Firefox Increasingly Popular In Europe

Firefox Increasingly Popular In Europe

Apr 18

XiTi Monitor, a Web analytics company based in France, reported that the numbers for Mozilla Firefox use among Europeans increased from 19.4% in April 2006 to 24.1% in March 2007. The company draws its data from visitors to Web sites using its analytics service, which collects data such as the visitor’s browser and location, said Anne-Laure Benzimera, communications manager for XiTi...

Google Apps To Include PowerPoint

Google Apps To Include PowerPoint

Apr 18

Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced the web search giant will be adding a presentations application to Docs & Spreadsheets. Docs & Spreadsheets will now feature a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a presentations application. However Schmidt said the suite isn’t a direct competitor to Office because Docs & Spreadsheets doesn’t have all of Office’s functionality....

iPhone Brand Recognition High Among Teens

iPhone Brand Recognition High Among Teens

Apr 17

A new survey performed by Piper Jaffray shows that 84 percent of their 500 teenagers sampled have heard of the Apple iPhone. According to our resident scientists, the sample size is just large enough to make deductions about the entire teenage population; hooray for statistics! According to a senior Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, some of them are even willing to cough up the $500 for the...

The Beatles Finally Coming to iTunes?

The Beatles Finally Coming to iTunes?

Apr 17

It would appear that the final obstacle to get The Beatles music on iTunes, and other services, has finally been overcome. Apple Corps, which is owned by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison, has finally settled a £30m royalty dispute with EMI Group. The company began legal proceedings against EMI in December 2005, claiming that EMI owed more than £30m in...

Mac OS X Leopard Delayed Due to iPhone

Mac OS X Leopard Delayed Due to iPhone

Apr 17

Apple has just issued a press release statement announcing that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has been delayed until October. The reason? iPhone: “we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.” However, Apple will still be displaying...