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• Samsung dominates nascent smartwatch market, way ahead of Pebble

  Samsung has taken a clear and dominant lead in the smartwatch market, but it's still early days and big changes could be on the horizon.

• Apple trumpets iPad cannibalization

  Apple yesterday made its strongest statement yet that soaring iPad sales are affecting the laptop market, saying that the problem should concern its rivals.

• Verizon iPhone impact on Android may be a wash

  Some analysts said Tuesday the iPhone 4G on Verizon Wireless will cannibalize Google Android smartphone sales across various carriers including AT&T early on, while others disagreed.

• BlackBerry OS knocks Apple iOS down a notch

  Apple's iPhone and Google's Android might seem to have all the momentum these days, but RIM's BlackBerry OS is the surprise winner in StatCounter's latest U.S. mobile OS Internet usage numbers.

• 8 useful Google Android resources

  If you’ve found yourself playing catch-up on Google Android, here’s a selection of resources from Network World and our sister publications to get you up to speed quickly.

• Android piles on its U.S. smartphone market share led

  Popularity of the Google Android mobile operating system is showing no signs of slowing down, with the OS being found in 44 per cent of smartphones purchased during Q3.

• Android phones outsell iPhone 2-to-1, says research firm

  Android-powered smartphones outsold iPhones in the U.S. by almost 2-to-1 in the third quarter, a research firm said today.

• iPad trends may mean sleepless nights for PC makers

  Although sales of Apple's iPad haven't panicked PC makers yet, trends by tablet owners may give laptop manufacturers some sleepless nights next year, a market research analyst said today.

• Analysts dispute talk of iPad's impact on PC sales

  The death of the PC industry at the hands of Apple's iPad has been greatly exaggerated, analysts said today.

• Blackberry loses more ground to Apple and Android

  In a continuing trend, more businesses are shifting loyalties from Blackberry to iPhones and Android devices as the relative newcomers make inroads into the corporate world. Three-quarters of the 200 businesses surveyed in the United States and the U.K in the study reported that their employees are choosing other than Blackberry, Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd. reported to Bloomberg. The number was 83 percent for U.S. companies.

• Xbox 360 redesign pays off

  Microsoft's revision of the Xbox 360 brought results in July when the console topped the U.S. video game sales ranking for the first time in three years, according to figures from NPD Group.

• Apple shifts to newest Intel CPUs in iMac refresh

  Apple today refreshed its iMac line for the first time since October 2009 by adopting Intel's Core i3, i5 and i7 processors across the board and abandoning NVidia's integrated graphics chipset for ATI-branded graphics processors.

• Snow Leopard sales roar out the gate

  First two weeks' retail sales double Leopard's, four times better than Tiger's, says NPD

• Mac sales plummet by almost 17%, NPD reports

  Apple Inc.'s retail sales, which fell by more than 5% in January, plummeted nearly 17% in February compared with the same month in 2008 as the company's high prices continued to take a toll, research company The NPD Group Inc. said Tuesday.