If the latest survey from Nielsen holds water, you can expect to see a lot of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/061510-smartphone-history.html">smartphones</a>, tablets and other <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/112111-cool-yule-tools.html">popular devices under the Christmas tree</a> this year.
More US smartphone users turned to Android in the third quarter, accounting for nearly 44.8 per cent of some 87 million users, according to ComScore.
Android was the only smartphone operating system to gain U.S. market share in the third quarter, growing more than 10%, Nielsen said Thursday.
Right now the mobile operating system wars have only two main combatants: <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a>'s iOS and Google's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a>.
Steve Jobs, the only bio ever authorized by the iconic CEO, led bestseller lists on its release. (Image: Simon & Schuster.) The biography of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs debuted today at the top of both Amazon's and Barnes & Nobles' bestseller lists.
Google's Android mobile operating system is still steadily expanding its share of the U.S. smartphone market, as industry watcher Nielsen reports that 43% of American smartphone subscribers use Android-based devices.
Apple's iPhone lost share among U.S. consumers who bought a mobile phone in the last three months, while the share for devices running Google's Android climbed, Nielsen said Monday.
Google's Android OS continues to gain on both Apple iOS and Research In Motion's BlackBerry platform in the growing US smartphone market, but often stodgy RIM is on the wish lists of some cutting-edge buyers, according to the Nielsen research company.
The question of whether Android users really value mobile applications has been answered in the affirmative, according to a new Nielsen report.
A commanding 38 per cent share of all smartphone users in the US used Android-based devices in the three months ending in May, according to ComScore.
I love my hometown of San Francisco. Great weather, great views, great food. But terrible radio. So when I'm driving, I've developed the habit of tuning into Pandora on an iPhone that I link to my car radio. Like a lot of other AT&T customers, I've been moved from my unlimited data plan to measured service. Yes, that was my choice, but what has the metered plan done to my music habit? And does that mean I made a mistake?
Users of Apple's iPad and other tablets prefer to spend more time fiddling with their devices in bed than in the bathroom.
A new survey indicates more traditional business marketing money is being spent on social media activities, including using the public services to build customer relationships, not just to drum up publicity.
New survey results from Nielsen show that users are ditching their laptops, abandoning their ereaders, and leaving their MP3 players behind. For a large, and growing segment of the population, the tablet is the new primary computing and entertainment device.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have been onto something when he said that "PCs are going to be like trucks," as some tablet owners are reportedly letting their PCs gather dust.