A new report from research firmStrategy Analyticsindicates that from over 15 million tablet shipments in the second quarter of 2011, Apple still dominates the market with a 61% share but has seen Android tablets eat into its market share over the past year. According to Strategy Analytics’ latest figures, Apple’s market share slipped from 94% a year previous, with Android tablets now accounting for 30.1% of tablet shipments in the second quarter....

Apple has seemingly learned its lesson after the wholeAntennagatedebacle. The company just announced some bold internal updates to the iPhone, with the release ofthe iPhone 4S(full details). The iPhone 4S has a two antennas that will supposedly offer a better voice-calling experience: “We’ve done something technically amazing. It can now intelligently switch between the antennas for even better call quality” said Apple’s Phil Schiller. The new iPhone will be a so-called “world phone,” meaning it will run on both the GSM and CDMA family of wireless network standards....

Sprint users rejoice, the Apple iPhone will now officially be available on your carrier. Apple announced that the iPhone would be coming to the nation’s third largest carrier today at its “Let’s Talk iPhone” event at Apple HQ in Cupertino. The carrier will be getting the iPhone 4S for the following prices: Pre-orders begin October 7th for the iPhone 4S, for an October 14th release, but currently Apple’s home page says “Sprint coming soon” so we’re not sure when exactly it will be available....

Demand for Apple’s new smartphone was expected to be huge, but the announcement that Apple had clocked up overone million preorder salesfor the new iPhone 4S in just 24 hours, almost doubling preorder figures of the iPhone 4 fifteen months previous, surprised many with just how many orders the Cupertino-based company was able to take in such a short period of time. Allowing customers in the U.S, Canada, Australia, the UK, France and Germany to preorder the device on October 7, with mobile operators in the respective countries also taking orders for the device on the same day, Apple offered the iPhone 4S unlocked in every region except the U....

Reports suggesting that Apple would be introducing its new iPhone 5 smartphone in September could have been scuppered after a report fromAllThingsD’s John Paczkowski suggestedthe device will be unveiled one month later. Previous reports indicated that US mobile operator AT&T had blocked employee holiday requests scheduled over the last two weeks of September, suggesting the launch of the new iPhone had been pencilled in for that period. AllThingsD’s source said that those believing the holiday blackout was in preparation for the launch were misinformed:...