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ComScore, Inc, leading company in digital world, has just released a new report that shows key trends in the mobile market in the US in the three months period ended May 2010, with data being compared to the previous three months. The report was aimed at ranking the leading mobile OEMs and smartphone platforms in th... |
9 July 2010
16:11 GMT |
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On Monday, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced the release of new handsets, included in the company's Optimus series. According to LG, the new LG Optimus Series should prove a lineup of innovative devices the pack the latest advancements in the mobile space, while being meant to highlight L... |
6 July 2010
03:02 GMT |
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iPhone 4, the latest version of Apple's highly-popular mobile device, has just been put on sale in various markets around Europe, with impressive pre-order levels, and with great expectations for the first day of availability. The launch of iPhone 4 builds on the success its predecessors enjoyed and, since ther... |
24 June 2010
07:09 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just issued a press-release announcing the lowering of its forecast for the second quarter of the ongoing year. According to the company, a series of factors negatively impacted its business in the quarter, including a competitive environment, which was felt mainly at the high-en... |
17 June 2010
04:18 GMT |
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According to a new report from comScore, Inc., covering the three-month period ending April 2010, the leading mobile phone maker in the US market was Samsung, which accounted for 22.1 percent of the market. Moreover, the report, which was aimed at the mobile subscribers market, shows that Verizon Wireless was the le... |
7 June 2010
02:55 GMT |
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The smartphone segment of the market is registering increasing growth, and companies focused mainly on this area are reportedly gaining a bigger share on the global mobile phone market. According to a recent report from iSuppli, RIM and Apple managed to rise up to the fifth and sixth place on the worldwide market (f... |
18 May 2010
12:31 GMT |
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Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is steadily picking up pace on the smartphone market. The company has become popular around the world courtesy of its Windows Mobile and Android-based handsets, and the latest reports show that it started to gain more market share, in the detriment of rivals like Motoro... |
13 May 2010
11:04 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia reportedly accounts for 90 percent of the mobile handset market in its homeland, a recent report unveils. The Helsinki University of Technology published a market research covering the 2005-2009 time frame, showing that most of the Finns use devices produced by Nokia, an... |
11 May 2010
05:11 GMT |
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Leading market research company The NPD Group recently published a new market research according to which Google's Android operating system is moving closer to taking the leading position in the US. According to the research firm, the Android OS took the second position from Apple in Q1, and it accounts for 28 ... |
10 May 2010
12:23 GMT |
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Chinese handset manufacturer ZTE has great plans for the mobile phone market. According to the company, it is capable of becoming the third maker by shipment volumes within the next four years, joining Nokia and Samsung in top three vendors on the market, and sending South Korean manufacturer LG Electronics on the f... |
10 May 2010
11:17 GMT |
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The number of smartphones (converged mobile devices) that were shipped during the first quarter of the ongoing year increased by 56.7 percent when compared to the same time frame a year ago, reaching 54.7 million units, the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows. Moreover... |
7 May 2010
09:47 GMT |
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Google's Android mobile operating system seems to have conquered the hearts of mobile phone users in the UK already. More and more people in the country are considering the purchase of a device powered by this platform, and the popularity of Android increased considerably during the past month. According to the... |
4 May 2010
09:13 GMT |
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The worldwide handset shipments reached 303 million during the first quarter of the ongoing year, a recently published report from ABI Research shows. According to the research firm, this marks an increase of around 19 percent when compared to the first three months of the last year, which shows that the global phon... |
3 May 2010
06:33 GMT |
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Microsoft has officially announced the sales target for the latest version of the Windows client, and, while extremely high, it is in no way beyond the company’s reach. Speaking at the CeBIT Global Conference, in Hanover, Germany on March 4, 2010, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner revealed that the... |
5 March 2010
11:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has sold in excess of 90 million copies of Windows 7 after just four months since the operating system hit store shelves. Windows 7’s official launch was on October 22nd, 2009, although the platform had been finalized months earlier with the RTM on July 22nd. At the start of 2010, Microsoft Chief Exec... |
3 March 2010
10:46 GMT |
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Coincidentally, today, February 22nd, 2010 is Windows 7’s forth month of general availability, as the operating system hit the shelves on October 22nd, 2009. A research study from Janco Associates indicates that the latest iteration of the Windows client is simply crushing its predecessor in terms of the adopti... |
22 February 2010
11:14 GMT |
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According to as recently published report from comScore, Windows Mobile, the operating system delivered to the market by the Redmond-based software giant Microsoft, was present in around 18 percent of the smartphone on the United States market at the end of December 2009. The new market share the mobile platform acc... |
9 February 2010
10:33 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung, the second largest handset vendor all around the world, plans on bringing to the market the first smartphone powered by its own operating system, bada, sometime in March or April this year. The company has announced officially the launch of its bada OS in December last year, ... |
5 February 2010
11:03 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia has reportedly cut the price tag of some of its handsets in an attempt to lure more consumers into buying its products. The company is said to have performed a price cut for a series of its devices in late January, and that its cheapest smartphones are now sporting about... |
2 February 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Microsoft was quick, albeit more than entitled to applaud Windows 7 for being the fastest selling operating system in history, but fact is that the latest Windows client is enjoying nothing short of stellar adoption. At least in some markets; case in point: Redmond, the software giant’s home. Redmondians must ... |
2 February 2010
03:17 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced today its financial results for the fourth quarter of the last year, and posted net sales of EUR 12.0 billion, marking a decrease of 5 percent when compared to the same quarter a year ago and an increase of 22 percent when compared to the previous quarter. At the same time,... |
28 January 2010
08:40 GMT |
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Intel is predominantly a CPU maker and its integrated graphics solutions have so far not been able to come very close to matching the high-end performance of solutions from AMD and NVIDIA. However, even though NVIDIA and ATI are generally seen as the two big names in the graphics industry, it seems that, statisticall... |
26 January 2010
09:13 GMT |
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According to one of the more recent studies completed by IDC, the worldwide demand for central processing units based on the x86 architecture "achieved all-time record levels for a single quarter" during the fourth quarter of 2009. What is especially notable about the past quarter, however, is the fact that Advanced ... |
26 January 2010
08:31 GMT |
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According to a recently published report from IDC, Google's mobile operating system, the already popular Android, is expected to become the second operating system on the market by 2013. IDC also forecasts that the total shipments of smartphones are expected to surpass 390 million units by that year, and that t... |
25 January 2010
08:59 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia is expected to see its handset shipments moving on an ascendant curve during the ongoing year, Nokia’s new mobile phones Head, Rick Simonson, stated recently in an interview. The company aims at registering a faster growth than other handset vendors, he also mentioned, adding t... |
5 January 2010
09:20 GMT |
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As 2009 comes to an end, our news editors are busy putting together all sorts of roundups and tops. I was curious to see how the main web browsers fared this year in terms of market share. On Softpedia, of course! We checked our 2009 web traffic analytics info and think the data is pretty interesting, so we’re ... |
31 December 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system seems to be losing more market share, at least this is what some of the latest reports and surveys have showed. Analysts also forecast that the mobile platform has already lost the battle in front of more appealing and more popular solutions, yet things might not be a... |
19 December 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system is gaining more and more fans all around the world, a recent report from digital measurement firm comScore shows. According to the firm, the main reason for the increased popularity of the platform is the availability of the Motorola DROID at Verizon, and due to the ad campaign... |
18 December 2009
03:49 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung, the worldwide second runner in the mobile phone market, has reportedly managed to secure and maintain the leadership on the UK market, sending Nokia, the global handset leader, on the second position. The company is said to account for around 30 percent of the market in the c... |
16 December 2009
02:43 GMT |
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It was only recently that the Apple iPhone made an appearance on the South Korean market, yet it seems that the device is poised for impressive performance in the country. According to KT, the local carrier which launched the iPhone, it already managed to sell around 90,000 units of the iconic device, and it expects... |
14 December 2009
03:38 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system, which is present on the market for about a year now, seems determined to gain an even higher market share than it already has, and also aims at mobile technologies where it hasn't been present before, such as iDEN and WiMAX. According to the latest news around the web, wh... |
7 December 2009
08:29 GMT |
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Mobile advertising agency AdMob has recently released its October Mobile Metrics report on the mobile advertising market, which was focused on how the requests were distributed on mobile phones based on each of the analyzed smartphone operating system. According to the agency, it didn't analyze the distribution ... |
24 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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It looks like the third quarter was not only good for NVIDIA, but for the entire worldwide PC-microprocessor market as well, according to a recently revealed report for research firm IDC. According to the new data, the PC processor-unit shipments rose 23% compared with the second quarter of this year, while the reven... |
9 November 2009
05:29 GMT |
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The worldwide mobile phone market, as many of you might already know, has been greatly impacted by the financial downturn, and it was said on some occasions to be shrinking by about 10 percent during 2009, when compared to the previous year. The third quarter of 2009 has shown some signs of improvement for the market... |
2 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia is the largest handset vendor in the world, and is also the leading maker of dual-mode Wi-Fi handhelds. However, it seems that its market share in the Wi-Fi segment has shrunken when compared to the last year, according to a recent report from In-Stat. While in Q2 2008, t... |
2 November 2009
06:43 GMT |
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A recently published report from iSuppli Corp. shows that Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system is expected to be present on three times more handsets by 2013, compared to the amount of mobile phones that run under it at the moment. Moreover, the report also shows that, although the OS will only be positio... |
2 October 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Mobile phones based on the open-source Symbian platform are expected to see a great increase in shipments over the following five years, a new report from Juniper Research shows. According to the Open Source OS report from the research firm, Symbian handset shipments are to double by 2014, reaching 180 million, up fr... |
1 October 2009
09:06 GMT |
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A recently published report from StatCounter shows that Bing, the recently launched search / decision engine from Redmond-based software company Microsoft, has registered market share loss during September, both on the US market and globally. This is the first month during which Bing sees its market share fall, and S... |
1 October 2009
08:44 GMT |
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Japan-based market research firm Techno Systems Research (TSR) recently stated that 17 percent of the total number of mobile phones shipped during the ongoing year would be smartphones. According to TSR, although the overall handset shipments are expected to decline by 10 percent during 2009, smartphone shipments wil... |
2 September 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Gartner released recently a market research study showing that the mobile phone market went down by about 6 percent during the second quarter of the ongoing year, and that the smartphone area of the market went up by 27 percent during the time frame, compared to the same period a year ago. Among the other findings t... |
14 August 2009
04:29 GMT |
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HTC Corporation announced recently that it expected its revenues for the ongoing year to fall, after it had stated previously that it should see a 10 percent increase. According to the company, some product delays, complemented by lower-than-expected sales on the Chinese market and by bigger-than-expected fall in con... |
3 August 2009
08:27 GMT |
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South Korean company Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd recently announced the earnings results for the second quarter of the ongoing year. Globally, the company registered an 11.7 percent increase in revenues during the quarter on a yearly basis, reaching 32.51 trillion Korean won, and posted 2.52 trillion won operating p... |
27 July 2009
08:32 GMT |
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According to a recent report coming from an analyst at Wachovia Securities Inc., the market performance of the newly launched Palm Pre high-end mobile phone is weaker than previous forecasts showed. Jennifer Fritzsche said in the report that the device seemed to attract only users that were already Sprint's cust... |
19 June 2009
02:39 GMT |
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The launch of the Deneb-based Phenom II line of processors appears to have been rather advantageous for the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices, which, in the first quarter of this year, reportedly gained market share from its main rival, Intel. The chip maker saw strong revenues across its microproces... |
10 June 2009
10:31 GMT |
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According to the latest research reports, the iPhone Safari mobile browser has lost the top position on the market in favor of Opera. The research firm StatCounter has announced recently that the iPhone was outpaced by Opera, and that now we have another king in the mobile browsing area. Opera Mobile is reported to... |
4 June 2009
05:21 GMT |
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Research firm Strategy Analytics reveals in a report that Apple's App Store has captured a 12% market share of the mobile applications in 2008. The App Store’s value, however, has proven to be significantly lower due to intense competition between developers, which has pushed down application prices, Strat... |
22 May 2009
05:32 GMT |
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According to a report Gartner, Inc. has recently published, the global mobile phone market has seen an 8.6 per cent decrease during the first quarter of the ongoing year, when compared to the same period a year ago, reaching a total of 269.1 million units shipped in the time frame. In addition, the report also shows ... |
21 May 2009
03:24 GMT |
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ACCESS CO., LTD., a worldwide provider of software technologies to the mobile market, announced on Tuesday that its NetFront Browser was the standard solution that was shipped with most of the mobile phones in the United States, as well as through operators in the top five European markets (France, Germany, Great Bri... |
20 May 2009
10:17 GMT |
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According to a recently published report coming from The NPD Group, a leading wireless industry market research firm, Apple’s iPhone has lost the first position in the top of the best-selling consumer smartphones in the U.S. for the first quarter of the ongoing year, and its place has been taken by RIM’s ... |
5 May 2009
08:36 GMT |
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Although the financial recession has influenced the mobile phone market a lot, it seems that sales remained strong during the first quarter of the ongoing year, and mobile phone vendors managed to ship a total of 258 million handsets in the three-month time frame. The figure marks an 11 percent drop compared to the s... |
27 April 2009
08:14 GMT |
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