Android emerged the big winner as global worldwide smartphone sales soared 50 per cent during the second quarter, according to the bean counters at Gartner.
Londoners in the Covent Garden area are warned that they can expect to hear disturbingly high levels of corporate-sponsored whooping, over-excited palm-slapping and team co-ordinated celebratory street laps as the ghastly phenomenon that is an Apple Store launch rolls into town.
Android smartphones continue to soar in popularity, with a new report showing that worldwide shipments have jumped an incredible 886 per cent year-on-year from the second quarter of 2009.
Google Android’s share of the UK mobile phone contract market has soared over the last three months, rising more than 300% from the beginning of 2010, according to retail watcher GfK.
Perhaps not the most surprisingly news you’ll hear this week, but HP Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley has confirmed that his company will not be making any Windows Phone 7 devices, and will instead focus entirely on their newly-acquired webOS for all upcoming smartphones.
If you thought Apple’s last quarter earnings of $15.7bn were obscenely high, then you’ll find Microsoft’s latest tally positively indecent, with the company announcing record-breaking fourth-quarter revenue of an eye watering $16.04 billion.
Apple has announced its earnings for Q3 2010 (ending June 26th) and they’re obscenely vast, with the company posting revenue of $15.7 billion for the last quarter with earnings per diluted share coming in at an almighty $3.51 – up from $2.01/share in Q3 of last year.
International sales made up just over half (52%) of Apple’s quarterly revenue, while the company’s gross margin was 39.1% (compared to 40.9% from a year ago).
Google has released its second quarter 2010 earnings report and, put simply, they’re positively raking in the greenbacks.
Apple have announced that they will be holding a press conference this Friday, June 16th, at 10AM Pacific Time, and are expected to be finally addressing the iPhone 4 dodgy antenna issue.
Ever since it was discovered that holding an iPhone 4 in a certain way can result in a loss of signal (and sometimes dropped calls ), a major PR disaster for Apple has been brewing.
Seventeen years after launching, Britain’s first ever magazine dedicated to PC gaming is to close its doors for good.
If more evidence were needed of the business-repelling qualities of Microsoft’s deeply flawed Vista operating system, further proof comes in the shape of an astonishing statistic that reveals that nearly three quarters (74%) of business PC’s are still running Ye Olde XP.
It’s a rubbish name alright, but Orange UK and T-Mobile UK have finally got around to integrating with each other, with all employees working for the new ‘Everything Everywhere’ brand.
Apple may not be keen on the idea of tablets with built in video cameras, but Cisco reckon businesses are going to be mad for it, and have unveiled a 7-inch tablet designed for real-time conferencing and collaboration.
The web may be endlessly buzzing with stories about the iThis, the iThat, Google, Facebook and Twitter, but the team at Microsoft have just coughed loudly and kicked over a big sheet of stats to remind us all who the boss is around these parts.
Research In Motion (RIM) – makers of the Blackberry line of handsets – broke a company record yesterday as it shipped no less than 11.2 million BlackBerries in the last quarter – adding up to a 43 percent increase over the sales for the same period last year.
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