iOS

Sales of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad dropped to 14.6 million units during Q2 2013, resulting in a 25 percent decline from the previous quarter. The sales slump caused Apple's market share to drop to 35 percent -- the lowest ever since the iPad was introduced more than three years ago. According...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just updated its Chrome smartphone browser again – this time for iOS devices, according to MacWorld. The new and updated features, while not groundbreaking, are significant. They include an accessible history, improved voice search, upgraded text-to-speech, and a full...

OAO Mobile TeleSystems, the largest cellular service provider in Russia, has no desire to go back to carrying Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. The carrier (which is also known simply as MTS) dropped the popular smartphone last year after enduring years of high subsidies. "Apple wants operators to...

Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) re-design of iOS under the management of famed Apple hardware designer Jony Ive has gone from rumor to generally accepted as fact. Among the most notable changes is the reported flat graphical design. 9to5mac reported a source as saying that the new interface is “very,...

Facebook Home (NASDAQ: FB) has officially crossed the 500,000 installations mark. According to Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) download page for the new app, the installations fall somewhere between 500k and one million. This is significantly lower than the download estimate from Global Equities Research...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) may not be able to bring its new app launcher to iOS, but iPhone users can soon gain access to one of Home's most popular features. Chat Heads, the messaging feature that delivers pictures of your Facebook friends instead of the traditional (imageless) notifications, is being...

Less than 12 hours ago, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) was rumored to be in talks with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) about the possibility of bringing the Home launcher to iOS and Windows Phone 8. The rumor stemmed from a Bloomberg report, which quoted Adam Mosseri, Facebook's director...

BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) is denying reports that Z10 returns are exceeding sales. The smartphone maker responded by saying that the report is "absolutely false." "Our data shows that return rates for BlackBerry Z10 devices both in the U.S. and on a global basis are in line with or better than...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is only minutes away from announcing its newest product, service or software update and analysts are weighing in on the rumors. "If the rumor of HTC + FB Android phone is true, then it is bad for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) -- and this may have led to Andy Rubin getting fired --...

There are two prevailing trends that follow Android and iOS. Every year, both platforms grow massively, adding millions of additional customers to these platforms. At the same time, Android's accelerated growth is slowly catching up to (and in some cases surpassing) iOS. Opera Software, the...

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is giving developers 36 hours to port their existing apps to BlackBerry 10. Those who do could be paid $100 for their efforts. The company has set aside a total of $500,000 for developers who deliver the goods, which could lead to an influx of 5,000 new apps. "...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) may take the lead with average Joes and Janes, but investors have another viewpoint. More often than not, they prefer Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android. In a new poll conducted by Yahoo Finance (NASDAQ: YHOO), the site asked investors the following question: "A judge denies...

With an estimated 1.3 million Android activations per day, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is believed to have a "generational lead" over its competitors -- except Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, sent a note to investors outlining...

A new study by DigiTimes Research found that shipments of the Windows Phone platform -- both WP7 and WP8 -- will increase by 150 percent next year. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) partners are expected to ship 52.5 million units in 2013. This will enable the Windows maker to gain 6.1 percent of the...

Samsung sold more than 97 million mobile phones in the third quarter, besting Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone by more than 74 million units. According to Gartner (NYSE: IT), nearly 428 million mobile phones were sold during the quarter. Approximately 23.5 million of those phones were manufactured by...