Microsoft sells 1.6M Windows Phone handsets in Q1
According to research firm Gartner, although Microsoft shipped 2 million Windows Phone units during Q4 of 2010, it sold 1.6 million units during Q1 of 2011.”Windows …
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IMS: Tablet market to continue hurting PC makers through 2011
Market research firm IMS Research on Tuesday said the growing market for tablets and eReaders will continue to have a significant impact on portable PC …
Berg: Smartphone shipments grew 74% in 2010
According to new data issued by wireless market intelligence firm Berg Insight on Thursday, the global smartphone market grew by nearly three-quarters in 2010. Global …
Apple shipped 1.1 million MacBook Air laptops last quarter, analyst claims
Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed on Saturday that Apple shipped a total of 1.1 million MacBook Air units over the course of the refreshed …
T-Mobile takes a beating in Q4 2010; sheds 318,000 contract customers, post-paid churn at 3.6%
The fourth quarter of 2010 — the busy holiday quarter — was not all that fruitful for the U.S.’s forth largest wireless provider. In an …
Google video visualizes global Android activations
No platform in recent history has grown as fast as Google’s Android OS, and now Google has created a quick video to help us visualize …
Apple remained king of app stores in 2010; Nokia’s Ovi Store revenue ironically up 719%
IHS, new owner of research firm iSuppli, has issued its full-year data on app stores in 2010. According to the company’s report, Apple’s market share …
Sprint’s Q4: subscribers up, churn down; still losing money
Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I inform you that U.S. wireless provider Sprint, for the first time in thirteen quarters, has …
For first time ever, smartphones outsell PCs in Q4 of 2010
If you’re a hardware manufacturer trying to figure out where to delegate R&D funds, you might want to pay attention to this. According to an …
Android tablets finally dent iPad market share
Lead by the impressive sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, the Android platform is finally starting to gain momentum in the emerging consumer tablet market. Analytics …
Android dethrones Symbian as No. 1 smartphone OS, says Canalys
Canalys today becomes the first major firm to report a changing of the guard we all knew was coming. According to the industry watcher’s fourth-quarter …
Samsung reports Q4 earnings: revenue and income grow, profit slides
Samsung on Friday reported its fourth quarter and full year 2010 earnings, highlighting revenue and net income growth but missing Wall Street’s consensus as operating …
ZTE displaces Apple as No. 4 phone maker; RIM bumped from top 5
Chinese consumer electronics company ZTE exploded from the “other” category in the fourth quarter of 2010 to displace Apple as the No. 4 cell phone …
Microsoft reports record revenue in fiscal Q2
Microsoft on Thursday announced its earnings for the second quarter of the company’s 2011 fiscal year. In the quarter, which ended on December 31st, 2010, …
Nokia Q4 earnings: profits fall for third straight quarter, market share slides
Nokia revealed its third consecutive decline in profits as the struggling cell phone maker reported its fourth-quarter 2010 earnings. Net sales grew 6% year-over-year to …
Microsoft partners sold 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices last quarter
Microsoft confirmed to Bloomberg that its partners sold over 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices to carriers and retail partners last quarter. The company also …
Motorola Mobility reports Q4, full year earnings; Q1 2011 guidance bleak
Motorola Mobility on Wednesday reported its fourth quarter and full year 2010 earnings. It also gave grim but anticipated guidance for the first quarter of …
Verizon adds 872,000 subscribers, doubles profit in fourth quarter
Shares of Verizon Communications stock slid over 1% in after-hours trading Tuesday morning as the company reported its fourth quarter earnings. Despite almost doubling profit …
Google reports strong Q4 results; $8.4 billion in revenue, $7.81 earnings per share
Aside from announcing a management change during this afternoon’s earnings call, Google also decided to go over its numbers for Q4 of 2010. Google raked in $8.44 …
Sony Ericsson sees small profit in Q4; shipments decline
Things have been rough for Sony Ericsson over the past couple of years. Intriguing new gear is on the way from this once-great Swedish joint …
Apple posts record Q1 results; 16.2 million iPhones, 7.3 million iPads, $26.7 billion in revenue
Moments ago, Apple announced its fiscal year 2011 Q1 earnings. The Cupertino based technology firm sold a record 16.24 million iPhones, 7.33 million iPads, 4.13 million Macs, and …
Xbox 360 has biggest year ever in 2010
Over five years after the Xbox 360 launched in November 2005, the console powered through the 2010 holiday season — racking up its biggest sales …
MetroPCS announces record subscriber growth in 2010
MetroPCS announced on Thursday impressive subscriber growth in the fourth quarter of 2010. Having amassed approximately 1.5 million net new subscribers over the course of …
Microsoft Kinect sales surpass 8 million units in first 60 days
During Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show this evening, Microsoft confirmed some pretty outstanding sales figures for the Kinect sensor. …
Samsung Galaxy S sales surpass 10 million in 2010
We’re just three days into 2011 and Samsung is already reminiscing about the big year it had in 2010. Between sales of its Galaxy S …
2010: Phones, fires and 4G
2010 was quite the interesting year for the tech industry and here on BGR, the smartphone was king. Adoption of Google’s Android OS skyrocketed, Microsoft …
Facebook most searched term, visited site of 2010 in U.S.
This comes as no surprise. Social networking juggernaut Facebook was the most-searched term and most-visited website of 2010, according to Experian Hitwise. Facebook, which was …
