Microsoft has made a fearless forecast of its Windows Phone platform surpassing Apple in China, a new report says.
The comments came from Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for the Greater China region Simon Leung, Bloomberg says.
According to Leung, Windows Phone will pass the Apple iPhone in terms of market share in China on its way to the primary goal of Microsoft which is to displace Android as the dominant mobile operating system in the Chinese market by market share.
As such, …

For the first time in history, China has exceeded the number of activations in the U.S. of Apple iOS and Android devices, a report notes.
The information comes from Flurry Inc., a firm which specializes in tracking software for mobile devices.
Flurry has revealed that there were more activations of iOS and Android devices in China than in the U.S. for the month of February.
Flurry’s report indicates that 23 percent of all activations of iOS and Android devices in the world came from China for …

CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has questioned Google over Android privacy policy matter, reports Bloomberg.
CNIL (The National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties) is acting on behalf of other European regulators, and is trying to determine whether world’s largest web-search provider’s policies for Android running mobile devices violate European privacy laws.
CNIL is also investigating the issue of information collection by Google using “cookies”.
CNIL has sent …

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A new version of the familiar Android operating system and the Linux kernel project released on Tuesday marked a quiet linking of the two disparate projects responsible for much of the existing mobile phone operating systems.
Scientific American reports that Linus Torvalds, the founder and leader of the Linux project, has released Version 3.3 of the Linux kernel, considered as a mainline improvement of the Linux …

International Data Corporation (IDC), a US-based technology research firm, has predicted that China will beat US in terms of smartphone sales this year to be the biggest smartphone market, reports AFP. IDC has come to the conclusion as smartphone shipments to China in the second-half of 2011 surpassed the US shipments.
According to IDC figures,China will account for 20.7 percent or almost 137 million units of the global smartphone market in 2012 compared to US share of 20.6 percent. In 2011, …

Researchers at International Data Corp (IDC), a Massachusetts-based research company that tracks technology sales, believe Android tablet unit sales will surpass those of iPad by 2015, reports Bloomberg. According to IDC experts, it will happen with increasing demands for Amazon’s Kindle Fire.
IDC also increased its estimate for tablet shipments in 2012 to 106.1 million. Last year’s tablet sales of 68.7 million were higher than IDC’s expectations.
The statement released by IDC says tablet …

Playhaven, the real-time mobile game marketing platform launched in May, 2010, announced it has expanded to the Android platform and added other new features.
 
Playhaven, which boasts 30 million unique users, driving a whopping 350 million game sessions every month, has enjoyed a 150 percent increase in users and game sessions in the six months since it introduced a new platform that let developers create customizable HTML5 pop ups in order to engage the user in real time by activating …

A Chicago court has directed Google and Motorola Mobility to share with Apple all the details regarding purchase and development of Android operating system, reports Bloomberg.
The court-level patent lawsuit was filed by Apple against Motorola Mobility in 2010.
Both the companies are now bound to share information in connection with the 2005 acquisition of Android with Apple, including Google’s pending $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility.
The ruling came on Monday from US Circuit …

Apple iOS devices have been proclaimed to beat Android in running HTML5, a new report reveals.
The information comes from the inaugural Spaceport.io PerfMarks report which says that iOS runs HTML5 applications three times faster than Android.
Spaceport.io is a social games technology firm incubated by YouWeb. The firm hopes that the PerfMarks report will be “a bellwether for mobile browser and operating system creators who hope to better serve the HTML5 game development community.
The March …

The Samsung Galaxy S II Ice Cream Sandwich update will reportedly be released this coming March 15, Samsung Israel has reportedly let slip.
The much awaited update to the latest Android mobile operating system version was promised earlier by Samsung.
According to Android Central, the post which hinted that the Galaxy S II Ice Cream Sandwich update comes next week was on the Facebook page of Samsung Israel.
Quoting the post, the publication says that it translates roughly as:
“We promised we …