MobileNavigator 1.5.0 adds MyRoutes, 3D terrain

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NAVIGON has released MobileNavigator 1.5.0, described as a "significant" update to the company's tur...

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Warner sees stalled digital music after variable
iTunes

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 09 February 2010 11:25:00 AM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Warner Music Group during its fiscal results call today acknowledged that its digital music sales ha...

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iBlueNova : Video Demonstration of iPhone
Bluetooth Hack

post from iHackintosh on 09 February 2010 11:14:44 AM. © iHackintosh

MeDevil is almost done with iBlueNova, the application that unlocks the Bluetooth and lets users exchange any type of files between the iPhone and other phones. MeDevil released the 4th beta release to special group of beta testers. We don?t have any[...]

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Apple Grabs a Quarter of U.S. Smartphone Market

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Perhaps it has to do with Apple positioning itself as a mobile devices company, but the iPhone is on a serious upswing in the U.S. smartphone market, even while all of its competitors seem to be losing ground. Except for one, that is, and the rate at which that company is building up steam should give the Mac maker cause for some concern.

For the moment, though, Apple is doing much better than anyone in the space, really. The latest comScore report, which covers a three month period from September to December of 2009, shows Apple as having 25.3 percent of the total smartphone market share, up 1.2 points from 24.1 percent at the beginning of the period measured.

Research In Motion (RIM) came in first place overall once again, with 41.6 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers opting for a BlackBerry device. But that number represented a slide, ultimately, as RIM began the measurement period with 42.6 percent. Microsoft and Palm likewise slipped, with MS dropping from 19 to 18 percent, and Palm losing 2.2 points, down to 6.1 percent.

Google had the lowest market share of the bunch, with 5.2 percent of subscribers. But that number was up from only 2.5 percent in September, suggesting that it was probably helped along considerably with the introduction of the Motorola Droid. 2.7 points also represents the largest market share grab made by any smartphone manufacturer over the period of the report, so Google is indeed the company Apple needs to be most worried about.

Palm is probably the company everyone needs to be least worried about. The Pre and Pixi maker lost almost as much market share as Google gained, and was the only company on the list to post such a significant loss of ground. The Pre Plus and Pixi Plus could alter its fortunes, but I honestly can’t see customers who were disappointed with the originals going back for more at this point.

Going forward, Apple’s main concern is going to be with Google and how it fares now that it’s begun taking more control over its own smartphone future. The Nexus One drastically undersold the iPhone both in the first week and in the first month, so that’s got to be good news for Apple. That said, Google is doing something pretty much unprecented with regards to smartphone sales in the U.S., and it’s only selling the device in the U.S. as of yet. Apple had the advantage of selling its device through AT&T when it launched, which was an established sales and marketing channel for such devices already.

Apple’s growth over the period measured in the comScore report remains impressive, though, given that it had not introduced a new smartphone model since much, much earlier in the year. Google’s rise can be almost entirely attributed to the initially strong sales of the Motorola Droid, which was arguably the “it” device of the pre-Christmas season.

Related GigaOm Pro Research: As Windows Mobile Stumbles, Which Smartphone OS Will Seize the Lead?

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Whats New in Aperture 3

post from Daring Fireball on 09 February 2010 10:59:00 AM. © Daring Fireball

Faces, places, and brushes.

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ComScore Reports December 2009 U.S. Mobile
Subscriber Market Share

post from Daring Fireball on 09 February 2010 10:52:00 AM. © Daring Fireball

Palm, RIM, Microsoft losing market share; Apple and Google gaining. (RIM has the most to lose, of course.)

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Long Multiplication 1.2 - Educational Math App
for iPhone and iPod touch

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Independent developer Esa Helttula today released Long Multiplication 1.2, a new update for the[...]

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Seagate reveals 10,000RPM 600GB hard drive

Seagate said on Tuesday it is now shipping its Savvio 10K.4 enterprise-grade hard drives. The series...

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Apple hunts for iPad camera software engineer

A new Apple job listing strongly indicates that cameras are coming to future iPads. The company's C...

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Google finally offers over-the-phone support for
Nexus One

Google has quietly put up its first phone support option for the Nexus One. It's currently limited ...

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