Report: Apple Has 39% of Smartphone Market

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Apple continued to top the ranks of the world’s smartphone manufacturers and Google’s Android continued as the #1 smartphone platform during the three month period ending March, according to the latest from the comScore MobiLens market research service. Apple smartphones accounted for 39% of OEM...Learn More

Vonage Mobile® Adds Video Calling

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HOLMDEL, NJ – Apr. 18, 2013 — Today Vonage announced that its mobile suite has become even sweeter with the addition of video calling to its free, high-definition communications app, Vonage Mobile®, for iPhone® and Android™ devices. With this new upgrade, Vonage Mobile continues to...Learn More

Arbitron: iPhone Owners Most Likely to Use Mobile Commerce Apps

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Apple iPhone users make more and greater use of mobile e-commerce apps than their Android smartphone user counterparts, according to a new Arbitron study. More than two-thirds (67.5%) of iPhone users use mobile apps for commerce as compared to 43.9% of Android users, according to...Learn More

ComScore: Smartphones Now 57% of Mobile Device Market

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Apple topped the ranks of U.S. smartphone manufacturers and Google the ranks of smartphone platform providers in the three-month period through the end of February, according to comScore’s latest MobiLens smartphone research service. There were 133.7 million smartphone owners in the U.S. as of the...Learn More

Report: Smaller Tablets Gaining Favor

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Recent market data indicate a decided shift on the part of tablet buyers towards smaller formats: while sales of 9.7″ tablets collapsed from 7.4 million to 1.3 million in January, sales of devices measuring between 7″ and 9″ rose from 12 million to 14 million,...Learn More

The Half-life of Web TV Devices

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Like most households, ours has a TV routine in which we watch certain programs.  The other day, we wanted to see what else was on and because we have Google TV, we also get the Web and online video on our TV.  Our version of...Learn More

Report: Half of Smartphones Sold are from Apple or Samsung

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Global smartphone shipments totaled a record high 700 million in 2012, a 43% year-over-year increase, according to the latest data from Strategy Analytics. Samsung’s star outshone that of other handset manufacturers, in capturing a 30% share of the worldwide market and widening its lead over...Learn More

Consumer Cellular Expands Retail Presence at Sears

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January 22, 2013 — PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Consumer Cellular (www.consumercellular.com), the number one rated cellphone service for the third consecutive year and exclusive wireless provider for AARP members, is expanding its retail presence within Sears stores nationwide beginning in January. The expansion includes new smartphone and...Learn More

ABI: More Than Half of 2014 Handset Shipments Will Be Smartphones

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Having skyrocketed as Apple released a string of innovative and pioneering portable and wireless devices over the past decade, Apple’s share price has – uncharacteristically – been a laggard recently, even as broad stock market indices reached new five-year highs. A new report from ABI...Learn More

Sprint Supports Multi-Media with Entertain ME

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OVERLAND PARK, KS – Jan 8, 2013 — Sprint (NYSE:S) announced today the launch of Entertain ME, a service within the Sprint Zone application that provides customers using select Android™-powered smartphones a single place to discover, purchase, listen to and personalize their entertainment experience for...Learn More

Report: Christmas 2012 Activations Illustrate Smart Device Domination

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Maintaining a holiday tradition, users activated more “smart,” connected Android and iOS devices on Christmas Day 2012 than any other day of the year, reports Flurry.com’s Peter Farrago in a Dec. 27 blog post. Moreover, this Christmas Day was a record setter. “On this Christmas...Learn More

IDC: Rapid Smartphone Growth, but Slow Growth in Mobile Phones Overall

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Global mobile phone shipments will grow 1.4% year-over-year (YoY) in 2012, the lowest rate in three years, according to IDC. That’s despite what’s projected to be a record-high level of smartphone shipments this holiday season. Smartphone shipments will reach 224.5 million units globally in 4Q...Learn More