On January 24th at 5PM EST, Apple is scheduled to release their Q1 earnings report after the end of the trading day. Analyst expectations are up after a strong holiday season, despite a disappointing Q4. Apple is projected to report revenues of $38.73 per share and earnings per share of $9.97 – buoyed by robust sales of both the iPhone and iPad.
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Ice Cream Sandwich Slowly Enters Market; New OS Seen on .4% of Android Web Traffic
Ice Cream Sandwich, the most recent dessert themed version of the Android Operating System (OS), was made available to the public on November 12th, 2011. It is unlike any Android OS before it, in that it incorporates aspects of Gingerbread and Honeycomb into a single version that can run on both tablets and smartphones. However, due to delay, it wasn’t until much later (on December 15th) that the OS saw its first real foray into the markets on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
SOPA Black Out Day Has Measurable Effect on Web Traffic and Washington
Yesterday, January 18th 2012, marked a day of solidarity in both online and offline protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) – and by all measures, it was a success.
Over 75,000 domains participated in the protest, with major sites such as Wikipedia, Reddit, and Craigslist blacking out their content entirely. Google joined the ranks by blacking out their logo, and generating 4.5 million signatures on an anti-SOPA petition made available via a link on its homepage.
iPad Still Leads Tablet Market for Web Traffic; How Does the Competition Stack Up?
Tablets have become one of the hottest and most popular new technologies among consumers over the last few years, with signs that the market will continue to grow in 2012 and beyond.
2012 Republican Primaries: Ron Paul Leads Web Searches, Indicative of His Voter Demographic?
With Tuesday being the first official primary of the 2012 season, Chitika Insights revisited the web popularity of top GOP candidates leading up to New Hampshire’s primary. While Romney leads in the polls, his web presence is trumped by Ron Paul and his popularity among the youth vote.
Firefox 9 Experiences Slow Adoption Rate After Troubled Launch
Coverage on Mozilla’s patch to cover its latest browser version, Firefox 9 has clouded market scrutiny of its lack of success till date. Firefox 9 has only captured 5.6% of the Firefox market more than a week after release. In stark contrast, versions 6 and 8 caught on fire with users; representing 45% and 36% of Firefox traffic within a week, respectively.
Tablet Traffic Spikes on Holiday: Kindle Fire Jumps 122%, Blackberry Playbook by 50%
The holiday season may not have come with peace on earth. Goodwill towards our fellow people, maybe. But the striking boost in tablet use it saw was definitely undeniable.
Brewing Browser Battle for Market Share Evident in HTML5 Compatibility
The more advanced browsers, Chrome, Firefox and Safari, are fighting it out to support HTML5 as fully as possible. We find more than 95% of these browers’ users are on versions that support most features of HTML5. Next stop for these browsers is to ensure such compatibility on their mobile device specific browsers as well.
Traffic for Google+ on the Rise Along with User Count
Chitika Insights has covered the heavily publicized launch of Google+ amidst a variety of reported statistics, some which stated that Google+ hosted a user base comprised of over 40 Million people, others which described the fledgling social network as nothing more than a ghost town. Initially, traffic on Google+ saw a rapid rate of growth, but was accompanied by a period of significant decline. Since then, Chitika Insights has been regularly keeping tabs on the condition of Google+, in order to determine the relative success of the social network.
Google Strikes New Deal With Mozilla Solidifying Partnership Through 2014
After a long period of uncertainty, today Mozilla announced that they have renewed their search deal with Google, signing an agreement to keep Google as the default search engine in their Firefox browser for at least three more years.