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Thanks to the growth of smartphones and tablets, entertainment consumption on mobile devices has grown 82 percent from 2010 to 2011.  Read Original Content

As of the three months ended July, Google's mobile OS held a 52.2 percent share of the market, a gain of 1.4 points from the prior three months, ComScore said today. In second place, Apple's iOS grabbed 33.4 percent of the market, up 2 points from the prior period.  Read Original Content

Hewlett-Packard released the eagerly anticipated beta version of its open-source webOS mobile operating system.  Read Original Content

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According to new data from comScore, for a three-month average period ending in July, 234 million Americans age 13 and older used mobile devices. Samsung ranked as the top OEM with 25.6 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers, followed by LG with 18.4 percent share.  Read Original Content

Research in Motion’s share of the U.S. smartphone market is below 10 percent for the first time ever.  Read Original Content

Microsoft and Intel dominance will see serious erosion over the next few years in the era of the tablet and smartphone, market researcher IHS iSuppli said.  Read Original Content

More than half of Americans who use apps say they have decided not to install one once they found out how much personal information they'd have to share, according to a study released from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Read Original Content

Nokia unveiled its latest effort, two sleek new phones built atop the latest version of Microsoft's mobile platform, Windows 8, in early September in the wake of the chaos and confusion surrounding a jury verdict that found Samsung had infringed on several Apple patents.  Read Original Content

Worldwide BYOD and enterprise mobility market is expected to increase from $67.21 billion in 2011 to reach $181.39 billion by 2017, rising at a compound annual growth rate of 15.17 percent, according to a report by MarketsandMarkets.  Read Original Content

Apple and Google will dominate the smartphone market in coming years, accounting for a nearly 80 percent share of the smartphone market by 2016, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli Wireless Communications.  Read Original Content

According to Mobithinking.com, there are over 225,000 applications and counting. Apple counts about 5 billion app downloads, with each application being downloaded at least 22,222 times where every app generates about $4,444.44 revenue. Read Original Content

Sony expects to sell 34 million smartphones this fiscal year, and produce $23 billion in revenue from mobile devices in the year starting April 1, 2014. Read Original Content

According to retail checks conducted by analyst firm Canaccord Genuity, the Samsung Galaxy S3 outsold the iPhone 4S in the month of August, making the GS3 the number one smartphone in the U.S.  Read Original Content

Mobile apps now tie social media as the fourth-most popular way to get information in an emergency, following TV, radio and online news. A Red Cross survey found that 20 percent of Americans said they have gotten some kind of emergency information from an app, including emergency apps, those sponsored by news outlets and privately developed apps. Read Original Content

According to the latest smartphone sales figures from Kantar Worldpanel Comtech, Google-owned Android has jumped by more than 20 percent in share in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain markets, rising to 67.1 percent in the five major EU economies.  Read Original Content

Motorola Mobility and Verizon are reportedly planning to unveil a next-generation smartphone on September 5, boasting an edge-to-edge screen and LTE connectivity. According to a recent Bloomberg report, the handset will run a version of Google's Android mobile OS. Read Original Content

Samsung Electronics became the first handset maker to announce a smartphone using Microsoft's latest mobile software, making its surprise, hurried announcement just days before the highly anticipated launch of Nokia's version.  Read Original Content

A wave of new smartphones and other mobile devices is expected to hit the market this fall, but there is some concern that there might not be enough chips for those products available to meet demand.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict, Mobility Analyst and Consultant Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict