IDC reported this week that growth in the massive Chinese smartphone market slowed late last year for the first time since early 2011. We’re likely to see sales rebound in 2014,… Read more »
Three proposed acquisitions led the news in the third quarter of 2013. Meanwhile, Apple Inc. released two new iPhones and, just as importantly, gave the iOS 7 a major makeover. Read more »
Apple’s iPad has essentially become the top end of the tablet market, where smaller, more affordable slates are gaining in popularity. But as growth in the overall market begins to slow,… Read more »
But we also saw some new developments in recent months. Android tablets began to steal market share from Apple’s iOS, thanks largely to the success of Amazon’s Kindle Fire. And the… Read more »
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Millennial Media is planning to public early next year, citing an unnamed source. Millennial doesn’t grab as many headlines as some others in the… Read more »
Appcelerator and IDC released a survey this morning of mobile application developers, and the report is a must-read for anyone in the space. All Things D notes that developers are shifting… Read more »
Location-based marketing still suffers from user-privacy issues, user awareness and a lack of extensive local advertising networks. But the combination of GPS-enabled location pinpointing and the embrace of social networks has… Read more »
A few pieces focusing on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 illlustrate today just how wide-open the smartphone market is: IDC has revised its projections to claim that Windows Phone will be the… Read more »
New figures from IDC today highlight some fascinating (if not entirely surprising) trends in the worldwide smartphone market: Apple moved into second place in global smartphone shipments during the first quarter of… Read more »
New data from IDC indicates the worldwide handset market grew by 19.8 percent in the first quarter of 2011, with much of the growth coming from smartphone sales in emerging markets… Read more »