By Maximum PC |
Mozilla comments on what they got right in 2012. In terms of market share, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome have been trading blows, angling for the coveted second place title all year. Firefox has continued to decline, but loses on all sides are leveling out, and Chrome isn’t seeing the…
By Adriana Lee |
Did you know that headphones date back to 1919? According to this infographic from Denon (below), those old battery-powered radio headphones eventually gave way to cardboard versions in 1958, when full-spectrum sound gave the audiofile crowd a richer set of highs and lows to enjoy.…
By Adriana Lee |
While Europe might be less infatuated with mobile phones than they once were, it seems we Americans still can’t get enough, judging by a recent study from Lookout. The mobile security company contracted Harris Interactive to survey American smartphone owners about their “mobile mindset,” in…
By Adriana Lee |
Facebook is clearly sprinting toward the finish line, trying to monetize everything it can before the IPO. But that doesn’t mean it’s in a terrible spot right now. Nothing brings a point home like a good old infographic, so here’s one outlining some numbers and…
By Adriana Lee |
Internet security firm Lookout Mobile conducted a study recently, trying to shed light on when and where we typically lose our smartphones. The infographic below offers some interesting tidbits gleaned from the report. Turns out, it tends to happen during major holidays or festivals. That’s…
By Adriana Lee |
There’s nothing like a well-made infographic. It’s like charts and tables got together and had a baby, and somehow the kid turned out to be a creative, artistic genius. I don’t know who first came up with this visually compelling way to deliver loads of…
By Joey Davidson |
As March turns to April, Bungie.net has officially given up the game on keeping stats and hosting the Halo community. That work is now in the hands of 343 Industries and Microsoft. Bungie, of course, is moving on to other work and leaving the Halo franchise behind.…
By Adriana Lee |
Stuck with an employer whose idea of modern tech is an office-wide upgrade to Windows 98? Oof. It’s hard to spend all night drooling over the hottest devices when, by day, your corporate overlords make you use something with a pull-out antenna and a WAP…
By Adriana Lee |
Computers sure have come a long way since those first room-filled machines. The processing power we have now in our hot little smartphone-loving hands now would’ve been unimaginable in those times. The future looks even more startling. Did you know that super computers are expected…
By Joey Davidson |
According to the information in the infographic below, PC gaming is heating up while console gaming is cooling down. The folks at Ignite Game Technologies gathered data from a host of sources and made up a visual for each category of statistics. The result? We…
By Emily Price |
Pinterest has taken the web by storm, and hit 10 million monthly users faster than any other independent site in history. The site currently is close to 12 million unique monthly visitors, and 97% of the site’s Facebook fans are women. Visual marketing firm Lemon.ly…
By Sean P. Aune |
No matter how famous a logo is, chances are it hasn’t always looked exactly like you know it today, and there is a good chance it will change again some day in the future. The folks over at StockLogos took a look at the history of…
By Emily Price |
It’s hard to believe that Apple’s App Store is less than four years old. The store launched on July 10, 2008 with a mere 500 apps, with over 10 million apps being downloaded from the store during the first weekend (25% of those being free…
By Brandon Russell |
Nerds are just lonely, anti-social souls who stare at computer screens and would probably spontaneously combust if they ever interacted socially, right? Maybe for some, but for one AllThingsD employee named Drake, embracing his nerdiness can actually be kind of romantic. To express his love…
By Emily Price |
It’s Valentine’s Day, which means if you haven’t already picked up a gift for your sweetie, you better head to the store now. While gifts like flowers and candy are traditional, they’re also pretty predictable. To help Valentine’s Day shoppers steer away from the ordinary,…
By Emily Price |
Working at a tech website certainly makes those of us here at TechnoBuffalo prone to a little bit of workplace technology envy. A new survey suggests, however, that we’re not alone. 30% of people are actually envious about the technology that their colleagues have that…
By Emily Price |
3D televisions were all over the show floor this year at CES. While some of this year’s TVs require you wear glasses, others use a different technology and can be watched “glasses-free.” Both technologies are a little different than the traditional “3D glasses” technology with…
By Emily Price |
The first CES ever was held in 1967 in New York City. The pint-sized show only had 100 exhibitors, and was attended by a mere 17,500 people. Three years later, the show was the launchpad for the very first VCR, and in later years was…
By Adriana Lee |
So what can we learn from 2011? Well for one, according to this infographic, it seems people en masse absolutely do not like being hardwired. On the contrary, our affinity for sharing, streaming and being mobile has become a full-blown obsession. And why not? The…
By Emily Price |
All of us handle who we’re friends with on Facebook a little differently. I’m super-particular about who I accept friend requests from on the service, and to date have only unfriended two people ever. I have friends; however, who accept friend requests from anyone and…
By Sean P. Aune |
Minecraft seems to have come out of nowhere to become an Internet phenomenon overnight, but the journey it took was actually a little longer than that … but not by a whole lot. Full development of Minecraft started in June of 2010, and the game…
By Emily Price |
The word Geek originated in the 1500s, and at the time was considered to mean “fool.” Today, at least for may of us, the word has a much more positive connotation, but how did it get there? The guys at Flowtown made this infographic showing…
By Emily Price |
Thinking about picking up a tablet this holiday season? You’re certainly not alone. A whopping 90% of Americans want a tablet computer for doing everything from video chatting and taking pictures to reading books and watching TV shows. The guys at Web Pro News have…
By Emily Price |
I’m a self-proclaimed cell phone addict. I take my phone (and occasionally a few phones) with me wherever I go, and much to my friend’s dismay check email and Twitter pretty much constantly no matter where I am or what I’m doing. Looking around me…
