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ChangeWave poll finds 96% of users satisfied with iPhone 4S

Up from 93% with iPhone 4. What they like most: Siri. Least: Too short battery life.

Source: ChangeWave

Despite widely publicized reports of unexplained battery drainage, the satisfaction ratings on Apple's (AAPL) latest iPhone continue to hover in what ChangeWave research director Paul Carton calls "nosebleed territory."

In a survey of 215 new iPhone 4S owners, 77% declared themselves...

ExtremeTech: Carrier IQ-gate is best reason to buy an iPhone

A cellphone eavesdropping scandal casts a shadow on Apple's competitors

Caught red-handed: Carrier IQ logging Eckhart's keystrokes

Have you heard that every text message, every e-mail, every phone number, every keystroke made on a Google (GOOG) Android phone may be secretly recorded, logged and sent to your cellular provider by a tracking service called Carrier IQ?

No? That's...

Apple passes on new CTIA and ESRB mobile app ratings

The CTIA has introduced a new five-point mobile app rating system and voluntary program operated by the ESRB who have been slapping similar “everyone” and “adults only” ratings on video games since the early 90s. Not so surprisingly, the biggest and second biggest players in the mobile app space, Apple and Google, aren’t supporting the...

Google maps the indoors. Finding nearest bathroom has never been easier

Google has begun mapping indoor establishments like malls, airports, and retail stores, and today added the first indoor maps to its application for Android. Now, air travelers don't have to bother with information booths a......

Nielsen: iPhone & Android own 71% of U.S. smartphone market

83% of the apps downloaded in the past month were for a Google or Apple phone

Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen

The U.S. smartphone market is starting to look like a two-horse race, judging from data scheduled to be released Wednesday by a Nielsen general manager at AppNation III in San Francisco. Among the new findings:

44% of...

Apple, Google absent from ESRB’s new mobile app rating system

The Entertainment Software Ratings Board intends to apply its familiar game-rating stamps to mobile apps, providing a way for parents to monitor and restrict the games and content their kids download. Five mobile operators and Microsoft have signed on but Apple and Google are missing.

iPhones and iPads top teen wish lists this Christmas

Only "money" and "clothes" scored higher in an annual pre-holiday survey

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For 22 years, Piper Jaffray researchers have been asking American teenagers what they want for Christmas, and for the past four years Apple (AAPL) products have been moving steadily up the wish lists.

All told, according to a note to clients issued Monday by...

IBM report: iPhones and iPads accounted for 10.2% of Black Friday online retail traffic

Online sales were up 24.3% overall. iPad shoppers were most efficient. Android less so.

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Apple (AAPL) devices figured prominently in an IBM (IBM) Smarter Commerce survey issued Saturday that reported double digit increases in online sales Thanksgiving Day (up 39.3% from 2010) and Black Friday (up 24.3%) and a 200% increase in purchases made on mobile...

Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work

Google has shown a significant commitment to efficiency and renewable energy, using its RE < C initiative to invest in a variety of window power projects and map the US's geothermal resources. But, not...

Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work

Google has shown a significant commitment to efficiency and renewable energy, using its RE < C initiative to invest in a variety of wind power projects and map the US's geothermal resources. But, not...

Amazon, Apple and Verizon join the Black Friday ad wars

Three new TV spots in advance of the holiday selling season

Following a pair of exceptionally well-produced spots from Samsung -- one tasteful, one clever -- pushing their newest Google (GOOG) Android phones, we have three fresh TV ads from Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Verizon (VZ). The latter doesn't seem to have gotten the memo...

New Android TV spot mocks the iPhone’s customer base

The ad wars heat up as Samsung attacks Apple with the most effective weapon: humor

Samsung has certainly stepped up its marketing game in advance of the 2011 holiday selling season.

Last week it was a TV ad for the new Galaxy Nexus -- due to arrive in the U.S. in December -- that had the look...