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A recent study might give RIM some real stress despite its growth. IT indicates that 40% of current BlackBerry owners would exchange their mobile phone for an iPhone, or an Android-based model. The same study indicates that 90% of owners of Google OS-based phone would take another model based on the same system. This study [...]

Sun Microsystems’ loss was Google’s gain on Monday, as former Sun guru Tim Bray announced that he’s joined Google’s Android push in the role of Developer Advocate. “Google and I have been a plausible match for a long time,” Bray wrote in a blog post announcing the decision. “Web-centric, check. Search, check. Open-source, check. The [...]

Analyst Charlie Wolf with Needham & Company said Friday he believes the open source community, which has backed Google's Android mobile operating system against the iPhone, has the wrong take on Apple's patent lawsuit against rival handset maker HTC.

Given the growing popularity of mobile devices and the great many applications to go with them, you would think that this new niche had plenty of room for newcomers. Many of those newcomers, though, will find it difficult to capture a great deal of consumer attention. Places like the Android Market and the Apple App [...]

Many factors likely fueled Apple’s lawsuit against mobile handset manufacturer HTC. Patent suits have become a competitive weapon — one that any company dare not allow its rival to use without using it as well. Lawsuits are sometimes filed because a firm believes it’s about to be slapped with one. There’s a case to be [...]

A declaration by the Vice President of operations of Google is likely to light a fire between Google and the providers of traditional OS, Microsoft and Apple. He thinks that in 3 years time the desktop machines such as they are conceived today will be obsolete. The future would belong to smaller devices, in a [...]

Even hough HTC is directly targeted by the complaint of Apple accusing them of violating 20 of their patents, Google is also targeted via the devices that use Android and especially Nexus One manufactured by HTC. The two companies reacted to the announcement by Apple. HTC announced or rather declared to the Taiwan stock exchange that [...]

Although Google makes the Android mobile operating system, the search giant's chief competitor, Yahoo, will be the default provider on AT&T's first Android-powered handset, due to be released March 7.

A study reported by AdMob indicates that iPhone owners are downloading in average 8.5 application per month. This figure is now identical for Android-based mobile phone owners. The iPod Touch gives Apple the lading position with 12 application downloaded in average per month.Without much surprise, 90% of those apps are downloaded from the huge catalog [...]

Apple has charged handset maker HTC with infringing upon a number of patented iPhone hardware and software features, alleging that functionality within the Google Android operating system and use of hardware decoders in Windows Mobile handsets are at fault.

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