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Worldwide browser market share, February 2010

Internet Explorer – 61.58%, Firefox – 24.23%, Chrome – 5.61%, Safari – 4.45%, Opera – 2.35%. Source: arstechnica.com

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Tech industry is getting better

Chips are used in all electronic devices thus their sale is and good indicator of the shape of the tech economy. According to the chip industry trade group AIA (Semiconductor Industry Association), global chip sales in December 2009 rose 29 percent from a year ago to $22.4 billion.

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Atom N470 Processor from Intel

Intel is going to officially release on Monday the latest Atom N470 processor. A new processor from Intel will bring faster performance and longer battery life to netbooks. The N470 chip processor will run at a speed of 1.83GHz. All Atom chips from Intel go into small, low-cost laptops called netbooks. Netbooks are designed to

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Windows Versions Share

According to a new data from quantcast.com, in January 2010 Windows versions share of web consumption is: Windows XP – 51.8%, Windows Vista – 37.4%, Windows 7 – 10.2%, Windows Other – 0.6%.

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Most popular websites in Internet

Web analytics firm Compete released data for the top 50 websites in the U.S. Most shopping sites recorded a large drop in unique visitors since December 2009, tax services and travel sites are seeing very high growth rates. A complete list of top 50 websites you can find here. Below a list of top 10

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Big money is back to Manhattan

NYTimes reports “The big money is back on Wall Street. Wall Street ’09 Bonuses Increase 17%.” Investment banks and securities firms paid employees in New York City about $20.3 billion in annual bonuses, that was up from $17.4 billion for 2008.

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600 Tweets Per Second

In 2008 we were creating 5,000 tweets a day, in 2008 it was 300,000 a day, then 35 million last year and today we generate 50 million tweets a day. It is 600 tweets per second. The company claims it excluded spam from the measure. Source: blog.twitter.com

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Twitter Phishing Attack

The phishing messages look like this: “Lol. this you?? http:// divinelink.net/?rid= http://twitter.verify.bzpharma.net /login.” Don’t click it. The link will bring you to a fake Twitter login webpage

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Google in Africa

Google constantly expands its online maps service. The Google Africa blog announced that the company is launching Maps domains for 30 countries across Africa. “Google Maps users can now find local businesses. This could be a burger place in Lagos, a garage in Kampala, a hairdresser in Accra or an airport shuttle in Dakar,” –

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Google, Facebook, then Yahoo

New data released by web analytics firm Compete.com shows that Facebook is the second most visited website in U.S. Google is still number one, third place belongs to Yahoo. Facebook’s traffic rose in January 2010 to 133.62 million visitors, Yahoo shrunk down to 132.00 million. Google’s US traffic grew by over 1 million visitors between

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