Web statistics company Quantcast published the data , which tracked mobile web consumption in the month of August, on Friday. Android saw a 2% gain in mobile web market share while all other platforms lost share.
In an earlier post, Quantcast noted that it "does not include Apple's iPad in mobile web consumption analysis," although it did not specifically state whether the iPad's figures are excluded from the most recent data set. According to Net Applications, which includes the iPad in its figures, iOS is now the third most popular Web browsing platform.
Computerworld - Apple today introduced a dramatically smaller and less expensive Apple TV that streams rented movies and TV programs to high-definition television sets, making good on rumors that the company would push what CEO Steve Jobs has long called a "hobby" part of the business.
Jobs also laid out a completely revamped iPod music player lineup, talked up a pair of upgrades to its iOS mobile operating system and touted changes to the company's iTunes music software and store that add some social-networking-like features.
Redesigned Apple TV includes built-in HDMI, Wi-Fi and Ethernet and is one-fourth the size of earlier models.
Are Dell’s shareholders on Xanax? The computer maker has finally bowed out of its mad bidding war for 3Par, the data storage company. Yet its investors displayed neither much concern about overpaying nor relief about the deal’s being dropped. After a decade of scandals, missed opportunities and dismal performance, they may have stopped caring.
There was reason to worry. Dell looked desperate for 3Par. It raised its offer multiple times to compete with Hewlett-Packard . H.P.’s $2.1 billion winning bid was more than three times 3Par’s undisturbed market capitalization and values the company at almost 10 times estimated sales. Based on a typical tech premium of around 40 percent, H.P. appears to have overpaid by more than $1 billion.
Dell’s investors should be happy to have lost. 3Par’s final price tag would have been about 4 percent of Dell’s market capitalization. Moreover, Dell received a $72 million breakup fee for its troubles. Yet its shares rose only about 2 percent after Dell withdrew from the 3Par action on Thursday. The tranquilized market reaction reflected a seeming lack of ability to feel much anger or sadness during the battle. Dell’s shares fell little after its initial bid or the subsequent offers.
During Wednesday's Apple press conference, CEO Steve Jobs took a not-too-subtle shot at Google and its Android platform. Google responded.
"`"> "> Most Apple press conferences start off with some statistics and state-of-the-company type stuff. Wednesday was no different, and Jobs noted that Apple is activating 230,000 iOS-based devices per day. He made sure to specify that that's 230,000 new devices being activated each day. That figure includes iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches.
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt recently let fly that the company is activating 200,000 new Android handsets per day. That number has swelled significantly since January of this year, when Google bragged of activating 60,000 Android handsets per day.
Apple's ( AAPL ) decade-long run of iPod-, iPhone-, and iPad-fueled prosperity has featured only one notable dud. Introduced in 2006, Apple TV is a set-top box used to play movies and other digital fare on a TV via iTunes on a Mac or PC. Apple has sold fewer than 3Â million of them, estimates Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu. The company sold that many iPads in three months.
And yet, at a Sept. 1 event in San Francisco, Steve Jobs announced that Apple is bringing out a less-than-revolutionary upgrade. The new Apple TV looks different—it's black, not white, and at 3.9 inches square, is 75 percent smaller than the old one—and you now rent rather than buy movies and TV shows. (The price has also fallen, from $229 to $99.) Otherwise, its function is mostly unchanged. "You're still looking at a product for the Apple fanatics," says technology marketing consultant David Clarke of BGT Partners.
Still, the timing for such an evolution isn't upon us, Jobs says. Apple's biggest obstacle may be that it doesn't have the rights to sell shows the way it wants. Many studios, nervous about angering the cable companies that pay billions for their content, refused Apple's efforts late last year to put together a subscription service, say three media executives involved in the talks, who requested anonymity because they did not have approval to discuss the negotiations. Consumers would have been able to purchase only those shows they want in an a la carte model, rather than pay for hundreds of channels they never watch.
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