Tony Daltorio, The Investment U Research Team

Forget Microsoft-Apple or Microsoft-Google. A new rivalry is developing in the tech world.

Google ( ) and Apple ( ) are increasingly squaring off over lucrative markets like the mobile computing field. And there are many examples of the competition between the two for the mobile market heating up.

Exhibit A is the launch of Android-based mobile phones. The first of Google’s Android-based mobile phones, the G1 from T-Mobile, has sold over 1 million handsets in the United States in the first six months after its launch. This compares to 1.75 million of Apple’s iPhones sold by AT&T in the first six months after its launch.

Exhibit B is Apple recently blocking a Goggle application – Google Voice – from working on its iPhone. Google Voice allows users to rout calls to multiple numbers to one phone. The software would also allow iPhone users to make free calls and text messages over the Internet, threatening revenues for iPhone carriers such as AT&T.

The battle for the “smart” mobile phone market between these two tech titans should be quite interesting and provide a profitable opportunity for investors.

Four Ways to Profit from China’s Smartphone Market

The rivalry between the two companies in the mobile computing field is occurring on a worldwide battlefield.  And now this budding Apple-Google rivalry has spread to perhaps the most important mobile phone market in the world – China.

China is an incredible investment opportunity in many areas, including the mobile phone market.

It should be a titanic struggle in the smartphone market to win the hearts of China’s huge and rapidly growing middle class population. Here are the four main actors in this real-life drama that are poised to deliver profits to their investors as they gain share of the Chinese mobile phone market.