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  • Windows Phone 7 market share creeps up 2% in 2 months

    In its first two months, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a>'s <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> Phone 7 gained a 2% share of the U.S. smartphone market, says research firm <a href="http://www.npd.com">The NPD Group</a>. During that period, the last quarter of 2010, Google <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a> increased its share by 9 points, to become the dominant <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/smartphones.html">smartphone</a> platform.

  • Apple trumpets iPad cannibalization

    Apple yesterday made its strongest statement yet that soaring iPad sales are affecting the laptop market, saying that the problem should concern its rivals.

  • Verizon iPhone impact on Android may be a wash

    Some analysts said Tuesday the iPhone 4G on Verizon Wireless will cannibalize Google Android smartphone sales across various carriers including AT&amp;T early on, while others disagreed.

  • BlackBerry OS knocks Apple iOS down a notch

    Apple's iPhone and Google's Android might seem to have all the momentum these days, but RIM's BlackBerry OS is the surprise winner in StatCounter's latest U.S. mobile OS Internet usage numbers.

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