iCab Mobileis a web browser for your iOS device with a very extensive feature set. From German developerAlexander Clauss, iCab is one of the most powerful alternate browser apps available for iOS. One of iCab’s most notable features — one that was introduced onlyrecently, was the ability to download “modules” which are essentially “extended bookmarklets” or javascript code bundles that add more features to iCab. For example, iCab lets you download a module for something as trivial as increasing the font-size of a webpage to completing tasks like downloading YouTube videos....

The success of iPhone, iPad and Macbook products has helped Apple push ahead of Google to become the world’s most valuable brand, according to a new study by global brands agencyMillward Brown. Worth over $153 billion, almost half the company’s market capitalisation, Apple ended Google’s four year reign as the most valuable brand, having already beaten Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable technology company last year. Apple’s brand value grew 83% from the previous year, whereas Google’s fell by 2% to $111 billion....

Analyst reports are subjective, many take one performance indicator and base their reports around its associated statistics. Trying to introduce a new way to measure the performance of vendors in the smartphone market,Asymco has introduceda new composite index which bases the market share of company based on four factors; units, smartphones, value and profit. I’m sure it comes as no surprise that Apple is completely dominating the market. The chart (embedded below), charts Apple’s entry into the smartphone market, growing rapidly in terms of share since the introduction of its first iPhone in Q2 2007....

In the last quarter, demand for Apple’s iPhone has helped the company overtake Canadian smartphone giant RIM in terms of total mobile subscribers to become the fourth largest US mobile manufacturer and second most popular operating system, according to comScore. The digital research firmtallied 30,000 U.S mobile subscribersover a three month period ending April 2011, placing Samsung as the top handset manufacturer with 24.5% market share. Despite its position, the Korean smartphone vendor’s share slipped in the last quarter by 0....

On first glance, that’s a breathtakingly impressive number:$260 billion. Developers onApple’sApp Store earned a quarter of a trillion dollars since its launch in 2008. Consider just how many companies and independents that cash has breathed life into, it’s staggering. But that’s not the whole story. If App Store devs have made $260 billion since 2008, that means Apple has potentially made over a hundred billion for doing, well, comparatively very little....