Strategy Analytics has crunched most of the fourth quarter results announced this week (including Apple’s), and figures the iPhone maker is now the top smartphone manufacturer, but only by a sliver. In Q4 2011, Apple claimed 23.9% of global smartphone market share, and Samsung trailed only slightly, with 23.5%. That’s just counting Q4, too; for the whole year, Samsung beat out Apple by a single percentage point. @Yungjohnnybravo @TatWZA
Tech Talk News: The HP TouchPad Lives On!!!!!
We called the HP TouchPad “the tablet that would not die,” and we were right.  The HP TouchPad was resurrected again, today, at Woot with refurbished TouchPads going for more than the fire sale prices. Lo and behold the cheap tablets sold-out, once again!  The HPImmortaPad lives on. @Yungjohnnybravo @TatWZA
Tech Talk News: Tablet Ownership Doubles And Kindle Fire Usage Surges
The Kindle Fire and tablets are firing up app usage and doubling in ownership along with eReaders.The share of adults in the United States who own tablets or eReaders nearly doubled reported Pew Research. The main reason for this surge apparently is the introduction of the lower-priced Kindle Fire and Nook as well as the price drop of eReaders below $100. @Yungjohnnybravo @TatWZAÂ
Tech Talk News: RIM’s Heins ‘Here to Fight’ for BlackBerry Revival Against Apple
Thorsten Heins, five days into his job as chief executive officer, pledged to regain lost ground in the U.S. smartphone market and said he held talks with rivals eager to license its software. @Yungjohnnybravo @TatWZA
Tech Talk New: Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers
Apple’s Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee’s job, according to a court filing. @Yungjohnnbravo @TatWZA
Tech Talk News: Twitter To Start Censoring Tweets??
Yup, depending on your region. This is a powerful move when uprising starting in 2011 from the exchange of ideas on Facebook and Twitter but Gil Scott-Heron said “The revolution will not be televised” – and it wont be tweeted either it appears. Hit the jump for the blog from Twitter on censorship. Follow @TatWza +TatWZA X @ShottaDru
