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Google’s Page: Apple’s Android Pique ‘For Show’News from BusinessWeek: On April 3, Google (GOOG) co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Larry Page sat down with Bloomberg Businessweek to discuss his first year at the helm of the technology giant, his plans for the future, and the company’s relationships with its competitors. Excerpts: When you took over [...]

Apple win in patent case a setback for Google’s AndroidNews from Washington Post: Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. won a patent-infringement ruling that bans some HTC Corp. smartphones from the U.S. starting next year, bolstering efforts to prove that devices running Google Inc.’s Android operating system copy the iPhone. The U.S. International Trade Commission, [...]

Apple’s Jobs Vowed to Nuke Android: BiographyNews from eWeek: Google Android’s very existence drove Steve Jobs into a fury, according to Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography of the late Apple CEO. The book, quoted extensively by the Associated Press ahead of its Oct. 23 release, features Jobs pledging “thermonuclear war” against Google Android, which he termed [...]

Apple to face fast Android tablets News from CNET: Apple’s iPad will likely have to contend with a bevy of high-performance Android tablets due this year. Nvidia is on the record saying that tablets powered by its quad-core Kal-El chip are coming this fall. “Kal-El-powered tablets are coming this fall, and phones around the CES [...]

Android giving away most software but Apple selling most smartphones News from Apple Insider: By Daniel Eran Dilger The Android software platform led by Google is now installed on 39 percent of US consumer smartphones, but Apple remains the largest smartphone manufacturer with the iPhone (at 28 percent) and RIM is second largest with Blackberry [...]

Android and Apple gain smartphone share while RIM falls, report says News from Los Angeles Times: Android is tearing up the smartphone market, with Apple in second and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion eating dust at a distant third, according to a new report by research firm ComScore. Smartphones running on Google’s Android operating system [...]

Symantec Compares Apple iOS, Google Android Security Features News from eWeek: Even though both Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android smartphone operating systems are pretty secure, they are still susceptible to multiple types of attacks, Symantec said. Android and iOS were designed with mobile security in mind and were superior to traditional desktop operating systems, Symantec [...]