According to a recent study from research firm Nielsen, Android-powered smartphone users are not more data hungry than their counterparts using different mobile operating systems.
The study conducted in just this April also revealed that Android has widened its lead in U.S. market share over Apple’s iOS, Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry OS, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7, HP’s WebOS, previously Nokia’s Symbian, and Palm OS.
The study reveals the following market …

No, iOS applications developers are not off the hook from patent infringement charges because of Apple’s license, patent holdings firm Lodsys says.

In a post on its website titled “Apple’s License Claim Disputed”, Lodsys says that “Apple is not ‘undisputedly licensed’ with rights that extend to 3rd party Developers.”
Recently, Lodsys sent warnings to iOS app developers saying that they needed to buy licenses for the ‘In App Purchase’ features of their applications.
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Apple has finally spoken about claims of a Texas-based company saying that developers of iOS applications need to license one of the technologies covered by a patent it owns.

Reports say that Apple has sent notices to Lodsys and the developers which were hit by demands from Lodsys saying that the license Apple bought for a patent covering in-app purchases also covered developers of iOS applications.
According to reports, developers got notices from Bruce Sewell, senior vice president and …

If you’re an iPhone app developer, Microsoft wants you. The software giant will soon be releasing a tool which will help developers more easily migrate their apps to Windows Phone.
The software called iPhone-Windows Phone API Mapping Tool is designed to make building apps on Windows Phone easier especially for developers who have apps for the iPhone.
The application program interface (API) helps developers by charting which iOS APIs an iPhone app calls on. The tool then looks at the Windows …

It seems that President Barack Obama is getting more and more tech savvy and wants to make full use of technology to keep in touch with the people while keeping them informed everything about their president and events related to White House.
News is coming that the White House administration has released an official app for mobile platform Android. It was reported on the blog of White House Website.
The menu has four sections: “News”, “blog”, “Video” and …

You would think that if a giant software company releases an innovative piece of software, they’d first release it to users in their camp. But lo and behold, the Photosynth app for the iPhone was released today.
Microsoft’s apparent forsaking of users of its Windows Phone platform comes as the Redmond, Washington-based software powerhouse released the application for users of its rival’s hot-selling smartphone.
Photosynth enables users to take 360-degree panorama pictures when a single …

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A recent study done by a Canadian mobile website optimization firm reveals that Android loads websites faster than the iPhone by 52 percent.
“We found that Android’s browser is faster. Not just a little faster, but a whopping 52% faster,” Blaze.io in the study named “iPhone vs. Android – 45,000 Tests Prove Whose Browser is Faster.”
“Android’s Chrome beat iPhone’s Safari by loading 84% of the websites faster, meaning Safari won the race …

Apple is seemingly taking some inspiration from the Android mobile operating system as a report from 9to5 Mac says that the Cupertino-based company is testing an gesture lock screen similar to the system used on the Android OS.
According to the report, the gesture-based lock screen being tested on iOS devices is similar to the “dots” system used on the Google-developed platform.
The Android lock screen lets users create a pattern of succeeding dots on the lock screen which replaces the …

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Google’s Android mobile operating system boosted its lead over Apple’s iOS, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and Palm in smartphone platform market share in the United States for the fourth quarter of 2010, data from research firm comScore show.
Meanwhile, Research in Motion continues to hold on to it lead but it also posted a decrease in share for the said quarter.
According to comScore, the Android platform gained 7.3 percent in market share for the three …

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Tablets powered by the Google-developed Android mobile operating system increased its market share to 22 percent for shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010, data from Strategy Analytics reveal.
However, Apple Inc.’s iOS-powered iPad still accounts for a massive 75 percent share of all shipments of tablets for the period, the research firm said.
On the other hand, the data show a sharp decrease of market share for Apple’s market defining device. For the …