New Poll
New Poll:
What kind of OS for mobile are you using.
With my iPhone and my old Nokia N95 I am on two different OS. Appels “Los 4″ and for Nokia a old version of Symbian.
Iphone still bigger than Android
According to a new study leads Iphone operating system is still over Android.
The study is conducted by Chitika ad network based on figures from over 80 000 sites, mainly from the United States. The study was conducted during the first two weeks in July recorded about 9 million handsets in Ios, compared with about 7.7 million phones running Android.
Android growth is impressive given that the iPhone and Ios has been around for almost two years before Android was released. Android has the advantage that it’s on handsets from a variety of manufacturers so that it had a rapid growth.
According Chitika so run now almost exactly half of all iPhone Ios 4, Apple’s latest mobile operating system, released last month.
Among Androidtelefoner majority Android uses a 2.1 with a share of 55 percent. Android 2.2 (Froyo), released a few weeks ago running as yet only 3.3 percent of all Androidtelefoner. As 40 percent of Android-users still running on Android version 1.5 or 1.6.
150 millons mobile FaceBook user
The number of Facebook users of mobile phones has increased 50 percent since April this year.
From April, til end of June the number of Facebook users has grown from 100 million to 150 million.
The mobile phone is thus the fastest growing access tool for Facebook, says Eric Tseng, director of mobile products on Facebook
- We see it as a key platform for the future, he said, during a speech he delivered at the conference Mobile Beat 2010 in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Facebook had 500 million at year-end users and inoficiella assessments to track the border exploded 600 million at the end of the year. This means that more than one in four users of Facebook Mobile.
Bing is growing
After several months of stagnation, the Microsoft search-engine Bing has grown marginally at the expense of Google. Microsoft Bing is still well behind Google in terms of market share and is currently the third biggest search engine after Google and Yahoo. In June, however, Bing grew more than Google in the U.S. market.
Microsoft Bing, who celebrated the first anniversary of the end of May this year saw an increase from May to June from 12.1 percent to 12.7 percent market share. During the same period, Google lost its foothold slightly from 63.7 percent to 62.6 percent of the market. Like Microsoft Bing, was Yahoo also increased slightly in June and went from 18.3 percent to 18.9 percent of the market compared with May. According to research firm ComScore U.S. Internet users did 16.4 billion Internet searches in June, an increase of three percent the previous month.
Microsoft Bing was launched in late May last year and is a revised version of Microsoft’s previous search engine, Live Search. Microsoft increased its market share slightly after the launch of Bing, but has since not been a major threat to Google or Yahoo. According to industry analysts, so most users choose Google as a result of habit, and it takes a lot for them to change the search service.
IT over 15 years from July (2010)
Much has happened since we started using the data and the Internet regularly.
Here are some history………..
July 5 years ago.
- Microsoft and IBM agree in court, which means that Microsoft must pay $ 775 million in cash and $ 75 million in software
- Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.2
- IBM announces that support for OS / 2 will end at the end of the year
- Microsoft is launching what they call Windows Genuine Advantage. in a step to try to stop piracy of their programs
July 10 years ago
- Microsoft releases. Internet Explorer 5.5, MSN Messenger 3.0 and service pack 1 for Windows 2000
- Intel released 1.13 gigahertz Pentium III
- On the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference presented an early beta version of 64-bit Windows 2000
July 15 years ago
- The first worm to infect data when visiting a Web page is discovered
- Amazon.com opens officially
- IBM completes their buy of Lotus Development Corporation at a price of $ 3.5 billion
- Seagate delivers its millionth Barracuda hard drive
Motorola Droid X vs. Iphone
Today, Thursday, July 15 Motorola released their new smart phone Droid X.
First up in the U.S. to begin selling Droid X is in the U.S. operator Verizon Wireless
The Android-based handset has received good reviews after a series of previews.
With a 4.3-inch screen, good multimedia features and a relatively long battery life compared to many competitors. Although it is unlikely to be so Droid X comes up in sales levels for the iPhone, but it have been showing signs of a great interest in Motorola’s new mobile. Zeus Kerravala, who is an analyst at Yankee Group, says that the earier release of Droid X that is to use all the bad publicity Iphone 4.
Verizon has not been slow to exploit antenna problems of Iphone 4, as a consumer magazine Consumer Reports recently warned. In the ads, the company produced exclusively to Droid X “dual antennas” which allows the user to “hold the phone how you want” and use it from anywhere to call.
Given that the iPhone sold four of 1.7 million copies the first three days, it is clear that it is the product of focus when it comes to competitors. U.S. retailer Best Buy have stopped all advance orders, and Verizon Wireless expects that the mobile phone runs out of stocks.
Droid X are using the operating system Android 2.1, an one update to Flash 2.2 and 1.10 later this year.
Google ♥ Gay
Are you gay and dreaming of a job at Google?
It will be a good deal.
IT giant Google will pay its U.S. employees who are homosexuals higher salaries than those with hetrosexuell orientation.
They want to offset the higher taxes that lesbians and gay people under U.S. law need to pay. Google is already known to be a benevolent employer. Employees are offered free food and free laundry, medical treatment and five months’ maternity leave with full pay. Longer duration than many other U.S. companies offer their staff, according to The New York Times.
Besides all these benefits they are now raising the salaries for homosexuals.
When an employee’s partner is offered health insurance through the employer is a tax-free benefit – but only for married heterosexual couples. For homosexuals to the insurance benefit taxed. Therefore, will Google raise their salaries, to make their net income equivalent to heterosexual. On average, it becomes a rice of the wage 750 €/year.
The new wage was introduced after lifting one of Google’s hiring pointed out the injustice of the human resources manager Laszlo Boch. Still, he can not estimate how much it will cost the company.
While wages are increased for homosexuals also offered the same favorable parental leave as heterosexual couples. U.S. Google has 20 600 employees and still do not know how many people are affected by the new rules, but their internal gay-club has 700 members.
