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After seven months of hogging the tablet spotlight, Apple has competition. Apple not only straddles the escalating tablet and smartphone markets but also holds sway across the computer, home-entertainment, and media fields. The moves it makes can affect the future of hundreds of companies. Earlier this week, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion announced that its PlayBook [...]

AT&T on Monday announced new features for subscribers of its U-verse pay TV service who own Microsoft-powered devices. Owners of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console will be able to use the device in place of an AT&T set-top box to tune in U-verse programming. Meanwhile, upcoming phones running Windows Phone 7 that are sold by [...]

Microsoft officially took the wraps off Windows Phone 7, the next version of the company’s mobile platform the company is hoping can win back market share from iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. In its announcement, Big Redmond is emphasizing the idea that the platform has been built around the twin pillars of being “…always delightful” and [...]

Google’s Android has surpassed Apple’s iOS and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS to become the most popular smartphone operating system in the United States, a research firm says. During the six months ending in August, the number of people who bought Android smartphones increased steadily, culminating in 32% buying the devices in August, Nielsen reported [...]

Smartphone fanatics have been waiting for months for a Google Voice app to come to the Apple iPhone. Now there’s a new sign that this may happen soon. A developer behind one such controversial smartphone app says he has resubmitted his app to Apple and expects it to be approved in a matter of days. [...]

According to a new research note from UBS Investment Research, Apple could sell 28 million iPads in 2011, perhaps affecting sales of lower end PCs. In addition, Um reportedly suggested that “consumers who purchase iPads may be more willing to delay purchases and upgrades of existing PCs,” although he stopped short of suggesting the iPad [...]

According to an industry report released Monday by Frost and Sullivan projected that smartphones will make up over half of Asian cellphone sales by 2015, with estimated 477 million units to be sold. Smartphones would total about 54 percent of the Asia-Pacific market in five years. The consultancy also said demand for data services would [...]

The manufacturer of BlackBerry smart phones has been issued an ultimatum on Thursday by India: Allow access to highly encrypted information by August 31 or face a blockage of two popular messaging systems. The real-time messaging services have been under scrutiny because the encryptions make it impossible for intelligence agencies to monitor and, thus, India [...]