comScore (http://www.comscore.com), a company that “measures the digital world,” has released data from the comScore MobiLens service analyzing growth trends of the smartphone platforms across the five leading European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom). In July 2011, nearly one in four smartphone users in EU5 reported using smartphones running on the Google Android platform.
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By Greg Mills
The US president of HTC has been widely quoted in the press proclaiming his research indicates that iPhone is no longer cool with young people. Is there an Android app for finding out just what hard drug or alcoholic mind bender the guy is on?
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By Greg Millls
Microsoft, stung by critics and stockholders alike, for missing the mobile revolution, is still playing catch-up on smart phones and now tablet computers. Apple is merging the iOS with OS X in many respects and Microsoft has taken a cue from Apple to do something similar with it’s flagship PC operating system and at least the look and feel of the new Windows Mobile OS, according to reports.
Read MoreAlex Izvekov has released Translate Tab 1.0 (http://translate-tab.com) for Mac OS X 10.7 (“Lion”). It’s a menu bar utility that provides instant language translation between 57 languages.
It’s available at an introductory price of US$1.99 from the Mac App Store in the Utilities category. The regular price is $3.99.
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Another day, another lawsuit. A company called Droplets (http://www.droplets.com/) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, Google, Facebook and Yahoo, reports “Patently Apple” (http://macte.ch/Rt8fs).
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