Microsoft says it has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses to PC makers and those upgrading as of early January. Microsoft officials said the company has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses to date. Tammi Reller, chief financial and chief marketing officer for Windows, shared the data at the JP Morgan Tech Forum at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today. That 60 million figure...

According to media reports, Asus and Acer have released statements that they will no longer make their netbook products in 2013. They were the last two manufacturers still churning out the devices, with everyone else who had made them (including Samsung, HP and Dell) having shifted to tablets. The debut of the iPad in 2010 and the rise of cheaper, lighter laptops...

The iPhone maker announced today that there have been 40 billion unique application downloads in its App Store since the marketplace launched in 2008. Apple's unique download tally excludes redownloads and updates. Of the 40 billion apps downloaded so far, nearly 20 billion were downloaded in 2012, the company said.

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 2011 was the first year that global consumer spending on media content, apps and services for mobile phones broke through the $100 billion barrier. According to the latest Global Mobile Media Forecast from Strategy Analytics, consumers are expected to increase this spend on mobile media* by a further 13.4 % from $121.8 billion in 2011 to $138.2 billion in 2012.

In contrast, advertiser spend on mobile media is expected to almost double (85.4%) from $6.3 billion to $...

The study, by research firm Strategy Analytics, reveals that advertisers are expected to more than double (108.2%) their in-app advertising spend, compared to a smaller proportion (50.6%) for display advertising.

The growth will be matched by a projected 16.6% rise year-on-year in consumer spending on mobile media, particularly apps.

Consumers are likely to spend £559.6m on apps, accounting for more than a quarter (25.8%) of total consumer...

With the iPhone and the iPad, Apple has established dominance in the world of both smartphones and tablet computers.

But that may not be enough for the world's biggest company, as it is reportedly set to launch a mid-sized 'iPad Mini' which would combine elements of both its blockbuster devices.

The new gadget could be ready as soon as autumn in a bid to compete with tech rivals Samsung and Microsoft.

Rumours of the device were first reported by...

 While most organizations recognize mobile devices are good for business, adoption of mobile-enabled processes is low. That's a key finding of new research from AIIM, the global community of information professionals.

The AIIM paper, titled "Process Revolution  Moving your business from paper to PCs to tablets," looks at the recent impetus behind the process revolution and how mobile devices and cloud computing are accelerating the move to paper-free processes and...

Apple reported that 50% of Fortune 100 companies were using the iPad by the end of the second quarter of 2010, and 80% by the fourth quarter. According to Comtex/Reportlinker, tablet sales to enterprises will increase from 13.7m units in 2011 to 96.4m units in 2016.

At the same time, Gartner forecasts that total media tablet sales were 64m in 2011 and will will reach 326.3m units in 2015 and by 2016 900m tablets will be in the hands of users. Many of these tablets will...

Apple users have downloaded 25 billion apps from the iTunes App Store, the company announced at the weekend.

To celebrate the landmark Apple gave a US$10,000 (S$12,600) iTunes gift card to the user who downloaded the app, Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. The app he downloaded was Where's My Water? Free.

Apple began the countdown to its 25-billionth app download last week and the milestone was reached over the weekend.

Mr Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of internet...

If HTML5 is the hot, fresh technology grab-bag for web applications, it pays for operating system makers to optimise their platforms to not only run HTML5-based apps, but run them with speed and efficiency. Apple’s iOS has grabbed that crown from Google’s Android platform, performing three times faster than Android devices in various speed and image movement tests. That’s the key finding from Spaceport.io, a social games technology concern incubated by YouWeb.

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