We're seeing the rise of modern design techniques such as flat design (two dimensional design for two dimensional screens) with Apple design looking to replace all of the software on your iPhone and Mac with clean edges and flat surfaces.
Apple records and keeps users' Siri queries for up to 2 years – Los Angeles TimesData is anonymized after six months, but Apple keeps the data for product testing and improvement purposes for another 18 months.
Conversion oftentimes happens if a user currently has a free product and they're upgrading to a paid product – that conversion happens inside the Apple Store or inside Google Play. Almost all tracking is done with anonymous device fingerprint...
Google will pay Apple $1 billion in 2014 to be the default Internet search provider on iOS devices, including the iPhone and iPad, according Scott Devitt, an analyst at Morgan Stanley. Thirty-one percent of Google's traffic acquisition costs will...
Android and Apple). For example, a software vendor with a single office can create a list of resellers or service partners and create local pages that are optimized for search, API’d, and have Google+ Local pages.
Facebook's Pages Manager app had been available on Apple's iOS for some time, allowing Page administrators to edit their pages. Now the firm has ported the software to the Android operating system, however the app is only available in selected...
This is similar to Apple’s rules for the App Store in charging to enroll before submitting apps, as well as Google Play where it states, "We charge this fee to encourage higher quality products on Google Play (e.g.less spammy products).
This has led to numerous high-profile patent cases between Apple and manufacturers using Android, notably Samsung, on issues of design and software. The ongoing battle between Apple and Google for supremacy in the mobile market is the "defining...
Apple remains the world's most valuable company at $618.1 billion. Apple passed Microsoft in 2010 due to mounting sales of its iPhones and iPads, helping the consumer information technology industry become less dependent on desktop and laptop PCs.
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) When setting up these Mobile App Extensions, it's important to properly segment your campaigns by device and software. Google AdWords is helping to continue driving this trend by offering new...
The new Google Play branding gives focus much like Apple's iTunes Store and Amazon, making it more like a storefront for people that want all their media in the same place. I'm a huge Apple fan and download everything through my iPhone 4s and...
Apple recently cut the minimum price it charges advertisers to run iAd mobile campaigns in the hopes of better competing with Google. While Android is the leading smartphone operating system, it trails far behind Apple, which sold more than 11...
The Apple Shopper: Apple’s iPhone and iPad ranked one and two for mobile device retail traffic (5.2 percent and 4.3 percent respectively). Marin Software also reports that the number of paid search clicks from mobile and tablets doubled over Q3, to...
The Android Market, Apple iTunes, and CNET were among the earliest sites to began using rich application snippets, which were announced in September. If we inspect the new pages about these software snippets at Google's Webmaster Help we find that...
Apple took the ball right to the hoop, publishing podcast directories, integrating podcasts with iTunes, and even building podcasting features into its QuickTime and Garage Band software. The dot-com crash shook out many of the earliest players...
This year, tech companies dominated the top of the Best Global Brands report Top 10, with IBM, Microsoft, Google, GE, Intel, Apple and Hewlett-Packard all making the cut. Other tech companies to rank high in the Global Top 50 Business index...
CEO Rich Skrenta noted that the products Apple has brought to market have done far more damage to Microsoft than the Department of Justice lawsuit they faced in the 1990s. Google has used the riches from its dominance in search and search...
Apple holds its consistency by owning both the hardware and software elements. It's not clear if some of this may be due to Apple's success on tablets. Jumptap releases a regular statistical analysis of what's going on in mobile.
Apple iPad Pits Consumer Privacy Against Advertising Measurability (Marin Software White Paper) There is a lot of speculation regarding Apple's market share in tablets, with Steve Jobs claiming the number is currently as high as 90 percent.
