From December to March, Apple's iPhone lost ground to smartphones from rival Samsung in a survey to assess consumers' future purchase plans, a market research firm said last week. According to 451 Research's ChangeWave, of 4,000 consumers ...
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Google's placement of its own flight-finding service in search results is resulting in lower click-through rates for companies that have not bought advertising, according to a study by Harvard University academics. The study provides data ...
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Microsoft isn't fooling anyone by hiding behind a trade group to complain to European antitrust regulators about Google and its Android mobile operating system, a legal expert said today. "FairSearch.org is seen by many observers here as ...
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Microsoft took off the gloves and took a big swing at Facebook today, calling the social network's new Home launcher an old idea. Facebook Thursday unveiled Home, a home screen, along with family of apps all for Android smartphones. ...
A federal court in Chicago this week granted class action status to a lawsuit accusing comScore, one of the Internet's largest user tracking firms, of secretly collecting and selling Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords ...
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Apple's iPhone dominance in the U.S. is largely due to carriers suppressing market economics, an analyst said today. U.S. carriers artificially dampen demand for lower-cost smartphones by disconnecting calling and data plan prices from ...
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Yahoo! has a new look online following a makeover engineered by its chief executive Marissa Mayer. The long-awaited makeover of Yahoo.com's home page is the most notable change to the website since the internet company hired Marissa ...
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As Microsoft pushed Outlook.com out of preview mode today, analysts said the company's "Scroogled" attack ads, which fired shots at Google's Gmail two weeks ago, were effective. "We all like to think that we don't like attack ads, but the ...
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Google is hanging onto its dominant share of the search market, while its competitors inch up and down. Google edged a bit further ahead in January, going from 66.7% of the search market in December to 67%, industry tracker comScore said. ...
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Google Maps slipped last year, giving Facebook enough room to become the most popular mobile app in the U.S., according to ComScore. Facebook's mobile app had nearly 85.5 million unique visitors in December, while the Google Maps app had ...
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Google Android was the top smartphone platform with 53.7% share Samsung was reported as the handset manufacturer with the highest market share of 26.9%, an increase of 1.2% compared to August 2012. It was followed by Apple and LG, which ...
Tags: Google Android, smartphone platform, Samsung, November, 2012
Computerworld-Cyber Monday 2012--yesterday--was the biggest online shopping day in history,according to multiple sources. The Adobe Digital Index,which tracks online spending,said that online sales totaled some$1.98 billion Monday,a ...
The feud between Twitter and Instagram is heating up. About a week after Instagram disabled an integration tool, leaving pictures difficult to view on Twitter, the company has pulled all of its photos from Twitter. The microblogging ...
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Pinterest, a social pinboard site, has thrown open its doors to anyone who wants to join. "We're thrilled to announce open registration," Pinterest said in a blog post Wednesday. "For those of you who haven't joined Pinterest yet, this ...
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Instagram has seen a huge spike in popularity among mobile device users over the past six months, pushing it past Twitter for the first time. Instagram, which is just two years old, went from 886,000 daily mobile users in March to ...
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