Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
The Juno Company has announced Juno’s Musical ABCs, an eBook app that gives children a way to learn and interact with the alphabet. It works with the iPhone and iPod touch and is available free for a limited time.
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Apple has overtaken Nokia for the first time to become the number one smartphone vendor in Australia, reports the “Sydney Morning Herald” (http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/apple-pips-nokia-to-become-no1-smartphone-maker-in-australia-20101207-18nci.html).
The iPhone now accounts for 36.5%of the smartphone market, compared to Nokia’s 30.5% share, according to IDC’s “Q3 Mobile Device Tracker” report. However, Google’s Android platform is growing even faster than Apple’s iOS with a 21%, up from 7.1% in quarter two (Q2) and only 2.1% in Q1.
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According to “El Economista” (http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://www.eleconomista.es/empresas-finanzas/noticias/2639712/11/10/Norman-Foster-trabaja-en-el-diseno-de-la-nueva-Ciudad-de-Apple-en-Cupertino.html), a Spanish-language financial daily paper — and as reported by “Fortune” (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/06/norman-foster-to-build-city-of-apple/), Apple CEO Steve Jobs has hired Forster + Partners to designed what the paper calls the “City of Apple” on the 150-acre parcel of commercial real estate Apple has accumula
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Approximately 60.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in October, up 14% from the preceding three-month period, representing one out of mobile subscribers, accodring to a new report by the comScore research group (http://www.comscore.com).
RIM was the leading mobile smartphone platform in the U.S. with 35.8% hare of U.S. smartphone subscribers, followed by Apple with 24.6% share (up 0.8 percentage points). Google Android saw another month of strong growth, rising 6.5 percentage points to capture 23.5% of smartphone subscribers.
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There are now 42 patents involves in the ongoing legal brouhaha between Apple and Motorola.
Apple now alleges that Motorola infringes 24 of its patents (21 of them with Android-based phones, the remaining 3 with set-top boxes and DVRs), while Motorola previously asserted 18 patents against a variety of Apple products (mostly but not exclusively iPhone, iPad and iPod), reports “Foss Patents” (http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/12/apple-vs-motorola-now-42-patents-in.html).
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