Tag: MARKET

Google Chrome continues its charge ahead, and has finally overtaken Safari to become the third most popular browser in the United States. With 8.97% of the total browser market, Chome now sits behind only Firefox and Internet Explorer -- both of which will take a little more time to catch. Globally, Chrome fares better still -- with a 9.4% share. That's a pretty meteoric rise for a relatively ...

Google, in a fantastic case of counter-PR, has published a story detailing how it has the ability to remotely remove applications from an Android phone. It comes just a day after the sensational news that up to 20% of Android apps could be malware, and is obviously intended to showcase some of the meatier safeguards available on the Android platform. The story details how the Android Security ...

We've all been watching the browser share trends for quite some time now, wondering when the day would come that an alternative finally shoved Internet Explorer off its perch. It's finally happened - at least when we're talking about the most popular single version of a browser. You can see it all in the bar graph above: Firefox 3.5 has dethroned Internet Explorer 7. Yes, we can all see ...

Why am I writing about hardware on Download Squad? Well, because I'm sick and tired of people squinting their eyes at the mobile market in a vain attempt to understand why Apple's tabula rasa has lobbed a shiny multi-touch grenade into the space. U.S. "Droid Does" TV ads are touting all the things the iPhone doesn't do. But what is it the Pre and various Android-based phones lack? A proper 3D ...

It's all over the place; Verizon is embracing Android. Google loving apologist geeks everywhere are heralding the 85 million new customers -- who are obviously ready to try Android, if only Verizon would let them -- as the beginning of a new era in mobile phone competition. The cries of panacea are all I've heard all day: "It's going to be a floodgate of new users! " "Death to the iPhone!" ...

People have been talking about the market on Twitter almost as long as there's been a Twitter. Some Twitter clients even automatically turn stock symbols into links. That's a good start, but if you're a Twitter user and market junkie, TweetyStock is a must-have iPhone app. It's like a stock-specific Twitter client that lets you follow tweets about stocks in your portfolio, view detailed charts ...

According to a Nielsen NetRatings report, March was not a good month for MSN Search. While Google's share of the search engine market grew from 47 to 49% from February to March and Yahoo!'s grew about 1 point to 22%, Microsoft's MSN Search saw a corresponding drop from 14. Ouch. The report says that Google will have the majority of the market in a matter of weeks. ...