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85% of tablets shipped last year were Apple iPads

ABI Research has calculated that the Apple iPad accounted for 85% of media tablets shipped in 2010.

In second place was the Samsung Galaxy Tab with about 8% market share, followed by the Archos Internet Tablet range at 2%.

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iPhones track their users, say researchers

Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan have told the Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco that Apple's iPhone monitors and records its location as it's used.

It appears that the phone's latitude and longitude, along with the time, are stored in a file that can be synchronised with the user's computer.

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In this week's podcast: text donations, mobile payments and a purchasing partnership

This week's edition of The Fonecast takes its usual look at the latest mobile industry news headlines, covering charity SMS messages, a new purchasing partnership, m-commerce, NFC and international calls.

Plus, with our 250th podcast just a few weeks away, we turn the clock back to 2006... when we discussed the topic of 'voicemail hacking'.

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Podcast - 20th April 2011

This week's edition of The Fonecast covers text message donations, network partnerships, mobile payments and the latest innovations. There's also a look back at a feature from 2006 in which we discussed the still-current topic of voicemail hacking.

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Sony Ericsson quarterly figures show profit down but smartphone sales doing well

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications has published its results for the first quarter of 2011.

8.1 million devices were shipped in Q1 2011, compared with 10.5 million during the same quarter in 2010. However, the average selling price and gross margin were both up.

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