The leaked images of a Facebook app last summer will not result in a photo-sharing app after all, Business Insider has learned. The photos were simply meant to showcase of what such an app could look like and in fact little development work was done on the app. Also, the source revealed that Facebook is still working on improving the mobile photo-sharing experience, but the team assigned to it is different from the one in the summer.... Read more...
Seagate says drive shortages to last through 2012
Storage drive maker Seagate has updated its previous outlook on hard drive shortages due to the floods in Thailand. During its latest results call, it said shipments will be affected well into 2012, and the total shortage is to reach about 150 million units. Another storage drive maker, Western Digital, has stated production volumes won't be resumed until the summer.... Read more...
ABI: Android has lost market share for first time
Apple's record iPhone sales have led to Android shrinking for the first time in its over three-year history, ABI Research estimated Friday. Operating on the belief that next-closest Samsung shipped 33 million smartphones, it had Android's collective share drop from 52.5 percent in the summer to 47 percent this fall. Read more...
Good: iPhone 4S spiked enterprise’s iOS use, Android flat
Good Technology broke down its latest enterprise stats Wednesday to show that the iPhone 4S had a tangible impact on share at work. The new Apple phone made smartphone activations through the enterprise platform "skyrocket," making up for any pent-up demand from the summer with a record in the fall. iOS as a whole made up 70 percent of the newly switched-on activations, keeping its summer share even in the face of theoretically tougher competition... Read more...
Clearwire flips to profit, adds customers as LTE underway
Clearwire on Tuesday showed a significant recovery from near death with early estimates of its results. Read more...
London to get more spectrum, Tube Wi-Fi for Olympics
Two organizations are working to brace London's mobile data networks for the expected impact of the summer Olympics this year. Regulator Ofcom has planned to increase the amount of available wireless spectrum for 3G in the city. Among the efforts, it plans to borrow airwave access from government bodies like the Ministry of Defence, to exploit unlicensed bands, and to use frequencies going up for auction but which won't be used until 2013.... Read more...
iPad 3 display shipments may top 7m by launch, 10m after
Shipments of the rumored 2048x1536 display behind the upcoming next-generation iPad may quickly overtake, but not completely replace, the iPad 2 based on purported new leaks. Having shipped just one million in the fall in its early ramp-up, Apple was claimed by Digitimes to be scaling up to as much as eight million in the first three months of 2012. By the summer, Apple would be up to 10 million for the third-generation model.... Read more...
Mac-friendly dating service gains iPhone app
A unique online dating site intended for men and women who already have one thing in common -- a love of Apple products -- has expanded to provide its own iOS app for its users. Cleverly called Cupidtino, the site (which launched over the summer) allows Mac and other Apple users to browse profiles of other users and send messages, pictures and other info to each other. The company, which is not affiliated with Apple, allows users to start browsing profiles without charge immediately.... Read more...
Mac-friendly dating service gains iPhone app
A unique online dating site intended for men and women who already have one thing in common -- a love of Apple products -- has expanded to provide its own iOS app for its users. Cleverly called Cupidtino, the site (which launched over the summer) allows Mac and other Apple users to browse profiles of other users and send messages, pictures and other info to each other. The company, which is not affiliated with Apple, allows users to start browsing profiles without charge immediately... Read more...
Motorola warns fall sales below expectations, blames Apple
Motorola sent out a warning late Friday that its fall performance wouldn't meet. Read more...
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