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iOS has second place in global mobile operating system market

iOS has second place in global mobile operating system market

Posted by | Mar 8, 2011 | , |

Google’s Android mobile operating system overtook RIM’s BlackBerry globally for the first time on a monthly basis in February according to web analytics company, StatCounter (http://www.statcounter.com).

Its research arm StatCounter Global Stats finds that Android recorded 15.2% of the worldwide market compared to 14.5% for BlackBerry. Nokia’s Symbian still leads the global market with 30.7% with Apple’s iOS in second place with 24.6%.

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ComScore: Apple has 7% of mobile subscriber market

ComScore: Apple has 7% of mobile subscriber market

Posted by | Mar 7, 2011 | , |

ComScore (http://www.comscore.com), a company that measures the digital world, has released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending January 2011. According to comScore, Apple had 7% of the mobile subscriber market, down, up from 6.4% in the previous study.

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Greg’s bite: Flummoxed defined

Greg’s bite: Flummoxed defined

Posted by | Mar 7, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

While I think I have a pretty good vocabulary at my disposal, the word “flummoxed”, which Steve Jobs used when he dropped the iPad 2 bomb on the PC market, perplexed me.  

I was pretty sure he wasn’t complementing the competition, but I had to Google the word to fully understand what he was saying. Having studied up on the word flummox and it’s deviates, I thought it might be fun to define the word in the context of the PC market, in a way everyone would fully appreciate. 

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