Alibaba Reboots Its Cloud-based Mobile OS Strategy – AlizilaCompany outlines new plans seven months after Google blocked a smartphone featuring Alibaba's OS software in China. Apple records and keeps users' Siri queries for up to 2 years – Los...
Mobile App (Native): pages (screens), events, goals, ID-specific information, app versions, usage, crashes, devices and operating systems (OS) used, etc. Did they crash (which is usually found in the Play Store or Apple Store), etc?
Though the Chrome OS project has yet to gain much market traction, Google has persuaded some major vendors to dip their toes into the market by offering models which support the platform as an entry-level notebook.
Research firm IDC said that the Google mobile OS is the first to surpass 100 million quarterly shipments in a single quarter. Many of its competitors, with weaker tie-ins to the mobile OS, do not," explained IDC senior research analyst Kevin Restivo.
Unlike other standalone solutions, its advantages lie in its central position at the OS level, and its SDK for developers to build Passbook functionality into their apps. Last month, we covered the now well-known "Mapgate" snafu in Apple's iOS 6.
Is it continuing to create new features and optimize for new OS releases? Unlike Google, Apple has total access to everything that happens within the confines of an application, which means there’s a boatload of data to determine user appreciation.
While Microsoft operates online, with its Bing search engine for instance, it still relies on its PC-based Windows operating system (OS) and Office software. Microsoft is betting on its next version of its mobile and touchscreen friendly OS...
Google has acquired iOS and OS X email client Sparrow. Lee Bell wrote Google acquires IOS and OS X email client Sparrow Sparrow works on iPhone and iPad devices and Mac computers, using simplified interfaces of Twitter clients such as Tweetie or...
Google unveiled the latest version of its Android operating system (OS), known as Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Google Nexus Q Arrives to Take on Apple TV Google surprised everyone with the launch of the Nexus Q, a media streamer that aims to take on the...
This month, Baidu has stepped up its mobile capabilities to launch a new smartphone Changhong H5018, which comes with Baidu Cloud OS based on Android and manufactured by Foxconn (same factory that produces Apple iPhones).
Select Mobile OS – either Android or iOS (Apple) Mobile advertising continues to grow. If you are a search marketer, you can’t read a blog or check your Twitter feed without seeing another article about the growth of mobile advertising.
Shortly after that report surfaced, TechCrunch posted what it said was a screenshot from an early build of the OS X Google Drive application: Drive is likely to be offered as an Android application, as well as versions for OS X and Windows, and...
Again adhering to the alphabetical order scheme, when asked why Google names its OS upgrades after desserts, Google spokesman, Randall Sarafa says, “It's kind of like an internal team thing, and we prefer to be a little bit -- how should I say...
Google’s Director of Android OS User Experience Matias Duarte explained how their approach to AI differs and offered a few hints as to how a Google product may function In a Slashgear interview late last year:
We originally designed the Android photos file system similar to those of other computing platforms like Windows and Mac OS,” a Google spokesman told the NYTimes via e-mail. Citing a similar report highlighting the same problem with Apple's iOS...
Google found themselves in the center of another PR quagmire this week, when the WSJ reported they’d been caught circumventing user settings in both the OS X and iOS versions of the Safari browser. In March 2010, Apple was working on a Safari fix.
Google platforms were reportedly able to log user activity on both the OS X and iOS versions of the browser. Google is speaking out in the wake of a report that the company's search engine bypasses privacy protections in Apple's Safari browser.
It’s cheaper for developers to build and maintain a mobile website than an app; and you're available to any phone with a mobile browser, rather than the fragmented OS scene. Apple wants an app-centric world because it gets 30 percent of app sales.
However, Google has the reach, social capabilities, and hardware – via Motorola and the Android OS – to be the first true iTunes competitor. Google Taking on Apple in Music Apple has had few real competitors in the music industry, although Amazon...
We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook.