Year: 2010

Millennial Media: Android ties iOS for largest smartphone OS

Millennial Media: Android ties iOS for largest smartphone OS

Posted by | Nov 19, 2010 | , |

Mobile ad network Millennial Media says its latest figures show that this month, for the first time, Android tied with Apple’s iOS as the largest smartphone OS on the Millennial network, with an 8% increase month-over-month and 37% impression share.

Android ad requests grew 65% month-over-month, and since January, Android has now grown 2182%. The iPod touch was included on the list of top mobile devices for the first time, and was number three (ahead of phones like the Motorola Droid) .

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I’m an iPad/MacBook Air man

Posted by | Nov 19, 2010 | , |

Well, my goal of using my iMac as my main computer and an iPad with a keyboard as a secondary system for writing articles, checking email, etc., just never panned out. I simply missed having an Apple laptop when I was away from my iMac for an extended period.

Using an external keyboard with my iPad worked okay for short articles, brief email responses and the like. But when I’m doing my daily workload — which involves jumping between Pages, Mail, Safari and iCal, among other apps. The iOS just isn’t up to snuff for that just yet (we’ll see if iOS 4.2 changes my mind).

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iToner update updated for iTunes 10.1, iOS 4.2

Posted by | Nov 19, 2010 | , |

Ambrosia Software has updated iToner (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/itoner/), an utility for Mac OS X that lets iPhone users create and install custom ringtones on the Apple communications device, to version 2.0.7. This update addresses compatibility issues with iTunes 10.1 and iOS 4.2, as well as minor changes to improve the iToner user experience and reliability.

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