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ComScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data and reported some interesting trends in smartphone usage. 42.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones, up 18 percent from the August through October period. Here is content usage breakdown: Most popular activity is still text messaging (63.5%) Web surfing (28%) Games (28.6%) Accessing...

From beginning of March European users will be able to choose which web browser they want to install as an alternative to Internet Explorer. In random order MS shows Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera & Safari. This “primary” browsers list is visible instantly and when users scroll down the page they can find Avant, Flock,...

According to internetworldstats.com, the top three most used languages on the internet are English, Chinese, and Spanish. The quickest growing language is Chinese, which gained some 1087% during the last decade. Spanish increased by 650% and English by 237%.

The world’s leading telecommunications operators and device manufacturers are launching an open global alliance, that will establish a simple route to market for developers and provide access to the latest and widest range of innovative applications and services to as many customers as possible worldwide. Current members: América Móvil AT&T Bharti Airtel China Mobile China...

Aperture 3 is out and packed with more than 200 new features such as: Full screen Metadata Pane Map Nondestructive Brushes Support for Pressure-Sensitive Tablets Feather Tool to blend adjustments more easily Multiple Instances of Adjustments Faces Places with support for iPhone Photo GPS Locations Web publishing to Facebook, Flickr, MobileMe Video support Audio Support...

Symbian — the OS that runs in about 330m mobile phones on the market is not Open source and free. Non-profit Symbian Foundation consists of about 50 companies and was created by Nokia in mid-2008 followed by the acquisition of Symbian LTD. Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation says that all source code...

At 7:20 am, in the small town of Punxsatawney the world's most famous groundhog said something that was interpreted by the Inner circle: "If you want to know next, you must see my text.  As the sky shines bright above me, my shadow is what I see”. Means we’ve got 6 more weeks of winter...

At a recent Town Hall meeting with Apple employees Steve Jobs made it clear that Flash is not coming to iPhone or iPad. "Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash," he says. "The world...

Good News! According to Google Unicode is used on almost half of the Internet pages, which makes it a global text encoding of choice. Google uses version 5.2 of Unicode, which represents a wide range of characters from Egyptian Hieroglyphs, to most living languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Zulu. ASCII, which once dominated the...

This is what we make of Apple's iPad presentation - a beautifully and smartly designed new device, which is clearly oriented towards the education market and execs on the go. Pros: Beautiful design Vertical and horizontal modes Long batter life (10 hours) Amazing stand by time of 1 month LED screen, which delivery reach colors...