iPhone Rules The Smartphone Market By Wide Margin [STUDY]

Android still the top mobile OS, while iPhone is the top smartphone.

In the smartphone wars it’s often very hard to tell who’s winning and who’s losing. Often it depends very much on what metric you use. If you go by total market share, Android is the clear winner. If you go by units sold in the last quarter, it’s the iPhone by a sizable margin.

Millennial Media’s Mobile Mix report adds another angle to the debate by gathering data on impressions from mobile ads. Millennial Media is a mobile advertising platform company that specializes in mobile apps and the mobile web. The data collected from mobile device impressions on their ads provides a pretty good clue as to which devices are the most popular. Their data reveals some interesting trends in the mobile market.

iPad’s Dictation Feature Coming To Mountain Lion, New Macs?

Mountain Lion beta shows hints of Dictation for Mac.

The theme of the last year’s release of OS X 10.7 Lion was “back to the Mac.” The update introduced several features to OS X that had proven useful and popular on the iOS platform. The upcoming release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion appears to be continuing that trend. Several major features of iOS – some of which were only just introduced with iOS 5 – are making the jump to OS X when Mountain Lion comes out sometime late in the summer. Features that are coming “back to the Mac” this time include the Notification Center, the Notes and Reminders apps, Twitter integration, and iMessage.

It may be, though, that there’s another iOS feature that will be making its way to the Mac with Mountain Lion, one that Apple hasn’t officially announced. According to 9to5Mac, the latest beta of Mountain Lion contains references to a keyboard shortcut that launches Dictation. Dication, in case you’re not familiar with it, is a feature that was introduced alongside Siri in the iPhone 4S, and made its way to the new iPad back in March. The way dictation works is pretty simple: if you’re in a field on your iPhone or iPad where you can type (e.g., the Messages app, Mail, Notes, or literally anywhere else) you simply tap the microphone and start talking.

Does iPad Impact Children’s Learning Curve?

Mountain Lion beta shows hints of Dictation for Mac.

The theme of the last year’s release of OS X 10.7 Lion was “back to the Mac.” The update introduced several features to OS X that had proven useful and popular on the iOS platform. The upcoming release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion appears to be continuing that trend. Several major features of iOS – some of which were only just introduced with iOS 5 – are making the jump to OS X when Mountain Lion comes out sometime late in the summer. Features that are coming “back to the Mac” this time include the Notification Center, the Notes and Reminders apps, Twitter integration, and iMessage.

It may be, though, that there’s another iOS feature that will be making its way to the Mac with Mountain Lion, one that Apple hasn’t officially announced. According to 9to5Mac, the latest beta of Mountain Lion contains references to a keyboard shortcut that launches Dictation. Dication, in case you’re not familiar with it, is a feature that was introduced alongside Siri in the iPhone 4S, and made its way to the new iPad back in March. The way dictation works is pretty simple: if you’re in a field on your iPhone or iPad where you can type (e.g., the Messages app, Mail, Notes, or literally anywhere else) you simply tap the microphone and start talking.

Apple iMove

Would you buy an Apple iCar?

An Apple board member has revealed that Steve Jobs had dreamed of creating an iCar before his sad demise in October last year after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer.Speaking at a Fast Company conference, Mickey Drexler stated that the car industry is a tragedy in America and Steve's dream was to design an iCar which would give the automotive industry the shake-up it required.Italy based auto designer Liviu Tudoran has taken cues from the Apple products and designed a concept car called iMove for the year 2020.

Steve Jobs Gets A Video Tribute At The Webby Awards

Tribute introduced by "Crazy Ones" narrator Richard Dreyfuss.

Last night’s 16th Annual Webby Awards saw a tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The tribute was introduced by the actors who starred in some of Apple’s most well-known advertisements. Justin Long and John Hodgman, better known as the Mac and PC of the “I’m a Mac” ads, spoke briefly before introducing Richard Dreyfuss, who provided the voice-over for the 1997 “Crazy Ones” ad.

Dreyfuss spoke briefly about Jobs and his impact on the world of technology – and the world in general. He noted that companies like Google and Facebook produce products and services that are widely used and extremely popular, but that the companies themselves are not trusted. Jobs, he said, was different; he “got it.” Though not particularly interested in the cult of personality, Jobs was able to produce hugely popular products while simultaneously maintaining an excellent public image for both himself and his company. Acceptance speeches at the Webbys are generally limited to five words, and Dreyfuss did his best to uphold this tradition by describing Jobs as the “exception that proves the rule.”