At last year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​Google went all out. They dedicated a huge area for the Android brand, company representatives handed out green Android pins and gave journalists and visitors ice cream sandwiches — named after the (then) latest operating system. However, at this year’s event, the Android swag and Google promoted representation was nowhere to be found.

For those following Google’s mobile marketing moves in the past two years, this doesn’t come as a surprise. Google has been trying for some time to focus Android the brand primarily on the application developers, gadget freaks and technology journalist demographics. It seems, to Google, that Android is similar to, “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.” The Android app store has been changed to Google Play and even Google itself omits the name of the Android OS from its hardware products (Nexus devices series) — what enables many hardware manufacturers producing Android phones to promote their own brands.

The battle of the year is almost drawing to a close. After three tough debates, two major political conventions and many many tours of the United States, the victor in the battle between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney will be crowned.

The winner of this battle is not determined by strength or size, but by the voters. Since most voters these days have a smartphone, we scoured our searches and crunched the numbers to see if we could find something interesting. This is what we came up with.

What do you think?

The battle of the year is almost drawing to a close. After three tough debates, two major political conventions and many many tours of the United States, the victor in the battle between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney will be crowned.
The winner of this battle is not determined by strength or size, but by the voters. Since most voters these days have a smartphone, we scoured our searches and crunched the numbers to see if we could find something interesting. This is what we came up with.
What do you think?
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In the never ending war between Android and iOS, each different operating system wins their own respective battles. Android had more handsets, but Apple has more apps. Who will win the battle for most social? Check out the infographic below.

In the never ending war between Android and iOS, each different operating system wins their own respective battles. Android had more handsets, but Apple has more apps. Who will win the battle for most social? Check out the infographic below.
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The latest story from the very high-profile Apple vs. Samsung patent battle is that Samsung is going to pay its debt in nickels.
As you probably all heard, Samsung was found guilty of violating various Apple’s patents by essentially making smartphones that are too similar to the iPhone. In addition, Samsung was also found to be in violation of several Apple software patents including elements of the smartphone user design and interface. Apple, for example, was the first company to market a touch-screen interface featuring the ability to zoom in and out by pinching your fingers. Apple also owns patents on certain aspects of screen scrolling behavior, including the way a scrolling screen shakes when pushed too far.
We do believe that Apple’s claims are ridiculous and they are acting like a cry baby when a sibling gets a similar toy. Unfortunately, they won (some would say that it is only thanks to home field advantage) and Samsung still has to pay.

Websites and blogs from all over the world have announced today the arrival of 30 trucks loaded with 5 cents coins to Apple’s California headquarters. Minutes after the trucks arrived, Tim Cook (Apple CEO) received a call from Kwon Oh-Hyun (Samsung CEO) explaining that this is the payment of their debt. Apparently the verdict document did not specify the payment method so Samsung could pretty much do whatever they want.

We broke down the numbers for you:
1 billion dollars equals 20 billion nickels. Each nickel weighs 5 grams which means that 20 billion nickels weigh 100 billion grams. 100 billion grams are 100 million kilos; this is 27% of how much the empire states building weighs! If we put the coins right next to each other we could almost circle the earth.

This data is what made …

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away….no wait, that was a different battle. The battle here on earth has been won. The smartphone is here and here to stay. Recent studies have shown that more and more people are choosing smartphones. The two major kinds being the Android and iOS systems.

They used to say that you could tell alot about a person based on what they kept in their wallet or purse. It would seem that nowadays, its all about the phone! Our friends at Hunch together with Column Five Media created an infographic which highlights the differences between those who use Android phones and those who are iPhone users. There results are fascinating! Do you agree?