Pledge your smartphone loyalty to whatever brand you wish, but the fact of the matter remains that more and more people are leaving the Finnish juggernaut Nokia in favor of devices from RIM and Apple. During Q4 2008, Nokia’s overall market share fell from 50.9 percent to 40.8 percent and smart...

I usually don’t do a huge amount of reading about Linux. That is, not concerning its development. I am usually concerned with solving problems, with the specific distribution I am working with, at the time. Since the weekend, I have been reading a few articles about Jaunty Jackelope, the upcom...

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Mozilla, Browsers, Humor I can just imagine the scene earlier this decade: some Microsoft bigwig sitting at an oversized, lacquered hardwood table snidely remarking, "it'll be a cold day in Hell before we lose the browser war to Mozilla." Interestingly enough, on Earth's ...

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...

My Amazon habit goes way back. I joined Amazon Prime as soon as they started the program. If some villain wanted to take away my Amazon he would have to pry my mouse from cold dead hands Maybe I’m being overly dramatic but you get the point. I no longer think about the selection, convenience, serv...

The NYT reports that Google has recently disclosed in an SEC filing that it had 1 million advertisers as of 2007.  Some analysts suggest that Google’s growing scale will lead to higher ad prices: Ben Schachter, an analyst with UBS, said he expects the current number is likely to be between 1....

Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone hasn’t supplanted Research In Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry as the gold standard of mobile business tools, but give it another year or so and it just might. According to new research from ChangeWave, the iPhone has steadily increased its market share, growing fro...

It took the team over at Google only 100 days to bring Google Chrome from the initial release day to the version 1.0. The irony is that Chrome seems to be one of the most highly-criticized products ever made by Google - criticized for its lack of stability and frequent crashes. Yet it is this produc...

Check out this graph by Hitwise based on a sample of 10 million U.S. based Internet users. In 12 months Google gained 7,21% of search traffic. The other search engines lost a combined (Yahoo -3,91%, MSN -2,02%, Ask -1,23%) 7,16% which means that Google is growing faster than other search engines...

Filed under: Industry, Displays, Internet For now, the HDTV market is doing just fine as-is. We've still got stragglers seeing the light on a daily basis, and the looming DTV transition is probably pushing sales somewhat as well. However, according to Calvin Hsieh, DisplaySearch's Director of Resear...