Industry research firm comScore this afternoon reports that Google’s (GOOG) share of “core” U.S. Web searches slipped ever so slightly, to 65.4%, in February from January’s 65.6%, while Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bing saw its share expand from 13.1% to 13.6%.

Yahoo’s (YHOO) shares of U.S. searches was unchanged at 16.1%, while IAC‘s (IAC) Ask Network properties saw share decline slightly to 3.2% from 3.4%.

AOL‘s (AOL) shares was unchanged at 1.7%.

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A buy-side manager this afternoon slipped a missive over the transom directing my attention to the item on MacDailyNews today that notes that Verizon Communications (VZ) has slashed its prices on numerous phones based on Google‘s (GOOG) Android operating system.

MacDaily’s opinion is, “Successful platforms do not need to have prices slashed and perpetual BOGOF [buy one, get one free] promotions.”

Ouch.

Previously: GOOG’s Android Tops U.S. Smartphone Sales; AAPL, RIMM Phones Lead, March 3rd, 2011.

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Research firm Nielsen today opines that in the November to January time frame, among “post-paid subscribers” in the U.S., phones running Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system are collectively pulling ahead of Apple’s (AAPL) and Research in Motion’s (RIMM) devices, with 29% share of smartphone sales in the U.S. by software platform.

Apple and RIM, however, are neck-and-neck and ahead of other hardware vendors, each with 27% share, well clear of the next closest smartphone competitor, Taiwan’s HTC, with just 12% share. Motorola Mobility’s (MMI) share was 10%, they note.

Phones running Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Mobile or Windows Phone 7 OS had 10% of the U.S. smartphone market in the same time frame.

Note that the Nielsen numbers, as they’re through January, would not reflect the roll-out of Apple’s iPhone 4 with Verizon Communications (VZ) in February.

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In a slap at Apple’s (AAPL) recently announced publisher subscription terms for its iPhone, iPad and iPod, Google (GOOG) today debuted a subscription payment system of its own, dubbed “One Pass,” that claims greater flexibility in the control publishers have over terms of subscriptions.
A Wall Street Journal article by Amir [...]

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Interesting piece today by Bloomberg’s Olga Kharif, who interviewed former Cisco System’s (CSCO) executive Mike Volpi (at one time seemingly in line to replace CEO John Chambers) about the rise of Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system.
Volpi, now a venture capitalist with Index Ventures, headquartered in Geneva, calls Android, “The next [...]

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Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi writes this afternoon that he has surveyed a dozen “leading” application developers writing for Apple’s (AAPL) iOS operating system and Google’s (GOOG) Android to answer clients’ questions as to why iOS seems to have more support than Android, to judge from the number of applications [...]

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Shares of Motorola Mobility (MMI) got a slight bounce today after Google (GOOG) showed a demo at its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters of the next version of its Android operating system, dubbed, “Honeycomb.” Motorola’s Xoom tablet was the hardware used to show the demo.
Motorola shares are up 82 cents, or [...]

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Bloomberg’s Brian Womack and Dina Bass this afternoon cite an email from Amit Singhal, listed as a “Fellow” with Google (GOOG), alleging that Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bing search engine is copying some of Google’s search results.
Singhal is quoted as writing, “We look forward to competing with genuinely new search algorithms out [...]

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The last few days have a seen a string of data points from various researchers trumpeting gains by Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system against the positions of Apple’s (AAPL) iOS.
The Wall Street Journal and other outlets today wrote up a report yesterday by Strategy Analytics from yesterday, which claims that [...]

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Touching on a report by Boy Genius’s Jonathan Geller published Wednesday, in which Geller wrote Research In Motion (RIMM) may be planning to allow its Playbook tablet computer to run programs built for Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system, Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek today writes that RIM has two [...]

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