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Canada’s use of mobile technology is growing quickly

10/30/201510/28/2015 Julie Campbell

The country’s regulator has shown that a rising number of Canadians own smartphones and are using them more. According to mobile technology figures that have recently been released by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), two out of every three people in that country now own a smartphone and about half of the people of Canada have a tablet computer. The CRTC’s report showed that Canadians are rapidly taking on some of the latest in consumer computing devices. The three part report focused on the Canadian telecom industry as…

Report shows three quarters of mobile phone profits belong to Apple

02/07/201202/07/2012 John Montgallo

Though Apple currently holds a share of approximately 9 percent of the worldwide mobile phone, a recent report by Horace Dediu, an analyst from Asymco, has shown that its profits and sales are significantly greater, having taken in 75 percent of all of the mobile industry’s profits in the last quarter of 2011. The remainder of the profits in Q4 of 2011, according to Asymco, went to Samsung (16 percent), RIM and its BlackBerry (3.7 percent), HTC (3 percent), and Nokia (1.8 percent). All told, the profits received by the…

The A War…Apple vs. Android: A fight for first place

04/06/201104/20/2011 Jesse Collins

Android technology may be overtaking Apple by 2012. IT and technology experts who attended the Droidcon developers’ summit in Berlin last week, are confident that Android has what it takes to be the new number one. Android is the open source software developed by Google. In the last three years Apple has sold more than 85 million iPhones and iPod touch devices. Statistics from late 2010 show that Google’s Android phones rose in sales so rapidly, they outsold Apple handsets for the first time on record. Google’s phones made up…