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 Horace Dediu at Asymco has run the numbers and it’s not looking good. Samsung and Apple now control an estimated 99% of vendor profits with HTC scraping in with 1%. BlackBerry and Nokia barely register and, in fact, form a loss. . . . → Read More: Why Can’t BlackBerry Muddle Through? They’re Not The 99%  When Apple launched iPhoto for iPhone, it quickly became clear that there was something odd going on with the maps in the application. Even though Apple never talked about this publicly, the data Apple used to render these new maps was clearly not from Google anymore. Instead, most experts agreed , Apple was using a number of different sources to create its new map tiles without giving proper credit to groups like OpenStreetMap , the Wikipedia-like crowdsourced mapping organization . . . → Read More: Apple Finally Gives Proper Credit To OpenStreetMap In iPhoto For iOS  The HTC Titan II has already gone through the Fly or Die ringer , but the real determining factor for these phones is the level of competition surrounding them. . . . → Read More: HTC Titan II Review: Head-To-Head With The Lumia 900 And One X  Nokia may be busy suing the likes of RIM, HTC, and Viewsonic over the infringement of a long list of wireless patents , but the Finnish company should watch their backs — now they’re the target of a class-action lawsuit from a shareholder because their plan to embrace to Windows Phone hasn’t yielded the right results. . . . → Read More: Nokia Weighs In On Investors’ Class-Action Lawsuit: It Has “No Merit”  KinderTown , the startup behind the educational iOS app store for parents (and honestly, a personal fav) is expanding its focus today. According to feedback from its users, the number one complaint was that KinderTown wasn’t available for older children . . . → Read More: KinderTown’s Educational App Store For Parents Doubles Users, Adds Apps For Bigger Kids  A post on CNN Money found that during a quick assessment of 10 Verizon stores and reps in New York – arguably a small sample size – the representatives would pitch Verizon’s Android’s 4G phones over the “old fashioned” 3G iPhone. Said one rep: “The iPhone is a great phone, but it’s on 3G . . . → Read More: Pusher Man: Verizon Reps Will Push Android Over iPhone? Not So Fast  Twilio , the upstart software maker of voice and other telephony APIs used by developers in web and mobile apps, is marking another chapter in its European expansion today: the company’s voice API — which lets users make and receive calls through those apps — is now available in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden, bringing the total number of countries supported on this side of the pond up to 10, in addition to the U.S. and Canada . . . → Read More: Twilio Expands Again In Europe, Adds VoIP API In Belgium, Finland, Netherlands, and Sweden  Google has always been pretty cagey about the financials behind its Android mobile OS — and data that has emerged over the last week could give us an indication why: it’s been losing money from Day One. In the lawsuit between Oracle and Google — in which Oracle claims Google, in its Android platform, infringes on copyrights and patents related to Java — a judge and jury are trying to work out what kind of damages might be awarded to Oracle. . . . → Read More: Android Lost Money Every Quarter In 2010, Made $97.7M In Q1  With ‘social discovery’ all the rage with apps like Highlight, Banjo and Glancee attracting attention during this year’s SXSW it’s easy to forget there are players out there which have been doing this a tad longer. Badoo de-cloaked as a social network in London a few years ago with ‘discovery’ very much at it’s core, but with a twist – it encouraged people to promote themselves, sometimes with payment. Where Facebook concentrated on linking up with existing friends and friends of friends, Badoo was literally oriented towards you meeting new people all the time, and for others to push themselves out there. . . . → Read More: Badabing Badaboom – Badoo Hits 150 Million Users, Boosted By Mobile  During the conference call this afternoon for their first quarter earnings , LinkedIn executives boasted about the impressive mobile growth they’re seeing. In the last week of March, the company says mobile accounted for 22 percent of unique visitors, up 8 percent from the same period last year. And although he wouldn’t share any numbers, CEO Jeff Weiner said adoption of the recently launched iPad app has exceeded the company’s “aggressive” expectations. . . . → Read More: LinkedIn’s Mobile Future: 22 Percent Of Visitors Are Mobile, In-Stream Ads Coming? |
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