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Windows 7 surpasses 50 percent global OS market share
- Recent data from analytics company StatCounter shows that Windows 7 has obtained more than half of the worldwide operating system market for the first time. The OS surpassed Windows XP as the most popular choice globally in October 2011 but…
Windows Phone claims 7% market share in China in just two months
- Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone in China back in March and only two months later, the company has captured 7 percent of the market share in the region. This is a significant number as the iPhone only has a 6…
Samsung tops mobile sales, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry plummet
- According to figures by research firm Gartner, Samsung once again holds the top spot when it comes to global sales of mobile phones. The Korean-based company managed to bump Nokia from its perch after sales from the former king of…
Chrome, IE market share creeps upward, Firefox losing ground
- According to data from analytics firm Net Applications, Internet Explorer may be making a slow come back after years of being on the decline. Although IE's market share only ticked upward from 53.83 to 54.09 percent, this is compounded by…
Apple rakes in 75% of all mobile phone profits in Q4 2011
- Apple may be trailing Nokia and Samsung in global mobile phone market share, but when it comes to the all-important bottom line the company is crushing the competition. Analyst Horace Dediu of Asymco has put together a series of graphics…
Google now activating 700,000 Android devices per day
- Google's vice president of mobile Andy Rubin has revealed that device activations for Android are now at a whopping 700,000 per day. That's a 40% increase from the 500,000 Android devices per day being activated back in June, and a…
Chrome overtakes Firefox market share for the first time
- StatCounter and Net Applications have just released their latest report on global web browser usage and, at least according to the former, Google's three-year-old Chrome browser has already surpassed Firefox in terms of usage. Net Applications still has Firefox ahead…
Nielsen: Android retains smartphone OS lead in U.S.
- Android held on to its position as the most widely used smartphone OS in the United States over the past three months, but actually decreased its share by 0.2 percentage points between August and October according to new data from…
Apple hits highest market share in 15 years
- The number of Apple enthusiasts continues to creep upward as Apple bumps past the five percent mark to 5.3 percent, representing a major psychological milestone for the Cupertino-based company. This is up from 4.4% about a year ago.
Samsung overtakes Apple as world's top smartphone maker
- Samsung leaped past Apple as the world's top smartphone maker in the July-September quarter amid a widening legal battle between the two companies. This is according to research firm Strategy Analytics, which said the industry has seen year-on-year growth of…
iSuppli: Intel grows lead in CPU revenue market share
- Market research firm iSuppli released its latest report on the state of the microprocessor market today, which show Intel has grown its already considerable lead by 1.1 percentage points over the last year while AMD saw its share fall by…
JPR: Discrete GPU shipments down 15.2%, Nvidia still leads
- The second quarter of the year saw some 16.1 million discrete graphics cards shipped worldwide, according to the latest numbers from Jon Peddie Research. This figure represents a 15.2% drop from the 19.03 million recorded in the previous quarter, which…
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