The Android mobile operating system topped tech headlines on Thursday.
According to data from Canalys, Android smartphones made up 34 percent of global phone shipments during the fourth quarter, while iOS came in at 11 percent. Drilling down on smartphones, Android handsets made up 69 percent of the 216.5 million devices that shipped, Canalys said.
Meanwhile, Android also carried the lead in fourth quarter mobile ad impressions, according to Opera's latest State of Mobile Advertising report. Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III, which makes up 9 percent of Android traffic, helped the Google platform emerge late in 2012 as the top mobile phone OS in ad impression volume, beating iOS by about 2 percentage points.
According to stats released by Google, Android Jelly Bean is now running on 13.6 percent of Android devices. About 29 percent of Android devices are running Ice Cream Sandwich, but 45.6 percent still have Gingerbread.
Meanwhile, Boston father Paul Baier is paying his 14-year-old daughter $200 to quit Facebook until the summer. The "Facebook Deactivation Agreement," signed by both parties, ensures that the teen won't access Facebook until June 26. Baier will pay his daughter $50 in April and the remaining $150 in June. The arrangement, Baier said, was actually his daughter's idea.
In other news, Microsoft is back on the warpath with another attack against Google, this time taking aim at Gmail with the "Scroogled" campaign. A full website and a series of videos criticize how Gmail handles email data, including targeted ads that surface on Gmail based on your email conversations. The Scroogled site also provides links to news stories about Google an the issue of privacy, as well as infographics outlining the differences between Gmail and Microsoft's Outlook.com services.
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