Nielsen said Google’s Android platform ran on 43 percent of smartphone shipments from July 2010 to December 2010; Apple iOS grabbed 26 percent, while RIM’s BlackBerry took 20 percent. – Google’s Android operating system continued to be the hit of the U.S.
smartphone world, accounting for 43 percent of smartphone shipments from July
2010 to December 2010.
Nielsen said Feb. 1 that Apple iOS was on 26 percent of smartphones
shipped over the last six months, whole Research in Motio…
Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile are all toiling away with 4G networks and products. But how many consumers know enough to care? New Nielsen research fuels the debate. – Despite the hullabaloo over 4G LTE networks at the 2011 Consumer Electronics
Show this week, new research from Nielsen shows Verizon, AT amp;T, Sprint and
T-Mobile are struggling to get the message of their 4G data networks across.
Nielsen surveyed more than 2,100 U.S.
adults and found one in f…
Android ran 40 percent of U.S. smartphones purchased in the six months leading up to November. However, Nielsen noted Apple remains the overall smartphone market leader. – Google’s Android operating system powered 40.8 percent of
smartphones purchased in the last six months, though Apple iOS led the United States in
consumer market share, according to the Nielsen Company.
Since June 2010, 27 percent of devices purchased ran iOS,
while 19 percent bought were Resear…
The report found the second-most popular use of consoles is for watching DVDs, most noticeably for the PlayStation 3. – As U.S. consumers eye a selection of video game consoles this
holiday season, their choices offer an increasing array of
entertainment features beyond traditional offline gaming, according to
a report from research firm Nielsen. While gaming remains at the
forefront of how users say they spend t…
Priscilla Presley is among the Hollywood stars remembering late comic actor Leslie Nielsen. The actor “died of complications of pneumonia surrounded by his lovely wife and dear friends at 5:34pm ET on Sunday.” “We are saddened by the passing of beloved actor Leslie Nielsen, probably best remembered as Lt. Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun [...]
Film fans are ending the Thanksgiving Weekend on a somber note. Actor/comedian Leslie Nielsen passed away of complications of pneumonia at a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Sunday. The Canadian-born star had been hospitalized for almost two weeks before his death, according to his nephew, Doug Nielsen, who confirmed news of [...]
Android exited the third quarter with 19 percent smartphone market share, with BlackBerry OS and Apple iOS grabbing 30 percent and 28 percent, respectively, Nielsen said. – Google’s Android operating system topped out at 19 percent market share for
the third quarter, while Apple iOS and BlackBerry are virtually tied for second
place, according to fresh stats from Nielsen.
Nielsen said Apple’s iPhone OS reached 28 percent share.
RIM BlackBerry OS, which just months…
A Nielsen survey finds two-thirds of Apple iPad owners have already downloaded a paid application. – The growing popularity of connected devices, in particular Apples
successful tablet computer, the iPad, is starting to change how
people consume media, a report from The Nielsen Company found. With
sales of these devices expected to be a bright spot in an otherwise
lackluster holiday shopping se…
Google Android smartphones outsold RIM’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iOS in 2010, said Nielsen. Lawsuits by Apple, Microsoft and Oracle are geared to check Android’s growth. – Android handsets have been the hottest selling smartphones in 2010,
comprising 32 percent of all smartphones sold, according to new statistics from The Nielsen Company.
Research In Motion’s BlackBerry platform and Apple’s iPhone trailed
Google’s platform from January 2010 through August 2010, wi…
Microsoft Bing busted Yahoo’s bubble in August, pulling ahead of its search-providing partner 13.9 percent to 13.1 percent. Combined, the companies sport 27 percent market share, Nielsen said. Google holds 65 percent. – The combination of Microsoft’s MSN,
Windows Live and Bing search properties helped Microsoft overtake Yahoo in
search for the first time ever in August, according to researcher Nielsen.
Microsoft’s properties tallied 13.9 percent of search volume last month,
compared with 13.1 percent for Yahoo,…
Gai Le Roy has been appointed VP Research – Audience Measurement, Asia Pacific with immediate effect
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Nielsen, on the eve of a RIM announcement, has found loyalty among U.S. BlackBerry users to be far lower than among Apple iPhone or Android users. Its message? RIM needs a hit on its hands. – Nielsen, the venerable ratings company, has a message for BlackBerry maker
Research In Motion.
In Nielsen-run surveys with U.S.
consumers regarding smartphone use, the company found Google’s Android
operating system to be the fastest growing in the last quarter faster even than
Apple iOS, runni…
Nielsen’s survey of 200,000 mobile Web users from June 2009 to June 2010 indicated that e-mail use devoured 41.6 percent of mobile Web users’ time. That’s a lot of messaging on Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android devices and RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones. – Social networking on Facebook, Twitter and other Websites
may dominate on the desktop, but time spent consuming e-mail rules the roost on
mobile devices in the United States, according to Nielsen.
A survey of 200,000 mobile Web users from June 2009 to
June 2010 indicated that e-mail use ate up 4…
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Nielsen said Internet users all over the world spent 22 percent of their time on social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other such Websites in April. The research firm found social network or blog sites are visited by three-quarters of consumers who visit the Web. This bodes well for advertisers and the free social networks trying to make money from their users’ rampant use of their walled gardens to trade and share links, photos, videos and other information. – Internet users all over the world spent 22 percent of
their time on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia and
other such Websites in April, according to new data from Nielsen.
The research firm found social network or blog sites are
visited by three-quarters of consumers…
Apple’s iPhone smartphone market share was 28 percent through the first quarter of 2010, more than tripling the 9 percent share garnered by Google’s Android platform in a budding smartphone war that is still lopsided. A June 4 Nielsen survey also found that of Android and iPhone users who would switch operating systems, the rate at which Android users would like to try an iPhone is twice as high as that of iPhone users who would try Android. – Apple’s iPhone smartphone market share was 28 percent through the first
quarter of 2010, more than tripling the 9 percent share garnered by Google’s
Android platform in a budding smartphone war that is still decidedly lopsided.
Apple, which is geared to launch iPhone 4.0 and its iAd platform at t…
Nielsen finds that consumers worldwide spent an average of more than 5.5 hours on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter in December, an 82 percent increase from December 2008 when users were spending an average of just over 3 hours per month on social networking sites. Facebook was the biggest recipient of user eyeballs, Nielsen reports; Twitter remained the fastest-growing social site, soaring from 2.7 million unique visitors in December 2008 to 18.1 million in December 2009. Of course, Google and the rest of the search market continued to grow.
– Are people spending too much time online? Statistics from The Nielsen Company
about social networking use and new numbers from ComScore on the explosion in
Web searches point to an explosion in Web use toward the end of 2009, up
significantly from one year ago.
Nielsen found that consumers world…
The Apple 3G iPhone has more U.S. subscribers than any other mobile phone in the United States, according to Nielsen. The BlackBerry 8300 finished behind it, followed by the Motorola RAZR V3. The most visited mobile Internet site was Google, and the most accessed brand was Yahoo.
– The Apple iPhone 3G is the most-used mobile phone in the
United States, according to Dec. 21 data published on the blog of the Nielsen Company, which
specializes in marketing and media information. Nielsen shows the “Apple
3G iPhone,” by which it presumably means the iPhone 3G, to own 4 percent
…
