Tag: market share
Apple is now selling as many phones as Samsung, apparently.
Apple iPad dominates tablet market with 68% market share
Despite stiff competition from the Samsung Galaxy Tab range, Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire, Apple's iPad continues to dominate tablet sales, with a 68% market share. New second quarter data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that…
Yahoo! clawing back market share from Google?
If the latest figures from traffic-trackers comScore are correct, it would appear that Yahoo! is slowly but surely clawing back some of Google’s utter dominance of the search sector, in the USA at least.
After many years of decline, Yahoo!’s search numbers have been increasing now for six months in a row, and in January they jumped up half a percentage point to 21%. Simultaneously, Google dropped half a percent to 63%.
It’s great news for Yahoo!, because it means that despite the acquisition dance around the company last year hasn’t had any negative effect on their core offering at all. Meanwhile, MSN Live Search is languishing at 8.5%, while Microsoft pours money into it, and Cuil is nowhere to be seen.
Internet Explorer browser usage dives below 70%, Firefox hits 20%
It’s no secret that internet browser Firefox has been one of the shining lights of the open source movement, taking market share from Microsoft in a way that Linux hasn’t ever quite been able to. Well, in November last year, usage of Internet Explorer dipped below 70% for the first time in a decade, and Firefox’s market share rose above 20%.
At its peak in 2003, Internet Explorer was running on nearly 94.5% of the world’s internet-using computers. Since then, however, usage has steadily declined, due to endless bugs and security vulnerabilities leading to poor public perception of the software.
Microsoft SearchPerks: a blatant attempt to gain market share
Microsoft have always done things a little bit differently. Sometimes that’s great, like the Zune. Other times it’s awful, like this. To try and get some more market share, Microsoft are basically paying people to use their search…
iPhone web usage goes up 58% in a month
There’s no disputing that iPhone 3G’s been popular. Figures just released by Net Applications – a web service company – indicate that usage of the web functions of the device has more than doubled since the 3G model was released…
Sony may create HDTV with integrated Blu-ray drive
Based on recent comments made by Sony’s president and Electronics CEO, Ryoji Chubachi, the company may soon create high definition LCD TVs with integrated Blu-ray players / burners.
It’s part of their 2008 strategy to increase global market share of all Blu-ray products from 20% (current) to 50%…
Internet Explorer 7 still losing out to Firefox, says, errr… Firefox
According to the "Spread Firefox" website (who I'm sure are being entirely impartial) Microsoft's announcement of 100million installations of Internet Explorer 7 is entirely (?) attributable to upgrades from IE6, with the total market share of Internet Explorer dropping over…
