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Is Android shutting up shop?

by Kenny Hemphill on 15 April 2011 in Analysis

You may have noticed that the iPad 2 became available outside the US recently. Apparently there were one or two people milling around outside Apple retail stores waiting for it to go on sale at 5pm one Friday afternoon. Despite the huge, pent-up demand for Apple’s latest tablet, however, it enters a world very different [...]

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Android to take half of smartphone market by 2012 says Gartner

by Kenny Hemphill on 8 April 2011 in News

Google’s Android operating system will account for half of all smartphones by 2012, according to research firm, Gartner.

In a forecast issued yesterday, the company predicted that Android would take a significant lead over Apple’s iOS and that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 would take second place by 2015, with 19.5%.

Gartner’s prediction sees both Apple and RIM losing out to Google and Microsoft in terms of market share over the next four years, with HP’s WebOS a long way behind. That market, according to Gartner, will see sales of 468m units in 2011, nearly 60% more than in 2010, rising to 1.1bn units in 2015.

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Apple to sell 34m iPads this year says Barclays Capital

by Kenny Hemphill on 14 February 2011 in News
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Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes, has told his clients to expect iPad sales of 33.7 million in 2011, and total tablet sales of 47 million, according to Barron’s Online.

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Nokia fires back at Apple

by Simon Aughton on 17 December 2010 in News
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Nokia has accused Apple of violating 24 of its phone technology patents

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Google previews tablet Android

by Simon Aughton on 7 December 2010 in News
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Google has given the first public preview of Android designed specifically for tablet devices.

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Apple trains legal guns on Motorola

by Simon Aughton on 1 November 2010 in News
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Apple has filed another lawsuit against Motorola over smartphone technologies, claiming that Motorola’s Droid phone infringes on three patents.

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