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With the Facebook IPO carnival underway, others are providing some of their own stats and numbers, if the official ones don't suffice. Hitwise has round up some impressive numbers about the social network. They're not overly impressive, but there's not much that a company that's been so closely fo... |
3 February 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been losing market share lately, mainly due to the transition from the Symbian OS to Windows Phone, but it appears that it still managed to retain the top position on the mobile market.
The latest data coming from IDC shows that Nokia remained the top handset vendor in the worl... |
2 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Strategy Analytics has issued the results of its latest research on global smartphone shipments, naming Apple the top dog of smartphone vendors in Q4 2011.
Handset shipments grew 54 percent annually to reach a record 155 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, said the firm. “Apple reclaimed top position ... |
27 January 2012
09:33 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system is set to become the second best mobile platform in the world in the next three years, a recent report from iSuppli suggests.
The newly launched Nokia Lumia 900 is the first handset in a series that will re-establish the platform as a market leader, the firm notes. ... |
20 January 2012
09:43 GMT |
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As part of its announcement regarding the financial results for the second quarter of the financial year 2012, Microsoft unveiled that it managed to sell over 525 million Windows 7 licenses to date.
Windows 7 is the fastest selling client from Microsoft, but it is not yet the widest spread. Windows XP still leads ... |
20 January 2012
06:01 GMT |
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During the past 12 months, Windows 7 has gained significant share on the PC market, mostly at the expense of Windows XP. However, the older operating system remained the leading platform in 2011 too.
In December 2011, Windows XP accounted for 46.52 percent of the market, while Windows 7 was present on 36.99 percent... |
3 January 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), the latest major release of Microsoft’s web browser, has managed to gain a lot of market share on computers running under Windows 7.
Launched in March last year, the browser managed to become the second most used Internet navigation tool on Windows 7, second only to Internet Explor... |
3 January 2012
03:36 GMT |
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Windows phone was off for a slow start, and the platform’s performance on the market remains unimpressive still, though it appears that it might not be too long before things will change.
A recent report from Digitimes Research suggests that the platform will manage to gain 6.2 percent of the market during t... |
27 December 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Battlefield 3 might have not managed to beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in terms of sales but the game has nonetheless been a hit for publisher Electronic Arts and, according to one leading executive, a good thing for the video game industry.Speaking to IndustryGamers as part of a bigger interview Peter Moore, wh... |
8 December 2011
21:41 GMT |
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Google’s Android operating system is gaining more and more market share in the United States, and the latest data from comScore shows nothing different.
During the three-month period ending October 2011, Google’s mobile operating system has been loaded on 46.3 percent of smartphones, the research firm ... |
5 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Amazon had great success with its recently released Kindle Fire 7-inch tablet, but according to an analyst this is only the beginning as in 2012 the outfit could sell as many as 12 million of these $199 (147.7 EUR) devices. If the 12 million unit estimate will end up being right this could bring Amazon a large chunk ... |
23 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system is topping the charts in the UK, accounting for half of all smartphones sold in the country, recent data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows. According to data coming from the research firm, the mobile operating system accounts for 49.9 percent of smartphone sales in the countr... |
2 November 2011
20:01 GMT |
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According to the latest report from Nielsen, 56 percent of all users who purchased a smartphone in the past three months chose an Android device. This shows an impressive growth when compared to the previous report from Nielsen, which showed that Android represented the OS of choice for only 43 percent of smartphone... |
27 September 2011
15:11 GMT |
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During July, the mobile operating system market was dominated by Google's Android platform, a recent report from Millennial Media reads. Apparently, the platform continued to increase its market share when it came to usage on the company's network and remained the leading platform on their network for the ... |
24 August 2011
11:26 GMT |
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Nokia might have lost the battle for supremacy on the smartphone market, but they did not lose the war on the mobile phone area, that's for sure.
At 24.5 percent market share, Nokia is still in front of Samsung, at least this is what the Q2 2011 numbers from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwid... |
30 July 2011
05:37 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, we learned that Nokia has lost the top position on the smartphone market, when its smartphone sales for the second quarter of the year fell behind Apple's, but it seems that the decline was worse than originally expected.
South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung managed to sell more smartpho... |
29 July 2011
04:16 GMT |
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Currently, Google's Android operating system seems to have won the smartphone platform battle in the United States, at least this is what the latest data from Nielsen shows.
The research firm shows that the Google Android operating system ended the second quarter of the ongoing year with 39 percent share of... |
28 July 2011
13:41 GMT |
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With sales of smartphones increasing fast, the market is expected to reach new heights in the coming years. By the end of 2016, sales will surpass 1 billion units, a recent report from IMS Research, leading independent provider of market research and consultancy to the global electronics industry, shows.
The com... |
27 July 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Google's mobile operating system, Android, managed to score an impressive growth on the UK market since last year, a recent report from comScore shows.
The research firm notes that Android has secured no less than 26.7 percent market share in the UK back in May 2011, topping Symbian and nearing the first pos... |
23 July 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Windows 7’s market share has more than doubled in the past year alone, indicating that the operating system’s strong uptake momentum has not slowed down even a bit. According to statistics from Internet metrics company Net Applications, Windows 7’s usage share was measured at 27.13% at the end of J... |
1 July 2011
03:21 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system is currently the leading mobile platform on the UK smartphone market, some of the latest reports on the matter show. The mobile OS was present on 44.9 percent of all smartphones on the UK market in the three months ending May 15 2011, a recent report from research firm Kantar W... |
14 June 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia is expected to hit the third place on the smartphone market during this quarter, the latest analyst reports suggest.
According to Nomura Research, Nokia is about to lose the crown on the smartphone market, after climbing to the top on this segment in 1996.
The lea... |
13 June 2011
18:11 GMT |
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The Facebook giant keeps on growing, it's getting very close to reaching the 700 million users mark, even though, officially, it's still at 500 million. But the growth rate is nowhere near what it was a couple of years ago and, even more worryingly for the site, it's starting to lose users in its earli... |
13 June 2011
04:43 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system is currently the leading mobile platform on the United States market, and its share is continuously growing, a recent report from comScore, Inc. shows. The latest data released from the comScore MobiLens service, shows that Android ranked first among US mobile subscribers in th... |
7 June 2011
16:11 GMT |
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Nokia is going from bad to worse, at least this is what the latest actions the company took show, such as the fact that it just lowered its forecast for the second quarter of the ongoing year, or that it started closing down some of its online services.Nokia said on Tuesday that it can no longer offer a financial fo... |
1 June 2011
13:41 GMT |
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During the first quarter of the ongoing year, the total number of devices sold on the market with Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform on board reached 1.6 million units, a recent report from Gartner reads. The research firm notes that this result would show in a way that the mobile phones launched on shelves w... |
19 May 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system is expected to become the leading mobile operating system during the ongoing year, accounting for no less than 38.5 percent of all smartphones on the market in 2011, up from only 22.7 percent it enjoyed last year, a recent report from Gartner shows.According to the research fir... |
7 April 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system is expected to account for around 45 percent of the total smartphone shipments in 2016, becoming the leading mobile operating system in the world. At the same time, the company notes that Apple’s iOS is expected to be placed on the second position on the market at that ti... |
1 April 2011
12:00 GMT |
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The global smartphone market is expected to increase significantly during the next few years, while undergoing a series of changes determined by the recent partnership between Nokia and Microsoft. According to a recent report from Ovum, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system is expected to become the thir... |
30 March 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Google's Android operating system has finally managed to win the battle against Apple's iOS and RIM's BlackBerry platforms on the United States smartphone market, recent data from The Nielsen Company shows.With 29 percent market share on the US smartphone OS area, Android is the king of the hill at th... |
4 March 2011
14:38 GMT |
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Nintendo, the creator of the Wii and DS gaming devices and of franchises featuring characters like Mario, Zelda and Kirby, has announced that 2010 has marked a decline in the overall amount of games it has sold on all major market.
In the home market of Japan, the combined software sales for the Wii and the DS sto... |
1 February 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7, the latest mobile operating system flavor that Redmond-based software giant Microsoft brought to the market in 2010, is expected to enjoy steady growth during the ongoing year and beyond, though it would require for some key features to be included into the mix to guarantee its success.In 2011, Micr... |
4 January 2011
05:10 GMT |
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The third quarter of the ongoing year ended several weeks ago, and various mobile phone makers started to announce their performance for the three months period. The entire smartphone market went up by 78 percent, a recent report from Strategy Analytics notes, adding that Nokia remained the market leader for a quart... |
22 October 2010
03:33 GMT |
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One year after launch, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) has an install base of over 31 million, which is good for a start, but still three or four times less than that of other free AV products.The 31 million number was revealed yesterday on the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) blog in a post celebrating... |
1 October 2010
02:05 GMT |
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The fastest selling operating system in history is now being used by almost twice as many customers than its predecessor. According to statistics share by Janco, Windows 7 has grown to a massive 17.39% of the OS market. Meanwhile, the market share of Windows Vista has been falling with no signs of stopping. The succe... |
16 August 2010
10:26 GMT |
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Facebook’s growth seems unstoppable, or at least it seemed, as a new report by analytics company Hitwise shows that even the giant social network can reach a ceiling. Facebook was the second most visited website in the UK in July and the first in terms of page views. Yet, its share of the total number of page v... |
9 August 2010
11:40 GMT |
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The smartphone market went up by 50 percent during the second quarter of the ongoing year, a recent report from IDC shows. A total number of 63 million units in Q2 2010, up from 41.9 million units, have been sold during the same time frame a year ago. The International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobi... |
6 August 2010
06:24 GMT |
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According to the Symbian Foundation, the independent, non-profit organization aimed at bringing innovation to the mobile space, it managed to ship a number of around 300,000 mobile phones each day during the second quarter of the ongoing year. A total number of 27 million devices were moved in the time frame, far mo... |
6 August 2010
03:40 GMT |
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The Android mobile operating system managed to take the crown from RIM's BlackBerry OS on the US smartphone market. According to NPD’s latest wireless market research, Google's Android operating system was present on 33 percent of all smartphones sold in the United States market during the second qua... |
5 August 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Google's Android mobile operating system is enjoying increasing traction on the market, the latest figures the Internet giant unveiled to the world show. It seems that the company is currently activating a number of 200,000 Android-based devices each day, Google chief Eric Schmidt said at the Techonomy conferen... |
5 August 2010
04:33 GMT |
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While being no match for Windows XP, still, Windows 7 did manage to swallow its predecessor over the past month, in terms of market share. Windows Vista is no longer the second most used operating system worldwide as of the end of July 2010. According to statistics released by Net Applications, Windows 7 is now runne... |
2 August 2010
06:53 GMT |
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With the Beta for Internet Explorer 9 due in September 2010, the tide has turned for Internet Explorer. In just the past two months alone, the overall market share of IE has grown by approximately 1%, in the detriment of rivals Firefox and Chrome, according to statistics shared by Internet metrics company Net Applica... |
2 August 2010
03:41 GMT |
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The latest smartphone survey from ChangeWave, which is based on the response received from 4,028 consumers, shows that HTC Corporation and Apple are growing on the mobile market, while Motorola and RIM are losing market share. According to the survey, the second half of the ongoing year should bring a series of inte... |
15 July 2010
14:11 GMT |
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Currently, the smartphone operating system market is dominated by the Symbian platform, a name that stayed in the lead for quite some time now. Greatly helped by Nokia, as well as by other mobile phone vendors, and by the lack of a powerful competitor, the Symbian OS took the lead on the market, though it seems that... |
13 July 2010
14:51 GMT |
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ComScore, Inc, leading company in digital world, has just released a new report that shows key trends in the mobile market in the US in the three months period ended May 2010, with data being compared to the previous three months. The report was aimed at ranking the leading mobile OEMs and smartphone platforms in th... |
9 July 2010
16:11 GMT |
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On Monday, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced the release of new handsets, included in the company's Optimus series. According to LG, the new LG Optimus Series should prove a lineup of innovative devices the pack the latest advancements in the mobile space, while being meant to highlight L... |
6 July 2010
03:02 GMT |
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iPhone 4, the latest version of Apple's highly-popular mobile device, has just been put on sale in various markets around Europe, with impressive pre-order levels, and with great expectations for the first day of availability. The launch of iPhone 4 builds on the success its predecessors enjoyed and, since ther... |
24 June 2010
07:09 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just issued a press-release announcing the lowering of its forecast for the second quarter of the ongoing year. According to the company, a series of factors negatively impacted its business in the quarter, including a competitive environment, which was felt mainly at the high-en... |
17 June 2010
04:18 GMT |
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According to a new report from comScore, Inc., covering the three-month period ending April 2010, the leading mobile phone maker in the US market was Samsung, which accounted for 22.1 percent of the market. Moreover, the report, which was aimed at the mobile subscribers market, shows that Verizon Wireless was the le... |
7 June 2010
02:55 GMT |
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The smartphone segment of the market is registering increasing growth, and companies focused mainly on this area are reportedly gaining a bigger share on the global mobile phone market. According to a recent report from iSuppli, RIM and Apple managed to rise up to the fifth and sixth place on the worldwide market (f... |
18 May 2010
12:31 GMT |
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