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Mozilla Says Firefox Still Has 30% Market Share
Firefox may have been getting a lot more competition lately from Google’s Chrome browser, but the open-source offering from the Mozilla Foundation still has close to 30 percent market share, according...
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Apple Overtakes Microsoft in Market Value: End of an Era?
Apple, for a long time, was the David to Microsoft’s Goliath. It was a dynamic that suited Apple, as the company used its underdog status to attract customers who saw themselves as different and apart...
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The Cloud Performance Dashboard: A Quick Market Overview
Updated: As talk of cloud adoption by enterprises becomes more commonplace, focus is shifting from justifying the cloud to identifying best practices and the highest performing cloud providers. One...
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The State of iOS Gaming: The Platform Matures
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of something that I haven’t done since I first got an iPhone: gaming. Sure, I’ll occasionally pick up Angry Birds when the developers release a new major update containing...
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5 Simple Ways to Get More out of Google Analytics
I recently wrote about ways to find out if anyone reads your blog, and in that post I briefly mentioned analytics as one of the many ways to measure it. I’ve used Google Analytics for years to learn...
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Can Twitter Help You Predict the Stock Market?
Stock traders are constantly looking for ways to figure out what the markets are going to do so they can get an edge on everyone else — some even track seemingly unrelated factors like the weather to...
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Twitter is a stream, but it’s also a reservoir
The idea of a stream of constantly changing real-time information wasn’t invented by Twitter, but it’s probably one of the closest approximations of that idea for many users. To some extent, the...
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Big data is a big deal — and getting bigger — for retailers
Big data practices are a natural fit for retailers, which already parse inventory information from ERP systems, multiple databases and transactions from registers. But they haven’t seen anything yet,...
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Deezer is going slow against Spotify
It recently launched in the UK and is surging to launch in 200 new countries, but Deezer has barely added any new customers this year, according to one reading. Informa Telecoms & Media analyst...
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The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our history
One of the characteristics of the modern media age — at least for anyone who uses the web and social media a lot — is that we are surrounded by vast clouds of rapidly changing information, whether it’s...
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Has the mobile balance shifted in T-Mobile and Sprint’s favor? UBS thinks so
The time is ripe for T-Mobile and Sprint to take market share away from the dominant megacarriers in the U.S. mobile market, according to UBS Telecom analyst John Hodulik. In a research note released...
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Sponsored Research: Real-time query for Hadoop democratizes access to big...
The delivery of real-time query makes Hadoop accessible to more users. Its significance goes well beyond delivering a database management system kind of query engine that other products have had for...
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Dear Analysts: The White MacBook is NOT Apple’s First Sub-$1K Laptop
When I wrote about the MacBook earlier, I mentioned that Apple’s strategy to make it more of a MacBook Pro “lite” was rather amazing. Rather than bring down their laptop’s entry level, as everyone...
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iPod Chief Switch: What it Could Mean for Apple
For those of you who don’t know, Apple is currently embroiled in a legal dispute over former IBM exec Mark Papermaster, whom they recently lured away from the IT firm. The apparent purpose of pinching...
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MacBook 3G: Ringer or Red Herring?
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between professional industry analysts and Apple fanboys coming up with dream specs for their ideal notebook. Such is the case with the most recent prediction...
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Barclays Analyst Predicts Apple Ultra-Portable, Entry-Level iPhone
It seems everyone is lowering their sights regarding Apple’s projected earning for next financial year. But some, at least, are predicting more “wow” factor to shore up those numbers. No one seems to...
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Don’t Expect Mass Enterprise iPhone Adoption in 2009
The iPhone has a lot of potential for enterprise use. It’s a powerful device, and it supports Exchange synchronization, and more and more, businesses are integrating Apple computers into their current...
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Analysis of a Rumor: Large Format iPod Touch
As you may or may not be aware, TechCrunch reported yesterday that a larger format, 7 to 9-inch iPod touch was in the works at Apple and would arrive by next fall. They claim to have received the...
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Exploratree: Free, Customizable Analytical Tools
The first thing I want to say about this resource is that it is a little out of the ordinary. Incredibly useful, but different in that its obvious target is students. I’m not pitching it as a resource...
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Analyst Talks Apple Netbook, iPhones; Has Actual Source for Once
Normally, industry analysts are a talkative, confident bunch, but generally speaking, they are like old fisherman, spinning yarns and telling tales that have become exaggerated through constant...
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