Analytics firm Quantcast shared new mobile market share percentages this week showing Google’s Android operating system growing in popularity across North America.
While Apple’s iPhone remains the obvious leader in this space, Google has made a considerable impact in a very short time span. Also, the Quantcast chart below shows Blackberry’s RIM OS reversing its recent downward trend.
Regardless which operating system is in the lead, it’s good to see some healthy competition on the rise in the mobile operating system space. It will only lead to greater ingenuity and more choices for consumers.
Similar to the stat-rich Did You Know 4.0 video that made the viral video rounds last fall, today’s The State of The Internet video is also chocked full of eyebrow-raising statistics about today’s internet and social networking usage.
Jessica Guynn at the Los Angeles Times tells us about the recent deal made between Yahoo and Twitter that will allow users to access and update their Twitter feed via Yahoo sites, share Yahoo content on Twitter, and use Yahoo Search to browse Twitter updates.
Eric Eldon at Inside Facebook shares data from Nielsen showing that Facebook saw the greatest increase in social network users in 2009 and that the network has grown 200% year-over-year in the United States alone.
Eric Eldon at Inside Facebook tells us about the new features rolled out to some Facebook users last night, in addition to sharing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that the social network has reached 400 million users this week.
Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb shares a breakdown of traffic stats from Hitwise showing growth to the location-based social network Foursquare, in addition to where the traffic came from.
Stan Schroeder at Mashable shares data from market research firm IDC, which shows a 39% increase in the number of smartphones shipped by manufacturers during Q4 2009, compared to Q4 2008.
Martin LaMonica at CNET previews the MyFord Touch, Ford’s latest voice-activated application interface, which is expected to be available in new Ford cars this year.
Kristen Nicole at All Facebook tells us how Universal Studios is marketing to consumers through a new Facebook app designed to give away 2,010 Blu-ray movies.
