Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in a recent interview has let loose criticisms against Windows Phone rivals Android and iOS.
The remarks were made by Ballmer in an interview on Wednesday in Santa Clara, California, TechCrunch reports.
According to the Microsoft CEO, the Android mobile operating system and its ecosystem is “wild”.
Furthermore, he says it is “uncontrolled” and susceptible to malware.
On the other end of the spectrum, he says that the iOS mobile operating system is too …

Gartner says smart device consumerism is a force to reckon with in the IT industry, as it estimates that 821 million smartphones and tablets will be sold in the global market, which will account for 70 percent of all electronic device sales in 2012. The analytics firm expects the sales figure to reach 1.2 billion next year.
On Tuesday, November 6, Gartner analysts gathered at its Symposium/ITxpo 2012 in Barcelona and talked about key trends in smart devices and its effect on the PC market. The …

The tablet market share of the Apple iPad lineup shrunk in the third quarter while Android market share grew, a research firm reveals.
According to Strategy Analytics, the iPad lineup’s tablet market share contracted to 57 percent for the July to September quarter, down 7 percentage point from its 64 percent market share showing for the same quarter a year ago.
Meanwhile, Android tablets continue to eat up market share as they now account for 41 percent of the whole tablet market.
While still …

Authorities in France have arrested a 20-year-old hacker who was defrauding smartphone users via malicious apps.
According to the BBC, the hacker who has been described as “extremely smart”, used fake apps purporting to be popular apps to amass about 500,000 Euros since last year.
Authorities say that the hacker did not study computer science.
The hacker whose name has not been revealed reportedly worked from his parent’s home in Northern France and developed apps which he offered free to …

Apple and Google will have such a dominant year in 2012 in the smartphone market that the market share of the two companies combined will leave almost nothing to rivals.
The prediction comes from Trip Chowdhry, an analyst at the financial research company Global Equities Research.
In an interview with eWeek, the analyst said that Apple and Google will be so prevailing in the smartphone market that there will not be a third place left in market share standings this year.
“There will not be any …

The smartphone application market is very large and has grown exponentially in recent years. This is due to the large number of applications, a good thing in terms of variety. From a practical standpoint, we like to look through hundreds of offers to find an application that we need. To this end, Playboard Best App Guide has been launched.
Before discussing about this application, we will need to bring into question the discovery of applications and social network service, called AppAware, …

Google now claims to have activated more than half a billion devices running on its Android mobile operating system.
The company revealed the data a few hours before Apple launched its new iPhone 5, with Android product manager saying this is a “big day” for the little robot.
“Today is a big day for Android,” he said in a post to Google+.
“500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day.”
For a while now, the number of …

The two dominant mobile operating platforms today, Android and iOS, are continuing to gain market share in the US at the expense of the BlackBerry platform.
New data from comScore reveals that Google’s and Apple’s mobile operating systems gained more market share in the US for the May to July quarter.
Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS continues to slide in market share.
 
BlackBerry Declines as Android, iOS Continue Growth

According to comScore, for the months of May, June and …

Acer is developing new smartphones and the company has confirmed that it will unveil five new Android smartphones and a Windows Phone smartphone next year.
The information comes direct from Acer President Jim Wong who told Digitimes of the company’s plans.
According to the Digitimes report, Acer will be marketing the smartphones in the European, Chinese, and South East Asian regions next year.
Specifically, Acer wants to gain market share in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and India for …

During the launch of the new Motorola model, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, has made public a series of data that reveals Android’s progress.
According to the figures announced yesterday evening, the number of daily activated Android terminals reached 1.3 million, an impressive jump from the 900,000 daily activations announced by Andy Rubin in June this year. Due to the increased adoption rate, the total number of Android terminals activated until earlier this month reached the …