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iOS devices affecting Mac's web share worldwide

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2010)

There's a new set of web share stats out in the US, and it appears that on a worldwide scale, the iPhone and other iOS devices are taking a bite out of normal computers' web browsing, but specifically more for Macs than Windows PCs. That's the conclusion in the new Net Applications report, which ...

Apple gains 19% share of portable gaming market, 5% of everything

by Mike Schramm (Mar 24th, 2010)

Flurry's got lots of new data this week -- earlier, we heard that 44% of apps coming to the iPad are going to be games, and now they're saying that Apple is making huge headway into the gaming market overall. According to the latest numbers, the iPhone OS has nabbed 15% of the mobile game market ...

Apple hires two more for mobile ad sales

by Mike Schramm (Feb 5th, 2010)

In addition to their Quattro Wireless buy last month, Apple has picked up two more new employees that seems like additions to an incoming mobile advertising business. Theo Theodorou was picked up from Microsoft's mobile advertising sales department and will head sales in Europe, the Middle East, ...

Leaf Trombone out now in the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2009)

I've been down on the fine folks at Smule in the past -- I've said that their app Ocarina seems kind of silly (even if people have created some pretty awesome stuff with it and other less annoying music apps). And about the only thing they could have done to make it up to me was to develop some ...

WorldWide Telescope: Works great on a Mac (if you have Windows)

by Robert Palmer (May 19th, 2008)

You might have heard that Microsoft Research has released WorldWide Telescope (WWT), it's software to devour the universe whole provide a fun way to browse the planets and stars. The BBC mentioned that you can run WWT on your Mac ... so long as you have Windows on your Mac. Sigh. VMWare helpfully ...

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