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Apple's iOS Beats Android? Not Exactly

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April 20, 2011
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Apple's iOS Beats Android? Not Exactly A new analysis claims Apple's iOS is smashing Android in terms of mobile market share. The story, however, isn't quite what it seems.
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Our Picks: The 10 Most Essential Apps for Android Phone Users Our Android expert discusses the 10 apps he just can't live without.
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iPhone 5 Will Debut in September, Sources Say Three people told Reuters that the next iteration of Apple's iPhone would go into production in the summer around June or July to get ready for the big launch in the fall.
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YouTube Swiftly Converts Videos in WebM Format WebM, which is intended for use with HTML5 video, is backed by Google, Mozilla, and Opera. YouTube is also working to transcode its entire video catalog to the format.
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Your iPhone and Your iPad Are Snooping on You Researchers discover that these devices store a record of your locations in an unencrypted file that gets backed up to your computer.
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Toshiba to Introduce Android Tablet in June Toshiba will launch its first tablet computer in late June in Japan and at around the same time in global markets, the company said Wednesday.
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After Delays, Windows Phones Get Update Microsoft started rolling out software updates to users of the Samsung Focus and LG Quantum, following more than a month of delays.
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Microsoft Discloses Chrome Security Bugs, Turning the Table on Google Microsoft kicked off its vulnerability disclosure policy for non-Microsoft products with two security reports covering products made by Google.
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Office 365: Not for Smaller Businesses Office 365 makes an attractive cloud office work proposition, but fails to unseat Google Apps for smaller businesses.
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Toshiba Laptop Does Simultaneous 2D and Glasses-Free 3D This Toshiba notebook supports both 2D and glasses-free 3D viewing simultaneously.
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White House App Comes to Android Marketplace The app contains behind-the-scenes photos and videos, updates from the blog and the briefing room, and mobile alerts about major events and announcements from the White House.
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Best Android Widgets: 19 Apps with a Personal Touch Here are 19 handpicked must-have Android widgets. With these apps you can put just the data you want onto your Android device's home screen. And most are free.
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PlayBook Launches Without BlackBerry Bridge Support from AT&T The highly-anticipated BlackBerry PlayBook tablet launched today, but AT&T customers are disgruntled because a key app is not available.
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LifeSize Ties Skype in to Videoconferencing Users of LifeSize Passport video rooms will be able to bring Skype users in to videoconferences with a free LifeSize software upgrade coming this month.
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No The Last Guardian in 2011, No ICO/Shadow of the Colossus This Spring Sony announces major delays for action-adventure The Last Guardian and re-mastered PS3 versions of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus.
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Microsoft Downplays Impact of Possible Supreme Court Patent Ruling The attorney who argued Microsoft's case before the Supreme Court Monday downplayed the impact on patent law if the jurists rule for the company.
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AT&T Racks Up iPhone Activations Despite Verizon Competition AT&T actually boosted its total iPhone activations, while maintaining the same churn rate for the device that it reported a year ago.
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The Children's Place Hit with Database Breach The children's clothing retailer says someone accessed its e-mail database and sent out a phishing message in an attempt to gather credit card information.
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Skype Plugs Android App Privacy Hole Skype says it has had no reported examples of third-party apps misusing information from the Skype directory on Android devices, but it is keeping an eye on things.
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Portal 2: A Little Better All The Time Portal 2 still has more foibles than virtues, but past the halfway mark it starts to show promise.
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