And they say it’s hard to conquer the browser market. Despite Microsoft’s global domination, there are some places where Firefox is a vastly dominant browser. One of them is Antarctica; according to StatCounter’s recently added feature, GlobalStats, in 2009, only one browser was us...

Google wants Google Chrome’s market share to go up from those 1.15%, badly. They’re promoting Chrome quite aggresively lately; first through ads, and now also by bundling it with third-party software. The first such case, as noticed by Google Operating System, is RealPlayer, which offers...

Gmail is down, as you can see by a) trying it out yourself or b) listening to the tortured cries on Twitter. It’s funny and somewhat ironic to see people turning to Twitter when one of Google’s services is down: usually, it’s the other way around. Trying to open Gmail will currentl...

Having an application for a mobile platform is one thing; having it deeply integrated into the phone’s software is another. Knowing that, Skype has partnered with Nokia to integrate its software into the Finnish company’s handsets, starting with Nokia’s N series of smartphones. The...

The Consumerist has noticed a seemingly slight but very important (and disturbing) change in Facebook’s terms of service, regarding user-generated content. In short, all of the content you’ve ever uploaded on Facebook can be used, modified or even sublicensed by Facebook in every possibl...

The Wall Street Journal claims that Facebook is talking to Nokia, but also Palm and other mobile phone manufacturers, trying to get a deal to better integrate Facebook’s services into mobile phones. True, there’s a Facebook application for most smartphones out there today, but there are ...

When Microsoft bought a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook back in October 2007, it paid 240 million dollars for the preferred stock, which meant that the company was valued at roughly 15 billion dollars. A big discussion broke out over whether Facebook was really worth that much, or 15 billion was an un...

Lijit is a company behind a clever little search widget with a great idea behind it: you put it on your blog, and instead of letting your users search only for your blog posts, it enables them to search your social networks, bookmarks, and all other kinds of interesting data you’ve created. To...

Remember Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, with Dr. Larry Brilliant at its helm (I just love mentioning that name) and a hefty 1 billion to spend? Their latest initiative is called Google PowerMeter, a service that will let you track electricity usage in your house. Of course, what you...

We’ve all pretty much become accustomed to the notion that Google is this invincible internet giant which will always be there for us, but it’s not always true. A good example was this weekend’s fiasco, when (due to human error) Google’s search engine reported all web sites o...