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App developers deserting Android in favour of iOS says Flurry

by Kenny Hemphill on 13 December 2011 in News

Google chairman, Eric Schmidt may think that developers will soon flock to Android because that platform has a bigger share of the smartphone market than iOS, but new evidence points in the opposite direction. Schmidt told an audience at Le Web in Paris last week that ‘Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume [...]

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Apple updates GarageBand for iOS and adds iPhone support

by Kenny Hemphill on 1 November 2011 in News
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Apple has updated the iOS version of GarageBand and made it available to iPhone and iPod touch users. The app works in the same way on the iPhone and iPod touch as it does in the iPad, though there are changes to the interface to accommodate the smaller screen size. Contextual menus have been added [...]

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Apple announces record results as Mac takes 5% of worldwide PC sales

by Kenny Hemphill on 19 October 2011 in News

Apple announced yesterday that it made $6.62bn in the July-September quarter, an increase of 54% on last year and a record for the company. Revenue for the period was $28.27bn, a rise of 39% on the year ago quarter. Mac sales rose by 26% from last year, making a total of 4.9m worldwide, a quarterly [...]

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iPad soaring or iPad screwed: two different views on the same data

by Kenny Hemphill on 12 September 2011 in Comment

Figures to be published later this week by Kantar Worldpanel ComTec show that 73% of UK tablet owners have an iPad. They also show that half of those who intend to buy a tablet in the next 12 months say they will choose an iPad, with fewer than 7% choosing any of the alternatives and a sizeable 28% saying they are undecided.

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Airlines ditch flight manuals for iPads

by Kenny Hemphill on 24 August 2011 in News
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United Airlines is to give an iPad to each of its 11,000 pilots over the next few months as a replacement for paper flight manuals. United, which merged with Continental Airlines last year, hopes that the move will make it easier and quicker for pilots to access real-time information.

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Samsung Galaxy tablet EU ban overturned

by Kenny Hemphill on 16 August 2011 in News

A court in Dusseldorf has lifted the injunction it granted Apple last week, which prevented Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all European Union countries except the Netherlands.

The initial injunction banned Samsung’s Korean-based parent company and its German subsidiary from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the EU.

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