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Google / web

Google lists the top 1000 websites in the world

Friday, May 28, 2010Friday, May 28, 2010 - by Lee J.

Google has given its mighty calculators a bit of a spin and released a list of the top 1,000 websites on the planet.

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Android / Apple / Blackberry / iPhone / mobiles

Android grabs #2 US smartphone, races passes Apple [update]

Monday, May 10, 2010Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Stats back from the first quarter of this year show Android accelerating past  past Apple for the OS for the number-two position in the US. The data comes from the …

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business / Google / software

Google buys Recorded Future… to see the future!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - by mike s

Google Ventures has just slapped a ton of wedge on the table to buy up Recorded Future, a company that uses technology to predict the future. Before you start making …

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Apple / computing / portable

Apple iPad: pointless survey uncovers the obvious; analyst makes arse of himself

Tuesday, Apr 6, 2010Tuesday, Apr 6, 2010 - by Pete Railton

You’d think someone as big as Piper Jaffray would have more sense than to waste time and money on pointless surveys to uncover the obvious. Over the weekend, the middle-market investment …

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Android / Blackberry / iPhone / mobiles / Palm / Windows Mobile

Android scores huge gains in the US, iPhone stalls

Tuesday, Apr 6, 2010Tuesday, Apr 6, 2010 - by mike s

Tech stat totter-uppers comScore have tapped out  their latest report on smartphone marketshare in the US, and it shows Google Android continuing to grow and gaining quickly on the iPhone. …

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Apple / open source / Windows

Windows 7 grows faster than Vista, passes Mac OS X total

Friday, Jan 22, 2010Friday, Jan 22, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 3 Comments.

After the sheer horror that was Vista, Microsoft looks to have got things back on track, with Windows 7’s strong 2009 holiday season sales being reflected in a growing OS …

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Apple / business / stuff

Twenty per cent of Brits think Steve Jobs is a football player

Sunday, Jan 17, 2010Sunday, Jan 17, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

The Apple brand may be near-ubiquitous on Britain’s streets thanks to the success of the iPhone, but it seems that the company’s head honcho remains something of a mystery to …

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gaming

Game console wars – gaming facts served up in a neat info-graphic

Saturday, Jan 16, 2010Sunday, Jan 17, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 2 Comments.

The least thing a hard-fragging gamer wants to look at is a page full of boring ol’ words, so thankfully the folks at OnlineEducation have employed a neat graphic to …

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stuff / web

Americans devour 34GB of data every day – study

Friday, Jan 8, 2010 - by mike s

A new study has declared that the average American scoops up a truly phenomenal amount of data, greedily gorging themselves on no less than 3.6 zettabytes every year. We’ve actually …

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web

A day in the life of the internet: a feast of stats in a pretty graphic

Thursday, Dec 10, 2009Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 - by Lee J.

Click on for an amazing infographic showing what a monstrous beast the Internet is, with 210 billion emails, 3 million Flickr images and 43 million gigabytes (on phones) sent on …

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computing / web

Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per day: study

Thursday, Dec 10, 2009Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 - by Pete Railton

A study has found that Americans spend around 11.8 hours a day consuming information in one way or another, and that collectively adds up to 34 gigabytes and 100,000 words …

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mobiles / Palm

AdMob: Palm web use up 20% in US

Monday, Nov 2, 2009Monday, Nov 2, 2009 - by Pete Railton

Palm seems to be making some progress on its long road to recovery, with web use from Palm owners in the US up by 22% from August to September 2009. …

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Android / Blackberry / business / iPhone / mobiles / Palm / Symbian / Windows Mobile

US smartphones: Blackberry stall, iPhone soars, Palm steadies

Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 - by mike s

A new survey of market shares for smartphones conducted last month showed that Blackberry (RIM) continues to be the numero uno choice among consumers in the US , with Apple’s …

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Google / web

Facebook accounts for 1 in every 7 UK page views

Friday, Oct 16, 2009 - by mike s

Facebook now accounts for a thumping 14.5 per cent of the UK’s entire web traffic, according to hot stats from analyst bods, Hitwise. This makes the social networking site by …

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mobiles

US: 4.1 billion SMS messages being sent daily

Thursday, Oct 8, 2009Thursday, Oct 8, 2009 - by mike s

The latest CTIA wireless industry survey has just been released, and it reveals the continuing runaway growth of text messaging in America. According to the survey, over 740 billion text …

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