by Simon Hill, 7 months ago

Android is continuing to dominate the worldwide smartphone market. According to the IDC, reporting on the second quarter of 2012, Android has a 68 percent market share with more than 500 million globally activated devices….

by Andrew Grush, 8 months ago

Recently, there was quite a bit of drama caused by the cancellation of Acer’s Aliyun OS-based smartphone. Google made it clear that they wouldn’t let Acer release its Chinese-market CloudMobile smartphone. Google’s reason was that…

by Nathan Snyder, 8 months ago

It seems as if this may be the year for finger-pointing, as we’ve seen the epic Apple vs. Samsung trial, HTC vs. Apple, White House vs. Google, and now Google vs. Alibaba. The accusations are…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 8 months ago

Ladies and gentlemen, the mobile OS war is getting into high gear, and apart from iOS, Android and Windows Phone, we have yet another contender intent to take the smartphone world by storm. This time,…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 8 months ago

Credit: leondel/Flickr This week, a report hit the web claiming that Google has strong-armed Acer into cancelling the launch of the CloudMobile A800, a smartphone running Aliyun, the Android-based operating system developed by Chinese ecommerce…

by Chris Smith, 8 months ago

Google’s “Don’t be evil” is weaker and weaker every time the search giant does something against its own motto. How many times did we see Google somehow managing to infringe on the customer’s privacy? How…

by J. Angelo Racoma, 8 months ago

China has the biggest mobile market today, with about 1 billion users. Since smartphones currently constitute a small minority of this industry, there is much room for growth. But with Google mostly absent from China,…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 11 months ago

Alibaba and Haier might not say much to the mainstream Western technology user, but the Chinese smartphone lovers (on a budget) should definitely remember the two companies’ names. The two companies are planning to release…