Apple gained overall share as smartphones outsold feature phones for first time in 2013 - Apple accounted for 8.3 percent of the 1.8 billion handsets sold worldwide last year, up from 7.5 percent of the market in 2012, as buyers snapped up a greater number of smartphones than feature phones for the first time ever in a full year. The numbers were revealed in market research firm Gartner's final analysis of 2013.
The DeanBeat: The new golden age of gaming | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi - Now we have the Unity engine and the App Store. We can build games with small teams. We’re entering an age where the cost of building games will go down.
Judge denies Samsung new trial despite 'troubling' Apple appeal to prejudice - Samsung also pointed to other instances of racially charged comments, such as Apple's reference to "Samsung Korea" instead of "Samsung."
Why Canada is where smart VC money is going in 2014 | VentureBeat | Business | by Katherine Barr, Mohr Davidow Ventures - What makes many Canadian technology startups so attractive to investors is that the companies have sustainable business models, with real revenue and a focus on solving very large, albeit sometimes unsexy, problems.
Goran Kukurin - Google+ - Hello everyone! I wanted to share with you my story, maybe… - I wanted to share with you my story, maybe it will help somebody to prevent removal of your app by Google, without any notice, from Google Play. Google has decided to remove my app, Worldscope Webcams, from Google play store in the moment the application had 4.4 rating based on more than 11,000 user reviews and just a bit before the application reached one million downloads and after being available on Google play for four years.
Apple sued by University of Wisconsin over A7 chip at heart of iPhone, iPad - The lawsuit was necessary, the foundation alleges, because "Apple has stated that it is the policy of the company not to accept or consider proposals regarding licensing from outside entities like WARF for any purpose."
Adobe VideoBite, a bite-sized video editor for iPhone, now allows titles, photos & music | 9to5Mac - Adobe VideoBite, an iOS app designed to make video editing as quick and easy as possible, has been updated to allow titles, photos and music to be added, turning it into a fully-fledged editor while retaining its simple user-interface.
Apple looking to ramp production of new 'critical' sapphire component in U.S. by Feb. - Apple and manufacturing partner GT Advanced Technologies are pushing to open an advanced sapphire production facility in Arizona by the end of February, which will handle a new "critical subcomponent" to be incorporated in a future Apple product.
Google ordered to pay as much as $1 billion to patent troll Vringo | VentureBeat | Business | by Eric Blattberg - In 2011, the company purchased two patents involving the ranking and placement of ads in search results from Lycos, an old search engine, which it used to sue Google.
