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• iPhone, Android account for 82% of smartphones shipped

  Android and iPhone smartphones together made up 82% of all such devices shipped to retailers in the first quarter of 2012, IDC said Thursday.

• First look: Nokia Lumia 808 PureView and Lumia 610

  Nokia is on a roll with the Lumia phones this year and today the company announced the Lumia 808 PureView and the Lumia 610. The Lumia 808 is a camera-centric Symbian phone while the Lumia 610 is an inexpensive Windows 7 Phone.

• Nokia unveils 41-megapixel imaging sensor technology

  The most spectacular part of Nokia's presentation Sunday at Mobile World Congress was the unveiling of a new super imaging system, a sensor -- developed with Toshiba and other Nokia partners, coupled with Carl Zeiss optics -- that can capture 41 megapixels.

• Nokia to unveil 'Pure View' at Mobile World Congress

  Nokia has released its first teaser video leading up to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, hinting at a new camera-centric announcement.

• HP Readies Open-Source webOS Release

  Hewlett-Packard announced plans to release the code behind webOS this September under the Apache License 2.0.

• iOS opens gap over Android in mobile OS usage

  iOS grew its share of the global mobile operating system market to 24.2 percent in November, further stretching its advantage over Android.

• McAfee: Android is sole target of new mobile malware in Q3

  All new malware being written for mobile devices targets Android, according to a McAfee report on malware trends in Q3 2011.

• Apple iPhone passes BlackBerry in business use, survey finds

  Apple's iPhone has unseated the Research in Motion BlackBerry as the top smartphone used by mobile employees, according to an iPass survey of more than 2300 workers around the world.

• Gartner: Android market share tops 50% worldwide

  Android's well-documented fragmentation issues apparently aren't deterring consumers from snatching up Android phones.

• IBM targets managed security service at iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry smartphones

  IBM is offering a cloud-based managed service for mobile devices that will let IT managers exert management and security controls over devices based on Apple iOS, Google Android, the RIM BlackBerry, Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile.

• Lumia seen as dim light in U.S. versus iPhone, Android

  Nokia's new Windows Phone 7.5-based Lumia smartphones won't cause many problems for Android-based devices and the iPhone in the U.S., three analysts predicted Wednesday.

• Nokia and RIM, pioneers in wireless, seem to be on the ropes

  Tablets and smartphones have shaken up the computing world. Their impact may be most profound for Nokia and Research In Motion (RIM), two pioneers in wireless communications that are now scrambling to adjust to relative newcomers such as Apple and Google.

• Nokia to put free Microsoft apps on Symbian Belle smartphones

  Several of Microsoft's business productivity applications will be available for free on Nokia's latest Symbian Belle smartphones later this year, Nokia announced Thursday.

• Apple rules phone, tablet browsing market

  Mobile browsing has more than doubled in the last year and now accounts for over 6 per cent of all online activity, according to a US a Web statistics company said today.

• Nokia launches 3 mass-market smartphones

  Nokia has unveiled three mass-market smartphones, as the troubled handset maker struggles against top-end competitors and cheaper producers in a market it once ruled as the innovative technology bellwether.