Overall, Samsung and Apple now account for half of the smartphone unit share and 90 percent of the profit share. With iOS, you can link your phone to your iTunes account and download an app with one click.” App analytics company Flurry reports that video and photo apps are setting new growth records. But only 25 percent of the respondents had downloaded a retailer-branded app. Featured Mobile Advertising & Marketing Mobile Apps ABI Research Android Apple Chetan Sharma Flurry Google Wallet iTunes Peter FaragoSOURCE: [link]. ” In the U.S., MORE >>

This week the company revealed its plans to launch a new mobile app to bring Facebook to the most popular and mainstream mobile phones around the world.  In fact, the company has cleverly positioned the app as a “better Facebook experience for our most popular features , including an easier-to-navigate home screen, contact synchronization, and fast scrolling of photos and friend updates.&#. By now we all know about Steve Jobs’ decision to take a sabbatical, a move that comes at the same time we learn that Apple has chalked up record revenue and net quarterly profit. MORE >>

It's something of the nature where it's assumed Google knows best for me, even if the user is left wondering if its their own best interests that are being served, or that of the company. You can download Zip files from e-mail attachments, but not unpack them. Macintosh Chrome Google Apple ChromeOSmust have groused about it enough that my wife finally took to her blog to lodge complaint with Google (somewhat tongue in cheek). The major hypothesis of the ChromeOS plan is that the future is the Web. Web sites, Web services and Web applications. Black all the way around. MORE >>

When Apple officially threw its hat into the ‘content cloud’ services ring with their iCloud announcement last month, it capped a trifecta of launches from the three leading over-the-top (OTT) players: Apple iCloud, Google Music and Amazon CloudDrive. Does But the winner’s circle will only include the companies that understand and address what users really want in a digital content service. Apple ‘gets it’ and is the closest to achieving this to date. ADVANTAGE: Apple. And Apple only supports Twitter because the companies are partners. MORE >>

Mobile voice services have finally crossed the chasm thanks to the rise (and rise) Apple Siri — the smart, voice-enabled mobile assistant that connects with our personal data and the wider Internet to manage our daily lives. What is the real impact of Apple on the industry? Who are the niche companies with good ideas and huge potential? By way of background, Bill is the founder of TMA Associates, an independent consultancy providing insights and supporting companies that want to incorporate speech technologies into their offer, or improve their own enterprise efficiency. MORE >>