News and Information Blog 26 02 2010

Apple's iTunes Hits 10 Billion Download Mark

Leading online music shop hits another major milestone with the sale of the 10 billionth song, offering one lucky customer a prize for making the right purchase at the right time.

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Business Continuity: Email Backup for SMBs

How long could your business last if you lost your email access and data? We look at a couple of Internet-based email backup and recovery options for different sized small businesses.

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Google Trounces Yahoo, Bing In Mobile Search Report

Although Google's undoubtedly best known for dominating the traditional search market, the company's no slouch when it comes to mobile. New stats from Opera indicate that Google has a huge lead over its closest rival, and that its other well-funded competitor barely enters the equation.

According to the latest Opera State of the Mobile Report, Google's search portal accounts "for more than 9% of all page views on the mobile Web." Obviously, that's impressive.

Moving on, things take a turn for the ho-hum. Yahoo can only claim 4.3 percent of page views, which isn't bad, just kind of embarrassing next to Google's twice-as-large share.

Finally, we arrive at something shameful. To quantify Bing's share, Opera had to consider an extra place to the right of the decimal point. The final number: 0.03 percent, which is one three-hundredth of Google's share.

Google hasn't quite taken over the world, however. Jon von Tetzchner, Opera's cofounder, said in a statement, "While Google performs well globally, we also see several local search engines, such as Yandex in Russia and Ukraine, and Baidu in China, have impressive results in their key markets."

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Film Fest PSA winners announced

The winners of a first-time, one-week competition that challenged teams of filmmakers to write, shoot and edit public service announcements for Big Sisters of Rhode Island and Sensational Child have been announced.

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