Newzoo has revealed key insights into mobile gaming in the US market as part of a fresh study of markets in Germany, France, the UK and US. Among findings about the American market is that the number of mobile gamers in the US has grown from 75 million to 101 million, of which 69% plays [...]

RESTON, Va., April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — comScore, Inc. (SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the next generation of its  Device Essentials™ service, offering new insight into global digital device usage. Based on comScore’s global Unified Digital Measurement (UDM) data, which utilizes census-level information from tagged web page content, Device Essentials [...]

Leapfrog’s LeapPad is the tablet and content ecosystem of choice for the preschool set, but CEO John Barbour is expecting an attack from the Android army. The children’s’ learning company reported better-than-expected first quarter results courtesy of its LeapPad, a durable tablet aimed at preschoolers. The company reported a first quarter net loss of $9.46 [...]

Kindle Fire market share has tailed off considerably, according to IDC. (Credit: Amazon) The tablet market showed some weakness during the first quarter, but Apple’s iPad remained strong, according to new research from IDC. During the first quarter of 2012, total worldwide tablet shipments hit 17.4 million, 1.2 million units less than the research firm [...]

Do you “dream big science?” NASA does, and to prove it, the space agency has released Pursuit of Light, its latest video. The six-minute movie shows a number of scientific clips, including time-lapse shots of Earth from orbit, video showing the motion … Continue … Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/android-samsung-hold-off-apple-us-mobile-space-094846091.html

Small international startup launches AutoUpdateAPK — automatic update deployment service for non-Market Android applications. The service is intended for small developers as well as for enterprise customers. The applications are kept in the cloud servers and can be simultaneously served to hundreds of Android devices. Fukuoka, JP (PRWEB) May 01, 2012 A large company with [...]

Android tablets: Kindle Fire accounted for more than half of all sales by February. But can Amazon’s Android tablets take on Apple’s iPad?  By David Sarno, Los Angeles Times (MCT) / April 30, 2012 In this 2011 file photo, the Kindle Fire is displayed at a news conference in New York. Last year, Amazon.com Inc. figured [...]

What does it say about the market for tablet computers that the best-selling tab running Android is not really a tablet. It’s an e-reader that was invented to help sell the public on e-books, whose components don’t have to be manufactured, printed or mailed but retail for close to the same price, vastly increasing profits [...]

AdVoice: Analyst: Android has 35% of U.S. tablet market, will overtake iPad [Chart] Eric Lai AdVoice Amazon Launches In-App Purchasing For Kindle Fire Apps Eric Savitz Forbes Staff The bewildering array of Android hardware used to mean that no single device had the power to grab a significant market share of the Android tablet market. [...]

Tablet Competition Heats Up: Kindle Fire Captures more than Half of Android Tablet Market 10″ Tablets Have 39 Percent Higher Content Consumption Rate than 7″ Tablets comScore Device Essentials™ Introduces Unique Device and Local Market Reporting to Cross-Device Digital Traffic Measurement RESTON, VA, April 26, 2012 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring [...]