This week, Apple unveiled the first large-scale integration of iBeacon…
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Apple could have 250 million iBeacon-capable units in the wild by 2014
Yesterday, Apple began a small press push on its new iBeacon technology…
Apple turns on iBeacon to guide shoppers at 254 U.S. retail stores
Apple Inc. will begin using the technology at its 254 U.S. stores to send you…
Bar deploys Apple’s iBeacon to give patrons free access to Newsstand magazines
Beacon, Apple’s hyperlocal trigger tech in iOS 7…
Apple’s location-tracking iBeacon is poised to explode across retail faster than anyone can imagine
Embedded in Apple’s iOS 7’s flashier interface and multitasking features…
iOS 7 users: Apple’s secret retail weapon is already in your pocket
It’s been a month since Apple unleashed iOS 7 onto the world…
Attention, retailers: With iBeacon, Apple has figured out mobile marketing
For some time now, manufacturers and retailers have looked for the best ways…
Apple leads, the rest follow: Google dumps NFC requirement in Google Wallet app
Today, Google announced it’s rolling out a new version of the Google Wallet…
Apple’s brilliant iBeacons system will enable purchases, contextual marketing, automated check-ins and much more
Apple won’t just kill cash registers. They’ll probably kill NFC, too…
Apple v. Android: Bang per watt – Apple’s massive advantage
When your Android phone won’t communicate with others, it will be tough to rationalize…
Samsung looks to eliminate the Google middleman with its own San Francisco developers’ conference
Samsung plans to hold its first developers’ conference this October…
Google’s quarterly results badly miss analysts’ expectations
Mobile continues to bug Google…
Why Google’s Android is losing the war to Apple’s iOS
Today’s world is filled with flurry of reports and metrics…
Is Apple’s iOS fragmenting? Not nearly as much as Google’s Android
93 percent of Apple’s customers use iOS 6, a figure about which Google can only dream…
Apple heats up competition in key emerging market
Smartphone appetite among consumers of one of the most populous countries of the world…
Comparing the market share of Android phones to Apple’s iPhone is a damned lie
Why do we lump all Android phones together and count them as one?
EU antitrust regulators seek info from telecom firms, handset makers over Google’s Android
European Union antitrust regulators are asking mobile telecoms…
Apple redesigns widely criticized iOS 7 app icons
Apple iOS 7 is still in beta, and some or all of its visual cues…
Why Apple’s iOS 7 is a masterpiece of design
My first impression on seeing iOS 7 on my iPhone was…
Why Apple iPhone’s ongoing usage advantage over Android is so important
Apple’s iPhone handily beats Android…
Handset makers and carriers on quest for a third mobile platform to challenge Apple, Google
Some of the world’s biggest handset makers and telecom carriers…
Apple in deadline crunch mode for WWDC as Jony Ive’s team works on ‘deForstallization’ of iOS 7
iOS 7 is so significant a re-imagining of Apple’s mobile operating system that…
Apple’s iOS continues to dominate with nearly 60% Web usage share vs. Android’s 26%
Apple’s iOS continued to dominate with nearly 60% Web usage share versus Android’s 26% share…
Guess who makes money from Android?
Apple earned more than two thirds of the smartphone industry profits…
Mobile malware: Android is a bad apple
Android made up 97 percent of total mobile malware…
Yahoo rebounds as CEO Marissa Mayer leads mobile push
As Yahoo Inc. prepares to report first-quarter earnings next week, CEO Marissa Mayer…
Tomi Ahonen: Apple will revert to niche status as Chinese advance in smartphones
Hong Kong-based mobile expert Tomi Ahonen…
Google updates AdMob SDK for Apple’s iOS to drop UDID support
Google has finally released an update for its AdMob advertising SDK for iOS…
Raymond James: Survey shows higher iPhone customer loyalty, greater upgrade frequency vs. Android
The vast majority of iPhone users are very pleased with their experience…
Apple’s market disruption acuity is bad news for Android
Apple explicitly is not saturating the market with ‘device shipments’ just to gain market share…
The real reason Microsoft’s Windows Phone is failing
It’s no secret: Windows Phone sales stink…
Apple boosted by proxy statement from beleaguered Dell
On March 29, Dell filed a proxy statement outlining a case for shareholders to vote…
Apple’s mobile Web dominance continues to grow; iOS outpaces Android in Web usage
Two data points that counter the prevailing wisdom on Wall Street…
T-Mobile USA takeover of MetroPCS in doubt
T-Mobile USA’s takeover of MetroPCS Communications Inc. is in doubt…
What’s really behind China’s attacks on Apple and Android?
American technology is winning the smartphone wars…
Gartner: Beleaguered BlackBerry in an ‘extremely difficult’ spot
According to Gartner, market conditions will make it extremely difficult for beleaguered BlackBerry to rise above iOS…
Nearly 35% of Android apps in China secretly steal user data; ‘Android is fragmenting beyond Google’s control,’ says analyst
Google’s Android strategy is rapidly coming undone in China…
15 features Apple should include in iOS 7
Apple may not have targeted the enterprise directly yet with the iPhone and iPad…
The 451 Group acquires Yankee Group
Yankee Group, the preeminent research, data and advisory firm…
Pandora Media blames looming fiscal cliff for lowered outlook
Pandora Media Inc lowered its fourth-quarter guidance, blaming the looming fiscal cliff…
Texas Instruments to cut nearly 5% of its workforce
The Dallas company said it expects restructuring charges of $325 million…