Microsoft's Windows 8 and RT tablets have seemingly got off to a bit of a flyer, with number crunchers estimating Windows is now the OS on 7.4 per cent of all portable tabs. Not a bad beginning given the fashionable and cheap Apple and Android onslaught. Read More >>
Britain's favourite hypocritical outrage and celebrity-arse photograph portal has launched a public-facing stats page, giving normal people an easy way to shake their heads in dismay at the opinions of its mad, racist, angry nutcase readers. Read More >>
According to stats generated by Google, the internet's generally working better for everyone in 2013, as improvement in back-end, server and browser tech managed to speed everything up. So close that Speedtest tab and stop whining. Read More >>
Looks like it's not just iPhone users who love forcing everyone to stare at pictures of their bloody food, or ruining improving overwise-decent photos with wonderful lo-fi filters. After a year of hipstering-it-up on Android, almost half of Instagram's users are Google-powered. Read More >>
Featured comment by Someone Else:
"I understand your point but...
It's not a single phone. Currently Apple sells the 4,4S & 5 and there are lots of people out there using hand me..." More »
If you are lucky enough to be, or happen to hang around with people under the age of 29, they may well have a new favourite fashionable tech company -- Mircrosoft. Yes, the same one. The Windows one. The old Bill Gates one. It's apparently quite cool now. Read More >>
Stats covering the global connected devices market for 2012 show that Samsung is definitely the new number one, with its mix of high-spec flagships and budget clunkers dominating the smart gadget world. Read More >>
Featured comment by christyroot:
"The top segment of the smart phone market got the best models from Samsung and Apple which has been doing well in the international markets. A lot has..." More »
When I hear that someone died in some freak accident that involves fireworks or pavements or parked cars or wild animals, I wonder to myself, what the hell are the odds of that freaking happening? The good thing? They're pretty high! The bad thing? It really, really sucks for that poor soul who's 1 in 50,729,141 to die from fireworks or 1 in 25,364,571 to die from a bee sting. Read More >>
Over the past three years, Wikipedia member West.andrew.g bas been analysing the weird and wonderful data traffic on the English-language Wikipedia. In the the latest edition of Wikipedia's community-managed newspaper, The Signpost, he's revealed the biggest traffic spikes on the site within that time—in the process proving that we're all morbid sports fan. Read More >>
Stats released by UK network Vodafone show that the length of time we spend talking on our mobiles has fallen by half over the last five years, as we now mumble a short excuse and save the chatting for other communications channels and apps. Read More >>
New stats from a company calling itself GlobalWebIndex claim Google+ is now the second most popular social site in the world, eclipsing Twitter and YouTube with only the Facebook goliath ahead of it. Read More >>
Featured comment by alienvariety:
"G+ is great. Barely use Twitter these days, and Facebook is just for prying and spying - more or less exactly what it was originally invented for." More »
It's looks like Android is not about to stop snowballing any time soon with the recent figures, direct from Eric Schmidt, that its daily activation rate has reached an epic 1.3 million a day. Bearing in mind these are unique activations we're talking about, it's truly mind blowing. If that wasn't enough, Android now has an install base of 480 million users. Not too shabby for the little green robot. Read More >>
Featured comment by Southern:
"And the members of my household, who now have eschewed Apple and Nokia devices in favour of some flavour of Android.
Seems that when you hold somet..." More »
Research into the locations of the most prolific torrent uploaders has placed the UK in fourth place when it comes to the number of highly trafficked torrents generated, with the US, Canada and Australia beating our brave file uploaders to the piracy medals. Read More >>
Featured comment by smarklew:
"Don't worry too much, guys - BTGuard routes through Canada (not sure where other VPNs have their servers). We're not smaller scale - just smarter." More »
Sky has fiddled with its iPad Sky Sports app for the new footie season, rubbing it down with the magic sponge and adding dual-screen features to make watching John Terry whinge his way through an afternoon even more... enjoyable. Read More >>
Android's big boss Andy Rubin has fired up his dormant Twitter account to address the world, informing them that he doesn't have any plans to quit Google, and saying the company now sees some 900,000 new Android devices register themselves every single day. Read More >>
Featured comment by Apples:
"I wonder how many are running ICS ;)
But seriously, is Google going to be releasing JellyBean before ICS is even on 10% on devices?" More »
Analyst IDC has released some updated stats covering the global smartphone scene, which show continuing growth for Android and underline just how much it's come to depend on Samsung's winning range of handsets. Read More >>
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