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IE No Longer No. 1 in Europe, Losing Ground to Chrome
Internet Explorer has been steadily losing ground to its competitors for quite some time now, and today Microsoft’s default Windows browser was overtaken by Firefox in the European front. According to analytics company StatCounter, Firefox share of the European market this December was 38.11%, compared to IE’s 37.52%. “It’s the first time that IE has ...
Social Location Gaming Get Real: SCVNGR Raises $15M
Social location-based game SCVNGR announced in a blog post it has raised $15M in its third round of funding. Barry Maloney from Balderton Capital led the round which also involved Google Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. SCVNGR had raised a total of $20 million to date, and the Cambridge, Massachusetts- based company’s apps attracted 1 ...
Samsung Reaches the 10 Million Galaxy S Units Sold Mark
According to an e-mail statement by Samsung, the company sold a record number of 10 million units of its Android-running Galaxy S since its debut in June. A staggering 61 million units of the company’s official best seller and NFC technology-equipped smartphones are expected to be shipped in 2011. Introducing the Galaxy, which uses Google Inc.’s Android software, ...
Angry Birds: Spreading Wings Over PlayStation
According to USA Today, the ever popular physics-based social mobile game Angry Birds is spreading its wings beyond the iPhone and Android, expanding to Playstation 3 and PlayStation Portable this week. This move indicates just how serious this entire operation is about its growth; for a mobile social game, it manages to accomplish something not many ...
Commtouch: 30% Spam Decrease in December
According to cloud security solutions provider Commtouch, inboxes everywhere have seen a 30% drop in spam this December. An earlier 18% drop in October is associated with the closure of spam organization Spamit in September – spam level for Q4 overall was 83%, down from 88% in Q3 2010. Spam has always been a fairly ...
MySpace Losing Foothold: Potential Layoffs in Near Future
MySpace became steadily less significant with Twitter and Facebook’s constant expansion and social-network trend setting. The website struck a major ad deal with Google recently, but that’s not enough to stabilize its descent. That’s why the possibility of layoffs concerning up to 50% of the 1,100 has been raised by multiple sources. “While the decision ...
Amazon Kindle: 2010 Success, 2011 Expectations
Amazon’s ever-popular Kindle device and apps are the main factors which brought e-reading and premium digital content to the mainstream, and impacted the publishing industry as a whole. At this point, there’s really no going back. The reason behind its popularity is the fact the Kindle is available to sync a single account across all ...
Lighthouse Security: Quick Connect Tech for IAM Services
SaaS security company Lighthouse Security has enhanced the federated identity and access management within its Lighthouse Gateway cloud-based service. This enhancement, arriving in the form of its new Quick Connect technology is reportedly able to simplify federated user provisioning and single sign on for popular SaaS applications. “Businesses can now share user credentials with partners ...
HTC CES Expectations, Rising Handset Issues
According to PCMag, HTC’s PR agency Waggener Edstrom had reportedly sent out buzzworthy packages indicating the introduction of a new 4G, Android 2.2 Smartphone at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. The package contained a space about the size of a Smartphone, an image of an Android calling from Las Vegas, a ‘Froyo Lover’ Sticker, a ...
What Social Sharing was All About in 2010
One of the largest sharing network on the web, Clearspring, has revealed its top 10 shares for 2010. These kick off with the oil-covered Nahanni Johnstone and her daughter with 107K shares, Italian soccer player Daniele De Rossi’s fall with 110K, and the diaper-wearing Samba dancing Brazilian baby, with 112K shares. Moving further up the ...