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LG to launch new Google TV this month

According to an LG executive, the South Korean firm plans to launch an Internet-enabled Google TV in the United States the week of May 21st, Reuters reported on Monday. The company is looking to gain a larger share of the emerging smart TV market and defend itself against Apple, which is widely expected to unveil [...]

[ More ] May 8th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Understanding the Google Toolbar

The Google toolbar popup blocker is a major tool in preventing pop up advertising on your desktop. most computer owners and users want and use a pop up blocker to destroy pop ups and keep them in check. The Google toolbar popup blocker…   The Google toolbar popup blocker is a major tool in preventing [...]

[ More ] December 8th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Mobile data revenue will grow 23% to $315 billion this year, Gartner says

Mobile data connections are poised grow 11% in 2011, driving global mobile data revenue to $314.7 billion. Market research firm Gartner on Thursday said mobile data connections will reach 5.6 billion this year compared to 5 billion in 2010, driving global revenue from mobile data up 22.5% from the $257 billion earned last year. “Mobile [...]

[ More ] August 5th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Chrome’s growth slows in July according to new browser share data

Research firm Net Applications released its most recent browser share trend report on Monday. The latest information suggests that adoption of the Chrome web browser slowed slightly, possibly due to an increase in Safari’s popularity. Chrome had a 13.45% market share during the month of July, up .34 percentage points from the 13.11% share it [...]

[ More ] August 2nd, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Software |

Android grabs 53% of global smartphone market share; iOS 50% of application revenues

A new report published by Millennial Media paints a picture of the global smartphone landscape in April of 2011. The company found that Android continued its domination in pure market share, holding a 53% of impressions on the company’s network. Apple’s iOS came in second with 28% and RIM’s BlackBerry OS came in third with [...]

[ More ] May 19th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Cellphones |

Windows Phone will beat Android in 2013, analyst explains

Late last week, BGR wrote about a recent report suggesting Microsoft’s share of the global smartphone market would overtake Google’s share in 2015, and Windows Phone would become the best-selling smartphone platform in the world at that point. On Tuesday, the Pyramid Research analyst responsible for the report published a follow up explaining that her [...]

[ More ] May 11th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Canalys: Android dominance grows as Q1 market share climbs to 35%

Market research and analysis firm Canalys on Wednesday released its global country-level smartphone market share data for the first quarter of 2011. According to the firm’s report, Android continued to dominate the worldwide smartphone market as global shipments grew to 37.5 million units, giving Google’s mobile OS a market-leading 35% share of smartphone sales in [...]

[ More ] May 5th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

Video chat may be coming to Android 2.3.4

A carefully crafted tweet has sparked rumors of a native video-chat feature coming to Android 2.3.4 in the near future. “Just had a video call using gmail on Nexus S. Impressive quality @googlenexus Gingerbread 2.3.4 #io2011,” reads the post in question. The implication is — obviously — that Google will migrate its Gmail, browser-based video [...]

[ More ] April 27th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Cellphones |

Google posts 27% increase in revenues; Q1 earnings slightly miss mark

Internet juggernaut Google has released its financial results from the first-quarter of 2011, and things are looking pretty good. The company posted revenues of $8.58 billion during the quarter — which represents a 27% increase year-over-year — with $5.88 billion of that figure being generated by Google-owned websites. The company failed to meet Wall Street’s [...]

[ More ] April 15th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |

LG to produce Nexus tablet for Google, suggests rumor

According to intel acquired by blog Mobile Review, LG has been tasked with producing a pure-Google, Nexus tablet for the Mountain View-based Android maker. Details are scarce (and unconfirmed), but the site states that the device will be used as Google’s base for development, run the latest tablet-optimized operating system — Honeycomb (Android 3.0) — [...]

[ More ] March 28th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Industry |