Archive for January 2nd, 2009

Mozilla breaks 20 per cent market share (vnunet.com)

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Friday 2 January 2009 at 22:04:00 Bad month for Microsoft and Google The latest data on browser market share indicates that Mozilla has broken the 20 per cent barrier in worldwide adoption....

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Google in push to gain e-mail market share (Financial Times)

Google , the clear leader in internet search, has been zeroing in on user’s inboxes in a push to win market share in e-mail, an area where its rivals Microsoft and Yahoo still dominate.

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Bloggers trash Journal’s tale of cyber queue-jumping (Guardian Unlimited)

Last Monday, the front page of the Wall Street Journal (prop: R. Murdoch) ran an interesting story headlined: Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web . Written by Vishesh Kumar and Christopher Rhoads, the article began: "The celebrated openness of the internet - network providers are not supposed to give preferential treatment to any traffic - is quietly losing powerful defenders" and ...

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

British team discovers lost Eden amid forgotten forest in Mozambique (Guardian Unlimited)

It was one of the few places on the planet that remained unmapped and unexplored, but now Mount Mabu has started to yield its secrets to the world. Until a few years ago this giant forest in the mountainous north of Mozambique was known only to local villagers; it did not feature on maps nor, it is believed, in scientific collections or literature. But after "finding" the forest on a Google ...

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Android netbook is a possibility (The Inquirer)

Nick Farrell the inquirer Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:26:33 +0000 Analysis Google plans to annex laptop land

Friday, January 2nd, 2009