.
Just moments ago, Google founder and CEO Larry Page announced, in a blog post, his company's intention to purchase Motorola Mobility, the mobile division of the American-based networking giant and longtime Android supporter for about $12.5 billion.
Here's an impressive piece of information for you: Apple's "magical and revolutionary" iPad, which originally hit Apple Stores back in March, last year, now accounts for over one percent of worldwide Web browsing. The news comes in a report published by NetMarketShare, which hit the Web recently.
The numbers do not lie: 453 days after the iPad debuted on April 3, 2010, there are now over 100,000 apps available for it for download. While this milestone is important, it means nothing unless compared to the competition and by looking at what it means for the future of iOS.
Each smartphone OS provider has its own set of rules and procedures to follow. Now the folks at [x] cube labs have made it easy to compare those offerings by releasing an easy-to-read chart, which we’ve presented here.
Figures recently released by the GSMA highlight that in the UK, Apple's mobile operating system accounts for 65 percent of connected application users.
Android's market share may tower over the iPhone's, but that doesn't mean Google's mobile operating system is invincible. In fact, Android's smart phone market share recently declined, leading one analyst to believe that Android will lose even more market share once the iPhone 5 hits stores.
Apple's recently unveiled iOS 5 sure looks good, but how does it compare with its rivals? One recently published chart outlines the features of Apple's iOS 5, and compares them against Android 2.3 ("Gingerbread"), Windows Phone 7 ("Mango") and BlackBerry 7 OS.
In an article that recently hit the Web, one Wall Street observer has offered a piece of free advise to Samsung, Motorola, RIM and other iPad-competing tablet-makers. The advice, in short, involves reducing prices - because according to the observer (Numura Securities analyst Richard Windsor), iPad-competing tablets "have to be cheap."
IDC has recently released a new long term forecast for the worldwide smart phone markets, in which the group sees the iOS' market share decrease by 2015 and Android's to increase.
Thirteen months after its debut, the iPad remains the tablet market leader, despite the recent onslaught of Android-based tablets coming to market. According to one CEO, Apple’s dominance is the result of three factors. Only after addressing each of these will Apple’s competitors have any chance of weakening the dominant player.