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Report: Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

Mobile is today as important, if not more important, than desktops when it comes to the internet and apps. A clear reminder of that comes with news of a report claiming that Google's Android has overt

Mobile internet use passes desktop for the first time, study finds

More users around the world are accessing the internet from mobile devices than from desktop computers for the first time, according to internet monitoring firm StatCounter. The combined traffic from

Apple Falls Behind Samsung In Global Internet Usage On Smartphones, Pointing To A Low-Cost iPhone Challenge

Today, StatCounter -- the research group that tracks Internet usage by browser, platform and device, among other things -- has <a target="_blank" href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vendor-ww-mont

StatCounter: Nokia Cedes Global Mobile Internet Usage Top Spot To Apple — But Samsung’s Star Is Rising

Nokia's slide down the mobile rankings continues: StatCounter figures for January 2013 show Apple dislodged the Finnish mobile maker for the first time as the most popular mobile vendor in terms of gl

StatCounter: Windows Phone Will Blow Past BlackBerry By November 2012

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/isuppli-agrees-with-idc-gartner-windows-phone-to-surpass-ios-by-2015/">At least</a> <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/gartner-idc-windows-phone-to-s

StatCounter: Google Chrome Pushes Past Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (Again)

Well, it's official. Or at least it's official if you believe <a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-weekly-201121-201221">in StatCounter's data</a>. Google's Chrome web browser has overtaken

Two More Years: Microsoft Reminds Windows XP Users That It’s About Time To Upgrade

Windows XP, the operating system that launched in 2001 and just refuses to die, will still be getting security updates and hotfixes until April 8, 2014. With "just" two more years to go, though, Micro

StatCounter: Firefox 4 Has Already Eclipsed Internet Explorer 9

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/statcounter1.png" /> <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/mozilla">Mozilla</a> has <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/22/firefox-4

StatCounter: BlackBerry Trumps iOS In U.S. Mobile Web Wars For The First Time

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/blackberry.jpg" class="shot2" /> Web analytics company <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/statcounter">StatCounter</a> has a knack fo

Google's Mobile Search Market Share: An Estimated, Whopping 98.29%

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/pingdom.png" /> How's this for absolutely dominating an increasingly lucrative and fast-growing segment? Google currently boasts a mobile se

StatCounter: Chrome Now Bigger Than Safari In The US, Too

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/chrome1.jpg" class="shot2" /> According to website analytics company StatCounter, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/product/chrome">Google C

StatCounter: IE6 Usage Falls Below 5% In The US, But IE8 Still On The Rise

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/statcounter.png" /> Microsoft's oft-lamented browser, Internet Explorer 6, may finally be <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/02/23/ie6-deat

StatCounter: Facebook, StumbleUpon Generate More Traffic Than Twitter

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/statcounter.png" /> According to StatCounter's <a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#social_media-ww-monthly-200903-201003">GlobalStats</a> res

Bing Leapfrogs Yahoo Search … Again

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/bing-215x137.png" width="215" height="137" />New stats from monitoring service <a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-US-daily-2009