A New Study Shows that Apple’s iOS holds a Staggering Stranglehold on Smartphone and Tablet App Profits (Patently Apple)
During Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s successful World Wide Developer Conference held earlier this month in San Francisco, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook pounded home statistics proving that iOS is an incredible profit generating machine for developers. To back that fact up even further, a new report published by ABI Research today projects that the mobile app market will be valued at $27 billion in 2013 and that Apple’s iOS is by far the leading OS in terms of profit. The stats claimed by ABI are staggering in stark contrast to reports that Android is the number one OS. In volume, Android may very well be the leading operating system in the world – but if you’re a developer, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s iOS is the only game in town that will deliver home the profits needed to get ahead in this business.
Broadcom XLP900 Scales Compute to 1.28 trillion Operations per Second (InternetNews.com)
The XLP900 multi-core CPU family is a MIPS-based solution that can scale up to 1.28 trillion operations per second of compute performance. The XLP900 has multiple target market verticals, including wireless infrastructure, storage, and security applications. Chris O’Reilly, senior director of Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM)’s Processors & Wireless Infrastructure Business, explained that each processor has up to 80 nxCPUs on it. O’Reilly explained that an nxCPU is about threading, with four or more nxCPUs per processor core. The top-end XLP900 chip has 20 cores on the chip.
Samsung scores another win versus Apple, this time in Japan (CNET)
Score one for Samsung in the company’s long-running patent battles with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). A Japanese high court upheld a lower court ruling that Samsung did not infringe on an Apple patent related to synchronizing music and video on Galaxy smartphones and tablets with servers, according to a report from Bloomberg. The Intellectual Property High Court in Tokyo backed an August decision by Tokyo District Court that Samsung’s mobile devices don’t infringe on Apple technology. Following that ruling, Apple filed paperwork in October to appeal the decision.
BlackBerry winds down BB10 pay-to-port rewards, payouts top $4M (Fiercemobilecontent)
Research In Motion Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) is bringing to a close a series of Port-A-Thon events designed to foster developer interest in its BlackBerry 10 operating system, halting payment rewards for developers who port their mobile applications to the platform. BlackBerry kicked off the Port-A-Thons in January, offering developers $100 for every app and game successfully ported to BlackBerry 10 from rival operating systems like Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s Android and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s iOS. The first virtual event generated 15,000 ports over a single weekend, and another yielded 19,000 more. In all, the BlackBerry World app store added more than 40,000 BB10 ports through the program, with developer payouts eclipsing $4 million.
‘Nothing is private anymore’: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on NSA scandal, ‘Jobs’ movie and Kanye West (New York Daily News)
While National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden remains on the run, he has a Silicon Valley legend in his corner. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) co-founder Steve Wozniak, who revolutionized technology with partner Steve Jobs, said the government’s hunt for the ex-NSA contractor ultimately exposes how freedom in the U.S. is “just a joke.” The Daily News spoke with the 62-year-old millionaire inventor Tuesday about the NSA scandal, as well as his take on the upcoming Jobs biopic and his newfound kinship with Kanye West.
