In Pictures: 8 things you might not know about Android
Some lesser-known facts about Google's mobile OS
Stories by Jon Gold
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Analyst: iPhone price pressure means smartphone profits have peaked
The overall profitability of the smartphone market hit its apex in 2012, according to a prominent equity analyst.
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Is Android in the business world to stay?
It's official, and it's been official for a while -- Android is far and away the most popular smartphone OS in America. Ever since January 2011, when the platform surpassed RIM to take the top spot for the first time in comScore's monthly market share rankings, Google's operating system has continued to grow its user base, which accounts for 52% of the market as of this January.
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Do's and don'ts for using Android in business
While it's important to remember that the use of Google Android software in the enterprise is still a comparatively young phenomenon, there are a few general guidelines that businesses looking to use the platform would do well to remember.
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Report: Samsung grabs about one-third of market with 70M-plus Q1 smartphone sales
Samsung's total worldwide smartphone sales have likely totaled more than 70 million units in the first quarter of 2013, or roughly a third of the overall market, according to a new report from Counterpoint Research.
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Silver Peak announces virtual appliance for offsite replication
Silver Peak Systems announced a new virtual application designed to dramatically speed up data duplication for disaster recovery without the purchase of additional hardware.
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Official Twitter app for Ubuntu Touch canceled
A Canonical software engineer told a public mailing list on Friday that there would be no official Twitter app released with Ubuntu Touch.
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HTC One's US smartphone launch delayed until 'end of April'
HTC announced Friday that its well-received HTC One smartphone won't go on sale in the U.S. until sometime "before the end of April," according to an emailed statement.
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 is great, but do we all have awe fatigue?
Now that the Galaxy S 4 has finally landed and the Android blogosphere collectively cries out for something else to obsess over, it's interesting to look at what the reaction to the official unveiling of The Next Big Thing™©® has been like.
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Red Band's latest updater software allows for on-the-fly partition resizing
Android updates are getting just that little bit easier to push out over the air today, with the release of Version 8 of Red Band Software's vRapid Mobile product.
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Head to head: Samsung Galaxy S4 vs. HTC One
With last week's launch of the Galaxy S 4, Samsung made the kind of splash that most non-Apple smartphone makers can only dream of. The company's glitzy reveal -- complete with tap dancing, theatrical sketches and a full pit orchestra -- drew criticism as well as praise, but the phone itself did much to justify the hype.
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Gartner: Don't expect miracles from BlackBerry's recent facelift
Gartner analysts said in a report released Monday that BlackBerry's new BB10 software isn't going to achieve world-beating results anytime soon. Even BlackBerry officials have literally begun singing the praises of the new Z10 smartphone in anticipation of its arrival in the U.S. market on Friday.
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Bomgar CEO talks mobility, cloud risks and old cars
To hear founder and CEO Joel Bomgar tell it, he might never have started his eponymous company if he'd had a cooler car.
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In Pictures: The Goog-father. Google's big shakeup isn't personal ... just business
Today, Google takes care of all family business
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In Pictures: Samsung Galaxy S 4
Samsung's long-awaited flagship Android smartphone doesn't fail to impress
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