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Research And Development: Apple Vs Microsoft Vs Sony

The core of any long-standing technology company is research and development. Here’s how Apple, Microsoft and Sony’s last decade of spending stack up.

February 26, 2010
Software

The iPod Touch Is This Generation’s Tamagotchi

All these wonderful things we’re learning today, from data! First, we find out that Android is a guy thing. Now, we discover that the iPod Touch shares more demographics with glittering vampires than smartphones. iPod Touch: Kid stuff.

Software

Android’s Dude Problem

73% of Android users are men, compared to the rest of smartphone platforms, which skew only slightly manward. But really, we should have expected this. (And not in a sexist way!)

February 25, 2010
Software

Android App Store Is 57% Free Compared To Apple’s 25%

App store analytics firm Distimo recently released a bunch of juicy info about the major mobile app stores, and the results are pretty interesting. For one, Android is the place to be for free apps.

February 13, 2010
Software

iPhone Vs Android App Development: An Inverse Relationship

A mobile analytics firm named Flurry assembled this chart, plotting the percentage of newly registered iPhone and Android app projects over time. The relationship? Frighteningly inverse.

January 30, 2010
Computing

Slate Showdown: iPad Vs HP Slate Vs JooJoo Vs Android

Everybody’s talking about tablets, especially those single-pane capacitive touchscreen ones more specifically known as “slates”. The iPad is the biggest news maker, but there are lots headed our way (most with built-in webcams). Here’s how they measure up, spec-wise:

December 29, 2009
Software

I Guess Someone Got An iPod Touch For Christmas…

That crazy spike? That’s tracking the deluge of apps downloaded by (new) iPod touch owners on Christmas day. The ensuing drop? That’s when (new) iPod touch owners realised that eight farting apps was the threshold of the human spirit. [TechCrunch]

December 16, 2009
Software

Chrome Beats Safari

With the release of Chrome beta for Linux and Mac, the inevitable happened: Chrome became the #3 browser, narrowly sliding past Safari with a 4.4 per cent marketshare to Safari’s 4.37 per cent. The Google-Apple war is getting real, people. [ComputerWorld]

December 15, 2009
Science

Black Friday Emits 50 Times More CO2 Than Cyber Monday

Assuming a 30km round trip to a shopping centre on Black Friday, one study found Cyber Monday emits 50 times less carbon through the miracles of online shopping.

November 28, 2009
Gaming

Girls Play With Wiis

80 percent of female primary console players—the main person who plays the console—do their gaming on a Wii. just 11 percent use an Xbox 360 and 9 percent play a PS3. Does that say more about girls, the Wii or Xbox 360 and PS3? [Kotaku]

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