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T-Mobile G2 vs iPhone 4 vs Droid X

Apple Browsing Share Tops Linux, Android Steals Share Everywhere

More people browsed the Internet last month with a device running Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, than used Linux to do so. That's a first for Apple, according to NetMarketShare, a firm that produces metrics on the market share of browsers, operating systems and search engines. However, the market figures do represent a new way that NetMarketshare has adopted to calculate market share for Apple. "In order to more accurately describe usage share for Apple devices, the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad are now being grouped under their common operating system iOS," the firm explained. "When these devices are combined, they have over one percent of global browsing share, which is now higher than Linux," it said. Information at the research firm's website shows iOS steadily gaining browser market share since October 2009, when its share was 0.44 percent, to last month, when its share was 1.13 percent. Linux's share, on the other hand, reached its lowest...

Apple launches new iPod Touch, iPod Nano, Shuffle

Apple yesterday launched a whole range of new iPod Touch with a front and rear-facing camera, smaller iPod Nano 6G with multitouch screen, and new iPod Shuffles. In an Apple musi-centric event, Steve Jobs called it the "biggest change in the iPod lineup ever," when the company launched new iPods which will hit stores next week in the U.S. and are available for preorder. The new iPod Touch 4G The new Apple iPod Touch is slimmer than previous iPod Touch -- it measures 4.4-by-2.3-by-0.28 inches and weighs 102 gm. Chief among the new iPod Touch's features are new front and rear-facing cameras to the latest iPod touch. The new iPod Touch's camera can capture still images and HD 720p videos, and has the iPhone 4G's 1-GHz A4 processor and retina display with an image density of 326 pixels-per-inch, and a 3-axis gyroscope for improved gameplay