iPhone User? –  You’re in the minority. Smartphones powered by Android accounted for 68% of all smartphones shipped in Q2 2012, Apple iPhone came in at a in a distant second  with a 17% share of the global market. IDC analysts traced Android’s success in the market directly to South Korean personal electronics giant Samsung, which so far this year has made 44 per cent of all shipped [...]

Google has launched a new experiment that will combine Gmail search results with regular old Google search in its latest bid to deliver more personal responses more quickly. This may turn out to be a good idea as email also acts as a huge repository of information where we store contact information, phone numbers and other important bits of data. Google has been trying to adapt by building more personal [...]

Apple’s new advertisements –  a series of three ads focused on an Apple boy “Genius” helping Apple users in difficult situations received a tepid reception online and got panned universally have now disappeared from the Olympics broadcast on TV. Apple’s ad agency TBWA/Media/Arts Lab, claims that the ads were only ever intended to run for that brief period of time and [...]

Google’s Chrome browser popularity and usage is on the rise, according to the latest report from web analytics firm StatCounter, Chrome’s market share has gone up to 33.8 percent worldwide in July from 32.8 percent in June.   Microsoft Internet Explorer is close second at 32 percent, Mozilla’s Firefox which was among the first decent alternate to Internet Explorer is slipping [...]

Samsung is the top selling brand in Europe at the moment, a part of the credit goes  to aggressive pricing in a region hit by economic pressures and the  successful launch of the latest in Galaxy series Galaxy S3 in May according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, which bases its conclusions on more than 1 million of interviews with consumers every month. 45% of all smartphone sales were for Samsung phones [...]

Facebook yesterday launched a new service named  Facebook Stories at facebookstories.com, a Web site that, according to Facebook, is dedicated to sharing “some of the most extraordinary, quirky, and thought-provoking stories and ideas from people around the world who make up the social graph.” Facebook might be banking on this new service to boost its public opinion and stock price.   Facebook [...]

Facebook’s stock price plunged to a below US $20, almost half the price it debuted at in May. Facebook shares are down more than 4% today, falling to as low as $19.82. When Facebook first listed on May 18, its shares opened at just over US $42. Facebook valuation was touted to be US $100 billion-plus prior to the IPO. The latest figures put the company’s market cap at around US $43 billion which [...]

Facebook has a total of 83 million accounts on the website which are bogus. It accounts for 8.7% of the total users, of that 8.7%, 4.8% are duplicate accounts, 2.4% are user-misclassified accounts and 1.5% are “undesirable” accounts or simply put –  spam. This was revealed through Facebook’s form 10-Q filing with the US SEC for the quarterly period that ended last June 30, 2012. The [...]

“One million people have signed up for a new, modern email experience at Outlook.com. Thanks!” @Outlook tweeted. Microsoft’s new email service, Outlook.com, may become a success and provide redemption for Hotmail’s terrible reputation. The site adding 1 million users in about six hours is definitely good news for Microsoft. While launching Outlook.com Microsoft said that it [...]

Research consultancy Frank N. Magid Associates’s recently survey of 4,734 cell phone and smartphone owners revealed that 50% of people currently own an iPad, down significantly from 72% at last count. Apple shipped a robust 17.0 million iPads worldwide and maintained its strong market leadership with 68 percent share during the second quarter of 2012 The report says Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet [...]