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Apple’s iPhone ‘dead in the water’? Really?
May 13, 2011 – 8:00 am | No Comment

A second look at the claim that Apple’s four-year conquest of the mobile market is adrift Business Insider’s Henry Blodget may come to regret — if he doesn’t already — using the phrase “dead in the water” to describe the performance of Apple’s iPhone in a comScore market share survey that seemed to show, as [...]

Apple’s iPhone ‘dead in the water’? Really?
May 12, 2011 – 4:57 am | No Comment

Business Insider’s Henry Blodget may come to regret — if he doesn’t already — using the phrase ” dead in the water ” to describe the performance of Apple’s ( AAPL ) iPhone in a comScore market share survey that seemed to show, as Blodget’s headline put it, that “Android is destroying everyone.”

Android past iPhone in Japan share, Apple the top maker
May 10, 2011 – 2:57 pm | No Comment

Android successfully pushed past the iPhone for the top smartphone platform in Japan last fiscal year, according to MM Research Institute. Google shot up from just 250,000 phones and 11 percent of the market at the end of March 2010 to 4.91 million phones at the end of March this year, or 57.4 percent. Apple [...]

White IPhone Sparks Skirmish at Beijing Apple Store
May 9, 2011 – 6:00 am | No Comment

The long wait for Apple products in Beijing turned ugly over the weekend when a skirmish erupted outside one of the company’s stores, resulting in a broken glass door and injuries to customers and one employee. Apple’s iPad 2 had just gone on sale, but it was the white iPhone 4, released a week earlier, [...]

Apple Updates iPhone Software
May 6, 2011 – 2:00 pm | No Comment

Apple Inc. has reportedly updated its iPhone to limit the amount of data stored on the device related to recently visited locations.

Apple Updates iPhone OS to Reduce Amount of Location Data Stored on Device
May 4, 2011 – 12:56 pm | No Comment

Apple on Wednesday released a promised update to the iPhone operating system aimed to fix what the company says was a bug that allowed months worth of location data to be stored on the device and backed up to a computer.

How Would We Know If Android Beat Apple?
May 3, 2011 – 11:03 pm | No Comment

This year, Android phones in the aggregate beat Apple’s iPhone, to take the top spot for smartphone market share. Does that mean Android has finally won the fight against Apple?

Apple Promises Fix for Location-Gathering ‘Bug’ on iPhone
May 2, 2011 – 12:05 pm | No Comment

Your iPhone isn’t stalking you, Apple says, but some of its location-gathering techniques, vilified for the past week, are bugs that will be fixed soon.