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Nokia’s Dying Symbian OS Still Rules the Mobile World

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 30, 2011 at 8:45 am PT

More people use Symbian phones than you’d think. Way more.

Mozilla Says Google Relationship in “Active Negotiations”

Liz Gannes in News on December 5, 2011 at 10:00 am PT

Mozilla today responded to public scrutiny of renewal of its key revenue deal with Google by replying that it is “in active negotiations” with its major partner and competitor.

Firefox 4 First-Day Downloads Outstrip IE9's, Fall Short of Firefox 3 Record

Liz Gannes in Social on March 23, 2011 at 10:12 am PT

According to Mozilla’s official counter page, Firefox 4 has been downloaded more than seven million times. Impressive, but its first-day numbers were still short of the Firefox 3 release in June 2008, which actually earned a Guinness World Record for its eight million downloads in 24 hours.

The Mobile OS World: Symbian, iOS Are Superpowers; Android a Developing Nation

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 1, 2010 at 11:43 am PT

Some sobering data points for the Droid army and a reminder that the Android onslaught is still largely a domestic phenomenon (for Koreans). Mobile Web usage statistics for the month of October compiled by StatCounter and Royal Pingdom reveal Apple’s iOS and Nokia’s Symbian as the dominant platforms, with Android besting them in a single country.

Not With a Bing, but a Whimper IV

John Paczkowski in News on October 7, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

Looks like Bing’s steady upward trend of market share gains may have reversed itself. Microsoft’s new search engine saw its U.S. search share fall in September, according to figures from Hitwise. Troubling news for Microsoft. Hitwise’s latest numbers are the second set of metrics from a Web analytics firm showing Bing’s market share in decline.

Not With a Bing, but a Whimper III

John Paczkowski in News on October 1, 2009 at 10:49 am PT

Microsoft’s efforts to bolster Bing’s market share are no longer paying off as well as they have been. After months of slight but steady increases in market share, Bing’s percentage of the search market in the U.S. and abroad fell in September for the first time.

More Consumers Googling With Bing

John Paczkowski in News on August 3, 2009 at 10:53 am PT

Microsoft’s Bing search service continues to gather momentum, albeit slowly. Bing’s share of the U.S. Internet search market grew one percent in July, rising to 9.41 percent from 8.23 percent in June, according to metrics outfit StatCounter. Meanwhile, Yahoo’s share of the market declined to 10.95 percent from 11.04 percent. So together, Microsoft and Yahoo, thanks to their new alliance, claim 20.36 percent of the search market. Which is a hell of a lot less than Google.