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TrendForce has released their report for smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2016 and Samsung was dominant.  Out of 292 million phones shipped in the months of January through March of this year, 27.8% of those phones were Samsung devices.  That is up 5.7% over the fourth quarter of 2015 but the bigger news is the massive jump they took over second place Apple.  In Q4 of last year, they lead by just 1.2% in market share but in Q1 of 2016, that jumped to massive 13.4% increase in market share.

Good news this morning for owners of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge on the AT&T network.  There is a new update to Android Marshmallow available for each device that among other things brings you the April Security Update for Android.  The update has been released by the carrier and it will take a few days for the update to come to everyone on the network but when it does, you’ll have the latest update from Google along with a few other tweaks from AT&T themselves.

Google has released an important update to the Google News & Weather app for Android that brings support for AMP pages.  Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, are pages designed in a more lightweight fashion that provide you the content of a web page much faster than traditional HTML.  It is a project that Google has been working on for months and the adoption and integration of AMP has been progressing steadily over that time.  For the record, ClintonFitch.com is 100% AMP compliant.

In addition to the ability to find podcasts to play in Google Search, the ability to find TV listings of shows will soon be coming to it as well.  The announcement came from Daniel Alegre, President of Global Partnerships who gave a speech today at The National Association of Broadcasters Show where he outlined how the results will start to be shown in search results to help users find TV content more readily.