Android leaps Microsoft in Smartphone sales

Search engine giant Google has announced that the company has activated 200 million Android devices worldwide. The announcement was made during the launch of Google's Google Music service, which lets users store music online and...

The world wide mobile devices market continued to grow in the second quarter, with Google Android maintaining its lead in the smartphone market.According to a report released by market research firm Gartner, mobile devices ...

Google plans to end support for ageing web browsers on its Google Apps platform. In a blog post Google explained that certain functionalities present on its Google Apps platform require modern web browsers to function properly,...

The coming summer is expected to witness the rise of next-generation smartphones powered by the Android mobile OS.It was recently disclosed by a Gartner report that Android has surfaced as the fastest growing smartphone...

The worldwide sales of Smartphones, and other mobile communication devices continues to grow at an overwhelming speed even in the first quarter of 2011.The report published by the research firm Gartner Inc. claimed that...

Google Android has become the most sought after mobile advertising platform for US advertisers, a study has found.According to the MobileMix 2011 report released by mobile advertising firm Millennial Media, Android receives...

Google's Android mobile operating system is expected to dominate around half of the global smartphone market in 2012, a new report has claimed. Smartphone market research conducted by research outfit Gartner revealed that the...

The success of Google's Android platform has been impressive thus far - but market watcher Gartner believes that it's on form to become the dominant smartphone operating system, predicting that it will grow to almost half the...

Security software maker Symantec has discovered a new Android trojan that is mimicking the recently released Android Market security update released by Google. The trojan, which is being distributed via third party Android app...

Google has announced that it is activating more than 300,000 Android devices every day.In a Twitter post that might have rattled many rivals, head of Android Andy Rubin said: “There are over 300,000 Android phones activated...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak believes that Google’s mobile operating system will outstrip demand for Apple’s own iOS. Wozniak, speaking to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, said that Android phones were better as they...

Industry experts have slammed Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile phone OS, claiming that they are confident that the platform will be a failure. Market experts and analysts at research firm Gartner have stated...

Sony Ericsson has said it has no future of developing handsets based on the Symbian operating system championed by Finnish rival Nokia.In a statement to Bloomberg Businessweek, Sony Ericsson spokesperson Aldo Liguori confirmed...

A new study has found that Android-based devices continue to rise at the expense of Research in Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry devices as the preferred smartphones for enterprise users.According to a survey conducted by ChangeWave...

A report suggests that Google's Android mobile operating system will surpass rivals to become number two in the global smartphone market.In a forecast, market research firm Gartner has predicted that Google's Android operating...