Apple appears to be distancing itself from its main competitor in the mobile OS wars, finishing with a 46% market share in a June survey compared to Google’s 32%. For months, Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems have been shoulder-to-shoulder in the race, with almost identical shares of 36% and 35% respectively as of [...]
Fresh out of a sick leave, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is set to unveil a new operating system at a developers’ conference next week. The OS, dubbed “Lion,” will be revealed alongside iOS 5, the new version of the mobile OS powering the iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad. Also in the lineup is iCloud, Apple’s [...]
Of the many rivalries in the smartphone industry, the Android vs. Windows question has plagued smartphone users for perhaps the longest time—and no side seems to be giving way. BlueStacks, a Silicon Valley startup, may just have the answer for undecided users: why not get both? Working on its ideal of a pro-choice mobile market [...]
Google and Apple have long fought over whose mobile operating system—Google’s Android or Apple’s iOS—is used on more devices. Consumer research group Nielsen Co. put an end to the bickering (at least for the moment) with its first quarter report, which declares Google the market winner. Nielsen’s latest numbers show that Android has the biggest [...]
Search giant Google Inc. was ordered to pay $5 million in fines by an Eastern District of Texas court for using Linux technology, patented by Bedrock Computer Technologies, in its Android operating system. Bedrock, which filed the patent in 1997 and received it in 1999, wants to stop Google from using its Linux kernel code. [...]
