ComScore (http://www.comscore.com), which “measures the digital world,” has released new data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending May 2012. The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.7% market share.
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Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
Sarun Wongpatcharapakorn has announced Last Time for iOS. It’s an US$1.99 event tracker app that answers just one simple question: “When was the last time you did something?”
Life Changing Apps has released Mmmh 1.0 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It’s a $0.99 decision making app designed to help users navigate through almost any conundrum they come across in their everyday lives.
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By Rick Sutcliffe
What boundary is the link between young and old?
Is the Spy old because he hits a significant-sounding birthday number on July 3? Perhaps. After all, two nations celebrate his birthday annually, albeit one two days early, and another a day late. And, next year will be the thirtieth since he first typed this column on his Apple II.
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Here are the latest Apple rumors from the blogosphere:
“While the convenience of Apple’s Siri comes with searching by voice, a new test has found that Apple’s personal assistant is not yet a reliable enough search engine to entirely replace text input with Google.” — “AppleInsider” (http://www.appleinsider.com)
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Apple, with its iCloud, and other companies that offer cloud storage apparently have some work to do convincing folks such storage is safe.
Following the latest report released on Monday by the Gartner research group (http://www.gartner.com), which focused on the future of digital storage in “the cloud,” one of the leading coupon code websites in the US has conducted a flash-poll of Americans to discover more about their opinions towards cloud storage; and whether they would feel comfortable in using cloud-based services at home.