10 posts and columns on May

Viral Video: Pirates of the Sequelmania

in News on December 14, 2010 at 12:27 am PT

Is it just me or is this the 103rd sequel to the original “Pirates of the Caribbean”? In any case, here comes more special effects in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” which is opening this May.

Hitwise: Google Gained Search Market Share in May

in News on June 21, 2010 at 3:30 pm PT

In the search market, Google is either losing share or gaining it, and the direction it’s going depends on whose data you believe. According to comScore’s May search market report, Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo gained share, ostensibly at Google’s expense. Not according to Experian Hitwise, though.

May Search Metrics: Google Losing Share or Gaining It? All Depends on How You Look at the Data

in News on June 11, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

Getting an accurate read on the tides of search market share these days is no easy feat given the interface changes being rolled out by the major players. Consider comScore’s May search market report, which shows Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing gaining share, ostensibly at Google’s expense.

Nearly Two Billion Tweets a Month; Giddy Foursquare Mayors Suspected

in Social on June 9, 2010 at 10:37 am PT

Here’s a promising metric for Twitter and its newly launched advertising system: The microblogging service hosted nearly two billion tweets in May. This according to analytics house Pingdom, which says that number is about double what it was last December.

Apple iPad 3G Arrives in U.S. on April 30

in News on April 20, 2010 at 5:50 am PT

When Apple said the 3G-enabled version of its new iPad slate would ship by “late April,” it wasn’t kidding. In a press release issued moments ago, the company said the device will arrive at market and in the hands of U.S. customers who pre-ordered it on Friday, April 30.

Before the Tablet: Apple's Steve Jobs in 2004 Talks About Not Doing Another Newton (Video)

in News on January 27, 2010 at 5:01 am PT

Before Steve Jobs unveils his latest and perhaps greatest creation–which is expected to be a tablet computer–later today at a massively hyped event in San Francisco, you might want to peruse this video clip, unearthed from our archives by the crack All Things Digital team, in which the legendary Apple CEO said he was glad he did not do another single-screen PDA-like device after the Newton debacle. In an interview with Walt Mossberg at the second D: All Things Digital conference in May 2004, Jobs said definitively: “I’m as proud of the products that we have not done as the ones we have done.”

China Delays Filtering Initiative

in News on June 30, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

Palm Sold 300,000 Pres in June

in News on June 30, 2009 at 5:10 am PT

During its post-earnings conference call last Thursday, Palm refused to say how many Pre handsets have been sold to date. Or how many it believes it will sell in the first quarter of production. The company would say only, in the words of CEO Jon Rubinstein, that “sales have been strong and growing.” So until Palm provides specific Pre sales figures, we have only the estimates of analysts with which to gauge the device’s impact on Palm’s moribund smartphone franchise. And the latest estimates, from Edward Snyder at Charter Equity Research, suggest that the impact is great.
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Search Market: Same as It Ever Was

in News on June 16, 2009 at 4:34 pm PT

More sad data points in Microsoft’s Sisyphean battle for the search market. ComScore released May 2009 core search volume and market share metrics for the U.S. this afternoon and they show what search metrics always seem to show these days: Google’s share of the domestic market growing at the expense of its rivals.
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OS X Market Share: 8.23 Percent Down, 82.06 Percent to Go …

in News on October 2, 2008 at 8:50 am PT

Historically, Apple’s September back-to-school promotion has been a great driver of sales and this year was no exception. According to research outfit Net Applications, Apple’s share of the operating system market rose nearly four-tenths of a percentage point in September, its biggest one-month gain since May.