AI & Cloud

Research firm Canalys says that Apple has taken the lead in the US smartphone market with a 26% share, displacing former leader RIM.

Twitter and Amazon’s Kindle are the latest big names to get behind Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform

Taiwan handset maker HTC said today it expects fourth-quarter revenue to more than double to NT$100 billion (US$3.27 billion) from NT$41 billion a year earlier.

There is speculation that Google is readying a successor to the Nexus One smartphone, despite the fact that Eric Schmidt, the CEO of the company, has ruled-out a second device in the line.

Taiwanese publication DigiTimes reports that HTC is looking to ship 8.5 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2010, up from 7 million in Q3, bolstered by the introduction of new Android and Windows Phone 7 devices.

Digital security company Gemalto became the latest player to join the handset patent wars, filing a infringement suit in the US against Google, HTC, Motorola and Samsung, while Microsoft is reported to be in talks with Taiwanese vendors about the use of its patents in Android devices.

The global smartphone market grew 78 percent in the third quarter of 2010, shipping 77 million units, with Apple the star performer as the Californian vendor stole second place from RIM