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caption: Examples of HTC device locations that CNET extracted from Microsoft’s Live.com location database. (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET) Microsoft has collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world and makes them available on the Web without taking the privacy precautions that competitors have, CNET has learned. The vast [...]

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By Daniel Eran Dilger Published: 04:00 PM EST 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 (20 percent). The results, tabulated for June 2011 by Nielsen, show widespread use of Android by HTC, Motorola, [...]

(Credit: Nielsen) Looking at the mobile industry by device makers, Apple is the only company making smartphones with iOS, giving it the leading share among U.S. consumers at 28 percent. That leaves some of the other device makers more fragmented with smaller chunks of the market. Other top device makers include HTC with 14 percent of Android customers and 6 percent of users running Windows Mobile/Windows [...]

(Credit: Nielsen) Looking at the mobile industry by device makers, Apple is the only company making smartphones with iOS, giving it the leading share among U.S. consumers at 28 percent. That leaves some of the other device makers more fragmented with smaller chunks of the market. Other top device makers include HTC with 14 percent of Android customers and 6 percent of users running Windows Mobile/Windows [...]