Samsung's decision to skip unveiling the Galaxy S III at this week's just-ended Mobile World Congress may not have been a sign of a delay but a competitive move to keep its final plans a secret. Leaks from unnamed Samsung officials to ZDNet had the company still on track to ship the third-generation phone in April, a year on from the launch of the Galaxy S II. It may have timed it for as late as the summer, but was taking advantage of a lack of immediate releases from Chinese firms, as well as a presumed half-year wait from April to the next iPhone, to "move ahead o... Read more...
Mail to get new features in Mountain Lion
Apple will be making a few tweaks to Mail, its default e-mail program, in this summer's Mountain Lion release. One big change will be to allow users to designate important people as "VIPs" and be able to make rules letting Mail notify users only when mail from a VIP arrives. Read more...
Hands on with Messages Beta for Apple OS X Lion (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Apple recently announced the summer launch of Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and is giving users a sneak peek at what’s coming with the Messages Beta desktop app, which can now be downloaded to any Mac running Lion. That free download will disappear when Mountain Lion launches in late summer, and users who want it will have to upgrade. The basic idea of Messages is to take iOS 5′s iMessage and transplant it to the desktop while combining it with all the usual features of iChat. Read more...
iPhone cedes share in China to ZTE as Samsung ousts Nokia
Region-specific Gartner data has shown that Apple was losing Chinese smartphone market share in the last few months before the local release of the iPhone 4S. Its portion dropped from 10.4 percent in the summer to 7.5 percent in the fall Read more...
Mountain Lion may drop support for older Intel Macs
Appleís surprise announcement that its next update to OS X dubbed Mountain Lion will come as soon as this summer, has also yielded an additional surprise. As with the shift from Leopard to Snow Leopard, Apple will cut off users of older Intel Macs from its next-generation OS -- for Leopard, IBM PowerPC-based Macs missed out Read more...
Facebook photo sharing app now under new management
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...