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Apple Passes Samsung to Take Smartphone Market Lead

by Tom Allen

Worldwide smartphone sales reached 367.5 million units in Q4’14, rising almost 30% YoY. Gartner’s data shows that Apple displaced Samsung as the market leader – a spot that the Korean company has held since …

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Android 2014 Share Eclipses Total 2014 Smartphone Market

by Tom Allen

Android and iOS maintained their dominance of the worldwide smartphone market in Q4’14, says IDC, and in fact managed to improve their market share by double digits. These two operating systems represented 96.3% of …

Tags:Android| BlackBerry| IDC| iOS (Apple)| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 09| Windows| Worldwide

Canonical Promises Break from the Norm With Ubuntu

by Tom Allen

Canonical has revealed the first Ubuntu smartphone, created with Spain’s BQ. Designed to challenge smartphones using existing operating systems such as iOS and Android, the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition ‘puts content at the heart …

Tags:Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 07

Microsoft Jumps to Windows 10

by Norbert Hildebrand

Microsoft is still “The Standard” for PC operating systems worldwide, even with all the success of Apple’s OSX and Unix platforms in recent years. Microsoft claims that about 1.5 billion people are using Microsoft …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Vol 22 - Issue 05| Windows

Jolla’s Sailfish Tablet Funded in Hours

by Raverstead

Jolla, a spin-off from Nokia that pushes a mobile OS called Sailfish, has successfully crowdfunded a tablet. Actually, the company smashed its $380,000 target on Indiegogo. At the time of writing the campaign still …

Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Vol 21 - Issue 46

China Works to Replace Windows, OSX and Android

by Super User

The People’s Post and Telecommunications News, of China, says that an OS to rival those from Microsoft, Google and Apple could be deployed by October. The paper quoted the head of an official OS …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 34| Volume 21

Huawei Has Android Concerns

by Super User

Richard Yu, the head of Huawei’s consumer business group, is concerned about the lack of OS choice for mobile device makers. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Yu said, “We feel Tizen …

Tags:Huawei| Large Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Vol 21 - Issue 34| Volume 21

Google Preparing for Android One?

by Super User

A launch of Google’s Android One initiative, which aims to unify the fragmented OS in entry-level smartphones, may be approaching. Invitations have been sent to an event in India on 15th September. Google has …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 36