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by Alex Dobie
Jun 10, 2013
iOS 7, OS X 10.9 expected - follow the announcements live on iMore
Whatever your mobile OS of choice, new stuff from Apple is big news. And at today's WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 29, 2013
Android version is more fluid, and is still the best Google Now experience
There's a little excitement this morning in the iOS camp as the Google Search app has been updated, brining Go...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 24, 2013
There's no Vine app for Android just yet, but that doesn't mean you can escape its 6-second video onslaught
Twitter and Vine today announced that (1) Vine is now available for iOS device...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 13, 2012
In case you missed it overnight, Google Maps is back on iOS. (No iPad version yet.) And it's pretty damn good, as you'd expect from a Google app.
And now that we look at it, Google's go...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 13, 2012
Just a week before the Mayan Apocalypse, Google Maps is back on iOS. It actually looks pretty good, and should help keep folks out of dingo territory. Rene and company are looking it over, expect al...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 15, 2012
A recent smartphone platform study of China shows that Android is absolutely dominating the landscape with 90.1% market share. Over the last quarter, iOS dropped from 6% to 4.2%, though keep in mind...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 14, 2012
Gartner has released their research numbers for the third quarter of 2012, and they've found that Android accounted for 72.4% of mobile sales worldwide, which is up from 52.5% at the same time l...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 07, 2012
Mary Meeker, an investment partner at KPCB, has given a preview of her annual Internet Trends report recently, and is showing that the growth in Android smartphones is six times that of iPhone. This...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 30, 2012
Google today let loose a new version of its Search app for iOS devices. Is it as good as the voice search you find in Android and Google Now? When it comes to results, yes. That is to say, when we t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 25, 2012
According to the folks at Strategy Analytics, market share for Android based tablets has risen to 41-percent of the total, or just shy of 25 million units. This growth means that double the number o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 28, 2012
It's not every day that Apple has to admit one of its own products, well, sucks. (Hell, it's not very often that Apple releases a product that's not at least as good as the alternatives....
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by Richard Devine
Sep 16, 2012
Here's a fun little story as we approach the end of another weekend. New Yahoo CEO, Marissa Meyer, has kicked off a new program at the company that will see all employees receive a brand new sma...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 15, 2012
Google has authored J2ObjC, an open-source tool that can convert all the non-UI bits of Java code into Objective-C source code for use in iOS apps. It's not the first translator of this type we&...
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by Andrew Martonik
Sep 12, 2012
So we've already thrown down the gauntlet comparing all aspects of the Samsung Galaxy SIII (S3) and the iPhone 5, and again between the HTC One X and iPhone 5. Just last week, Motorola took the ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 12, 2012
Next up is the showdown between HTC's flagship One X and the iPhone 5. Much like the Galaxy S3 (Galaxy S III), it's more than just differences in the tech specs, as Android has provided...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 12, 2012
Now that the dust is settling, it's time to start the comparisons! We're pretty big Android fans around here, and we've got to talk about how the iPhone 5 matches up to Samsung's Gal...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 11, 2012
Tomorrow's iPhone Day, in case you haven't heard. Or it's Apple Day. Either one is fine, we're told.
Us? We like to refer to it as Rex Manning Day.
Anyhoo. You've got to ...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Aug 08, 2012
The International Data Corporation (IDC) released its Q2 2012 data today, which shows Android maintaining a firm lead in both market share and overall shipments between April and June. Android&rsquo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 06, 2012
If you're connected to the Internet, you've probably heard that Apple has dropped support for their Youtube app in the upcoming version of iOS. You might have even heard that it's part o...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 25, 2012
Matt Gemmell, iOS developer and author on Apple-centric sites and publications such as MacFormat and Tap!, has written a post on his blog about how "Android was designed for piracy from the gro...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 02, 2012
It's not all doom and gloom in the Android world. Comscore just released its findings for the three months ending in May, and they are as follows:
Samsung's is the top overall mobile...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 28, 2012
Google has made it clear at Google I/O -- they love Google+ and are going full steam ahead with the social platform. We don't blame them, as we think with the right nurturing it can stand out am...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 28, 2012
Day two at Google I/O has brought forth a lot of Chrome and Google Drive news. One highlight being that Chrome and Google Drive will be coming to iOS later today. Of course, this is a great thing to...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 28, 2012
It's worth mentioning that for everything we saw in the Day 1 keynote at Google I/O, one "feature" of years past was noticeably absent -- there weren't any major jabs at Apple and ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jun 22, 2012
Samsung has announced that it's partnered with developer Mushroom Media to bring the company's Easy Phone Sync application to owners of Galaxy smartphones and tablets. As the name suggests, ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 11, 2012
We knew it was going to happen, right? Apple has ditched Google Maps for iOS, rolling its own in-house cartographic solution, including turn-by-turn navigation, which has never been as good on the f...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 09, 2012
Google is showing off the new sexy with the Google+ app update, but unfortunately only iOS users get to see it for now. Things like full bleed pictures, crisper sharp fonts, larger profile pics and ...
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by Anndrew Vacca
May 01, 2012
comScore just took the wraps off its data for the first quarter of 2012, and it confirms what we’ve been seeing over the past few months: in the U.S., Samsung and Android are the manufactur...
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by Richard Devine
Apr 14, 2012
We've all seen this picture before right? Well, over in China this is quite literally what is happening in their mobile market. While 1-in-10 people in the worlds most populated country own an i...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 12, 2012
Ever have that feeling of deja Déjà vu? It's happening right now for me with some new images having shown up of what is purported to be BlackBerry Messenger on Android. We've s...
