Devices running Google's Android operating system have dethroned Apple's iPhones and iPads as the biggest drivers of worldwide mobile ad traffic, according to a new study from Opera Mediaworks.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a>'s well-documented <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/040711-google-rubin-android.html">fragmentation issues</a> apparently <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/gartner-big-challenges-lurk-building-enterpri">aren't deterring consumers</a> from snatching up Android phones.
Nokia's new <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221198/Update_Nokia_unveils_first_Windows_phones">Windows Phone 7.5-based Lumia smartphones</a> won't cause many problems for Android-based devices and the iPhone in the U.S., three analysts predicted Wednesday.
Several of Microsoft's business productivity applications will be available for free on Nokia's latest Symbian Belle smartphones later this year, Nokia announced Thursday.
Pop quiz: Can you name every smartphone platform that's more popular than Windows Phone 7? Go on. We dare you.
We knew it was going to happen, but Nokia's finally made it official: the company is killing off Symbian in North America. Nokia president Chris Weber revealed the (soon) death to AllThingD's Ina Fried on Tuesday.
The latest global market-share estimates for smartphones are out. And as we've come to expect from these regular exercises in mobile OS number-crunching, the news is bright for Apple and Google, but a bit bleak for Nokia, Research In Motion (RIM), and Microsoft.
It's a new month, which means that another research firm has released data showing us that Android and the iPhone are pretty popular.
Nearly 1 billion smartphones will be shipped globally in 2015, almost double the amount for all of 2011, as millions of people seek out the more powerful mobile phones that are dropping in price, market research firm IDC said.
Users of Google's Android operating system have more than tripled in the past year, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Another day, another report saying Android rules the smartphone world, this time from Gartner.
Android has further consolidated its status as the leading global smartphone operating system, according to data released by both Gartner and the Millennial Media mobile ad network.
Android and iOS mobile devices now can be corralled by a Smith Micro device management application unveiled this week at the Interop show in Las Vegas. Client-side code makes even personally-owned devices visible to enterprise IT managers.
Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile platforms have been the proving ground for mobile malware over the past five years, but a new Juniper Networks report states that Google Android now takes "the crown" as the platform getting the most attention from malware developers.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today promised that the company would continue to develop and support Skype on rival platforms.