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Adobe Reports 1 Million Downloads Of Flash 10.1 On Android Phones

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Flash 10.1 beta was released in May this year and it arrived on the Android market about 2 months ago. The new version is clearly very popular among Android users as it has crossed 1 million downloads according to data released by Adobe today. Android smartphone users have been downloading the 10.1 beta passionately and […]

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iTunes To Double Song Sample Length

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Apple is holding its music/iTunes/iPod based press event tomorrow (1st September) and CNET is reporting from inside sources that the company will be making a change in the iTunes song sampling feature. 30 seconds sometimes are not enough to get the feel of a song as some feature long intros and by the time lyrics […]

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Gmail Phone Feature Goes International & Crosses 1 Million Calls

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According to official figures from ComScore in December 2009, Gmail has 176 million users worldwide and counting. Google very smartly decided to make use of the huge dedicated customer base and launched Google Call Phone service 2 days ago which integrates the Google Voice calling technology with Gmail and turns users’ inboxes in to a […]

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34% iPhone Users Waiting To Switch To Verizon

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AT&T’s exclusivity in being the only iPhone carrier in the US is going to end in a few months when rival service provider Verizon starts selling the smartphone with CDMA technology. It was already a common speculation that a huge number of iPhone users who are not satisfied with AT&T’s service would instantly switch to […]

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BlackBerry Tablet Rumoured To Be Launching In November

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After the universal ‘iPhone or BlackBerry’ argument, looks like the next version of everyone’s favourite tech topic shall be ‘iPad or Blackpad’ come November, 2010. Yes, allegedly, that’s the name BlackBerry manufacturers RIM are giving to their new tablet which has been in the news for a while now. Now reports have come in from […]

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Facebook’s People Tagging Feature Reported Broken

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Are you having difficulty tagging friends in your status updates using the ‘@’ sign? If yes, chances are you enabled the new publisher rolled out by Facebook for its ‘Facebook Questions’ product released on Wednesday. Facebook officials announced that they’re fixing the problem since the feature is still in the process of rolling out to […]

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Profit Figures Show Nokia Needs To Make A Competitive Smartphone

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Nokia has released its sales and profit figures for the second quarter of 2010 and though the cell phone giant continues to dominate the world in low-end and mid-range device sales, it’s suffering in the smartphone market. Nokia has shipped more than 111 million mobile devices in the 2nd quarter of 2010 with sales reaching […]

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‘ConsumerReports’ Says “We Can’t Recommend The iPhone 4”

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ConsumerReports.org is a trusted platform that provides ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services to its millions of subscribers. It was about time they gave their verdict on the new iPhone and now, after performing detailed lab tests on the new smartphone, the organisation has plainly refused to recommend it on their site. […]

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Facebook Fever Killing Orkut In India

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India and Brazil are the biggest Orkut using countries in a Facebook and Twitter crazy world but things are changing very fast in India in favour of Facebook. Data from ComScore reveals that Facebook attracted 18 million unique visitors from India in the month of May, compared to Orkut’s 19.7 million. In the past year […]

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Android Shows Highest Growth Rate In The Smartphone Market

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ComScore’s latest statistics regarding smartphone market share have revealed a major shift towards Android based phones in the March to May quarter. The company released the numbers today and it’s safe to say there’s a party going on at the Google headquarters right now. Though RIM and Apple remain the top 2 companies respectively in […]

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Never Watch a YouTube Ad Again

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Wall Street Journal reported today that YouTube is about to introduce a skip button to allow users to stop playing an ad embedded in a video and will not charge advertisers for ads that were skipped. This was announced today at a Google press conference by senior product manager Baljeet Singh. YouTube began testing skippable […]

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Browser Wars: Chrome Beats Safari In the US Too

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Web analytics company Net Applications had reported in December 2009 that Google Chrome has become the number three browser in the world and its popularity was expected to soar in the future. That future is here already. Latest statistics released from StatCounter show that in just 6 months Chrome has beaten Apple’s Safari in the […]

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Unofficial Reports Claim 1.5 Million iPhones Sold On Launch Day

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Apple’s official statement on the first day iPhone 4 sales is yet to arrive but of course all other sources have jumped into action and staggering sales figures are flying around. According to Oppenheimer’s Yair Reiner, a whopping 1.5 million iPhones were sold on the launch day. With 600,000 pre-orders, Reiner estimates that 100,000 additional, […]

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YouTube’s New Record, 14.6 Billion Videos Viewed in May 2010

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American web metrics company comScore released new statistics today which reveal an astonishing increase in the online video viewing trend around the world. The leader among all video hosting sites is who else but Google owned YouTube which received a record 14.6 Billion hits in the month of May alone, representing 43.1 % of all […]

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Acer Expects It’ll Overtake HP By Year’s End

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Some might call it a little too ambitious but Acer might just be on to something with their positive expectation of overtaking HP in worldwide laptop shipments before the end of 2010. The Taiwanese company is one of the biggest players in the laptop market and Chairman J T Wang told investors in a conference […]

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WordPress.com Crosses 200 Million Blog Posts

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If you’re a blogger on WordPress.com here’s another reason to update your blog. You have helped WordPress reach the impressive milestone of 200 million blog posts since its inception. The site has 11.4 million blogs and data from Quantcast says more than 260 million people access them every month. A huge number of these blogs […]

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Data From comScore Shows a Strong Growth Rate for Twitter

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Considering that it’s only 3 years old, one would expect Twitter to still be the new- kid- on- the- block but facts show it’s already one of the biggest social networking sites and showing strong growth on a monthly basis. Twitter stands behind only Facebook and Youtube in users count and data released from online […]

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Tablets Will Outsell Netbooks By 2012, Says Forrester Research

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A report released today by Forrester Research claims that tablet computing is expected to increase massively in the very near future and the data collected indicates that tablet sales in the US will overtake Netbook sales by 2012 and Desktop sales by 2015. The report was presented by Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman at the Untethered […]

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Internet In 2020, All in the Cloud?

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The Elon University (USA) researchers have published a report based on a survey of 900 Internet/ tech experts and analysts which predicts that Internet users will “live mostly in the cloud” by 2020. In layman’s terms this basically means that we’ll be doing most of our online work through web-based and mobile apps such as […]

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