BlackBerry still losing market share

Research in Motion Ltd.'s share of the smartphone market continued to fall in the final three months of 2011, accounting for just 16 percent of the market now, according to Reston-based comScore Inc.    comScore Inc. Latest from The Business Journals Facebook widens display ad lead over YahooSmall Business how-to guide — Social MediaOnline retail sales changing dynamic of holiday shopping Follow this company

Its latest report shows Apple Inc.    Apple Inc. Latest from The Business Journals Apple eyes June release for iPhone 5DBJ Tech Watch for Thursday: News of Facebook IPO, Apple, Arrow and moreApple request denied to ban Samsung sales in Germany Follow this company iPhone continued to gain market share, while smartphones running Google Inc.    Google Inc. Latest from The Business Journals More small businesses tracking their carbon footprintFirst Solar, NRG power plant named best PV projectFacebook's IPO filing, by the numbers Follow this company ’s Android operating system remained the dominant player in the Smartphone market.

As of December, Android held a 47.3 percent smartphone market share, up from 44.8 percent in September. The iPhone held a 29.6 percent share, up 2.2 percent from three months earlier. Research in Motion still ranks third, sliding 2.9 percent, from 18.9 percent in September to 16 percent in December.

Smartphones running Microsoft Corp.    Microsoft Corp. Latest from The Business Journals Amazon supports same-sex marriage, following other area companiesDBJ Tech Watch for Thursday: News of Facebook IPO, Apple, Arrow and moreMicrosoft exec: Business reasons should dictate move to the cloud Follow this company 's operating system slipped from 5.6 percent market share in September, to 4.7 percent in December.

Smartphone pioneer Palm Inc.    Palm Inc. Latest from The Business Journals AMR wants to ditch pensions, 13,000 jobsAdditional top webOS exec leaves HPAnother top WebOS exec leaves HP Follow this company has now dropped completely out of the top five, replaced by Symbian, which held a 1.4 percent market share.

All categories of smartphone use rose in the three month period, with texting up 3.2 percent, downloaded applications up 5.1 percent and use of browsers rising 4.6 percent.

ComScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) says 35.3 percent of smartphone users accessed social networking sites or blogs, up 3.8 percent from September, while game-playing was done by 31.4 percent of the mobile audience, up 2.6 percent.

As of December, 97.9 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones, representing 40 percent of all mobile subscribers.

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