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The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games. [...]

First quarter market share ranking of top mobile phone vendors according to Strategy Analytics: Nokia, 107.8 million Samsung, 64.3 LG, 27.1 RIM, 10.6 Sony Ericsson, 10.5 Apple 8.75 Motorola, 8.5 These numbers are shipments or sell-in, which may differ from sell-through or end-user purchases. RIM breaks into top 5 in surging phone market | Reuters.

Will webOS replace Windows on all of your smartphones? Microsoft will continue and will always be a huge strategic partner for Hewlett-Packard. Our focus is to create choice for customers around those products and services that will allow them to connect to the information they need as quickly and as safely as they can. via [...]

Strategy Analytics said 54 million smartphones were shipped in the quarter, comprising 18 percent of the total handset market. Apple’s share reached 16.4%, up from 10.6% a year ago while maintaining an ASP of €445. Nokia raised its share to 40% from 38.2% on an ASP of €155. RIM slipped to 19.7% from 20.3%. via [...]

However, it has lost its position as the largest U.S. maker of phones to Apple Inc. Motorola sold a total of 8.5 million phones in the quarter, while Apple sold 8.8 million iPhones. Four years ago, when the Razr was still popular, Motorola sold 46.1 million phones in the first quarter. via Motorola posts profit, [...]

“Officials at the WES 2010 keynote said that RIM has redesigned all of the core applications within the BlackBerry operating system. It also revealed that there are 41 million BlackBerry users, and 90 million BlackBerrys have been sold to date.” Apple already announced that they see 100 million iPhone OS devices sold by this summer. [...]

“During a conference call about HP’s acquisition of Palm Wednesday, Todd Bradley, executive VP of HP’s Personal Systems Group, said that there are “a lot of opportunities” with the purchase. Namely, he said, HP could use the WebOS mobile operating system as a touchscreen interface for new hardware such as a tablet or netbook. Palm [...]

IFPI said that global sales of music dropped 7.2% to $17 billion for all of 2009. Late last week, Apple reported $13.5 billion in revenue for the first quarter of the year. Why does anybody still care about music as a business?

While Apple’s patent lawsuit against HTC remains ongoing, the Taiwanese handset maker has reached a licensing agreement with Microsoft to avoid another lawsuit over its Android-powered handsets. AppleInsider | Microsoft believes Android infringes on patents, HTC strikes deal Who says Android is “free”?

Buried in the news that HP is buying Palm is an updated lower guidance for the fourth quarter, otherwise known as a warning. The Company expects revenues for its fourth fiscal quarter to be in the range of approximately $90 million to $100 million on a GAAP (1) and a non-GAAP basis. Revenues for the [...]