iTunes has new challengers, Apple is looking to make Siri better and more

Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player take on iTunes Match. Who wins? The mobile music scene is not going to be easy to sort. We have solutions such as Spotify and Rdio, but iTunes is always the incumbent, while Amazon and Google are attempting to compete. Cloud storage makes sense, but what is the answer? Via [...]

Android distribution still sad, some Samsung 2013 rumors and more

Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Android Distribution Numbers Updated for December – Same Gingerbread Story, Just Another Month - The most recent Android Developers numbers show just over 33% of all Android devices at the 4.x level of operating system. 10% are still on Froyo (2.2.x) and over 50 still [...]

Google Play Revenues closing in on Appstores, iTunes 11 is out and more

Here is the top mobile news and stories of the day. Report: Google Play revenues closing in on Apple’s App Store, up 311 percent - while Apple has adopted the luxury car version of differentiation, Google is taking the Wal-Mart road. They are taking over tablet and smartphone markets, and Google Play revenues are beginning to [...]

Workable Nexus 4 LTE, Nexus 4 breaking and more

Here are the day’s top mobile news and stories. How To Enable 4G LTE On The Google Nexus 4 - TechCrunch has an excellent guide on how to enable LTE on the Nexus 4. However, this is only workable for Canadian and T-Mobile LTE networks. While many have bemoaned the lack of LTE in the Nexus [...]

Square processing over 10B in payments a year, Google Fiber is going live and more

Here are the top tech news and stories of the day. Square Now Processing $10B In Annual Payments; Added $2B Over Past Month (And That Doesn’t Include Starbucks) - Square is quickly becoming the revenue operator of choice to small businesses. Their simple pricing has small business abandoning direct relationships with credit card vendors (and taking [...]

EPA has dismal IT failures, Samsung S-Memo security lapse and more

Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DHS aims to hire 600 cybersecurity pros — if it can find them - DHS and other federal agencies are looking hard to find cybersecurity experts for hire, but cyber experts are saying DHS and other agencies haven’t figured out how to attract the talent. This is [...]