Apple Is The World’s Largest Buyer Of Semiconductor Chips

Apple’s success in the smartphone and tablet market has brought it an unprecedented success. iPad and iPhone are flying right of the shelves in millions and this has hugely increased the semiconductor consumption of Apple, making it the largest chip buyer in the whole world. Although Samsung comes second in the list, it is still far off in terms of buying volume, when compared to Apple.

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Windows Phone Outselling iPhone In China, Lags Far Behind Android

According to Microsoft executives, Windows Phone has gained traction in the Chinese market over iPhone. After just two months of launch in the Chinese market, Windows Phone has acquired 7% of the market. This is a tad higher than the 6% market share hold by iPhone.

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Windows Phone 8 OS May Launch In Late 2012

Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform is slowly gaining traction on the shoulders of Nokia’s Lumia smartphones. And both Nokia and Microsoft seem committed to make it a success. To this end, Microsoft has been working on the next iteration of its mobile operating system, Windows Phone. Now, an Israeli publication has claimed that it will launch this next version by the end of 2012.

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Baidu Gears Up For A New Cloud OS And A Possible Smartphone Release

Baidu is the most popular search engine in China. With a popular exceeding a billion, this means that Baidu has a huge user base to its name. And that is why, the company is considered a huge player in the arena of Asian tech world. Baidu has a knack of developing an alternate version of nearly every mainstream tech object, including an alternate of Android which it named Yi. It is now being reported that the company has further plans with it.

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Samsung Lays Emphasis On Software, Open To Future Acquisitions

For long, Samsung has been rather pretty closed as a company. It would manufacture most of its hardware and software on its own. But with the rapidly changing paradigms of the mobile world, the company has come to realize that it may have to go out of its own box to stay abreast of the changes. And for that, if it had to acquire other mobile companies, it will.

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99 Percent Of All Handset Profits Go To Samsung And Apple

The mobile industry has been rapidly expanding over time. However, at the same time, many notable industry players such as RIM, LG and others have gone down and are not performing good at all. The vital question, then, is that where is all the profit from the expansion of handset market going? A report by Asymco not furnished the answer : to Apple and Samsung.

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Samsung Overtakes Apple To Grab The Top Smartphone Market-Share in First Quarter

Samsung has long been competing Apple to grab hold of the top share of the smartphone market. Samsung already was able to beat Nokia to become the largest handset vendor globally this quarter. And now, although Apple has shown impressive growth, Samsung has improved lot more and is finally able to grab the top spot in the smartphone market in terms of market share.

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Samsung Galaxy Updates: Quad-Core Processor In The Upcoming Galaxy Smartphone Confirmed

All eyes are set on Samsung as it is gradually moving towards what nearly everyone expects to be a launch event for the upcoming flagship Galaxy device on May 3rd. The company released somewhat of a teaser earlier and has pricked up our interests. Now, Samsung has confirmed that the new Galaxy smartphone will come equipped with a quad-core Exynos 4 Quad processor.

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