Millennial Media, a mobile advertising company, has released a report on impression share in the mobile ad market for August. Android led the industry with a 54 percent share of total impressions. Millennial combined data for tablets, smartphones, and other connected devices for its report. Apples iOS commanded 28 percent of impressions. READ MORE
HTC’s new Android-powered Rhyme is getting a lot of attention for its seeming gender politics. The new phone, dubbed the “lady phone” by some in the industry, seems to target the female demographic—and not necessarily in a good way. READ MORE
For those of you returning this week from vacation, you are walking in mid-drama to a lot of $h*# that hit the fan last week in the tech world. The big news this week will surely be follow up stories to the two big stories that broke last week: first, Google announced it’s buying Motorola Mobility and second, Hewlett Packard appears to be repositioning itself to be a software company instead of a hardware company. READ MORE
What started out as a way to protect inventors before they took their inventions public has turned into what bNet’s Erik Sherman is calling a second tech bubble: a tech patent bubble. READ MORE
No question: Google’s acquisition of Motorola will shake up the mobile landscape. But what exactly will the post-shakeup landscape look like? CNET‘s Marguerite Reardon has come up with five possible scenarios, some of them pretty interesting, as to how the rest of the market might respond. READ MORE
HTC, a Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer, filed a complaint Tuesday against Apple in the U.S. District Court of Delaware over patent infringements. READ MORE
To be frank, HTC didn’t need to buy Dr. Dre’s company, Beats Electronics, to earn street cred—the company has already built a strong reputation for its smartphones. But the company will acquire 51 percent controlling of Beats for $309 million. What’s behind the acquisition? READ MORE
Good news for fans of the little green robot: According to Nielsen, as of June, Android tops the U.S. smartphone OS market, grabbing a full 39 percent market share. Apple, its closest competitor, finished a distant second at 28 percent. Bringing up the rear are BlackBerry OS at 20 percent and Windows Phone 7 at 9 percent. On the hardware front, however, Apple still managed to retain the title of top manufacturer. In all fairness, Apple’s victory in this category is relatively easy since it is the only company to produce iOS devices; meanwhile, Android’s OS finds its way to devices made by Motorola, HTC, and Samsung. RIM, the makers of Blackberry, surprisingly finished a close second to Apple in the manufacturing department, commanding a 20 percent chunk of the market. Nielsen based its results on a sample of roughly 20,000 people, all of whom are postpaid customers. Read more from TechCrunch.
HTC and Apple may be reaching a détente in a patent feud that began early this month. The International Trade Commission found Apple in violation of two graphics patents, and then Apple had its own day when the ITC granted them a win over HTC in a dispute over two separate patents. The rulings are initial and subject to review. READ MORE
A U.S. International Trade Commission judge issued an initial ruling that HTC violated two key patents owned by Apple, a move that dragged HTC’s stock to a six-month low in Taiwan trading and raised uncertainty about the company, writes Roger Cheng for CNET. In response, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt says his company will support its key Android partner in its patent fight with Apple. READ MORE
