Android now has 52.5% of the global smartphone market. No matter how you want to slice it, that’s amazing. It’s stealing share from every other smartphone operating system other than iOS, which is basically flat. See Also: I Spent A Week With Android, And Hated It GARTNER: Android Market Share Doubles, iOS Drops In...
Image: Florin Hatmanu See Also: GARTNER: Android Market Share Doubles, iOS Drops In Q3 Apple’s Latest Product Is Not A Game Changer CHART OF THE DAY: Android Is Totally Blowing Away The Competition Back when Apple started planning the first iPhone in 2005, Steve Jobs wanted to bypass wireless carriers completely and build a...
We’ve already articulated our stance on the PROTECT IP, SOPA, E-PARASITE, or whatever you want to call it bill, which creates a dangerous precedent of blacklisting domains and concentrates power on rights-holders, and remains vague enough to be easily abused. Eric Schmidt has already spoken out against it, saying that Google would not comply...
Bonobos, a web-only premium clothing brand for men, just announced the hiring of Michael Hart, Netflix’s former Director of Engineering for social systems. Hart says he wanted to “lead an earlier stage company” and was excited to apply what he learned at Netflix in terms of personalization and social networking. Hart received a BS...
ThinkUp began in 2009 as a labor of love by Gina Trapani, developer, tech writer and media mogul. She’s now a project director at Expert Labs, which leads ThinkUp’s development. Expert Labs is a nonprofit that helps the government harness the power of the social Web. Expert Labs’ director of engagement is Clay Johnson,...
Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Are you in the process of an IPv6 investigation, migration assessment and planning? Learn how to: Build an Enterprise IPv6 Test Lab in our ReadWriteEnterprise Brief. Global Village, a phrase we use so frequently these days, was...
Our friends at Lifehacker shared a heck of a tip today. Setting up Google’s Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts on your iOS device can be a multi-step process. This tip makes it all one step. Thank goodness for this, because we know that the official Google Gmail App for iOS was a flop. It’s a...
The Salvation Army is working with Square to test the potential of the firm’s mobile payment solutions to aid its donation collecting, according to a report from The New York Times. The move will allow people to make donations to the charity simply by swiping their credit card through the Square payment terminal at...
Quantenna, a startup building chips for sending massive data over Wi-Fi, has built the first gigabit chip for Wi-Fi networks and devices. Quantenna, which first got started delivering chips to boost in-home Wi-Fi to meet the demands of high-bandwidth applications, said Tuesday that its latest chip is available now for select customers for use...
Video ad network YuMe confirmed that it has raised $12 million in funding led by Samsung Ventures and Translink Capital. The funding, which is a continuation of the strategic investment that YuMe received from Intel last year, comes as the startup looks to expand from serving up ads in browser-based web video to serving...