Tag: RANKINGS

2009 has not been kind to Apple. According to a new report, Mac sales have taken a hit in the early months of 2009, and now Apple has slipped to number two in terms of computer reliability. RescueCom, a computer support hotline, factors both the number of service calls made to its hotline and a company's market share before delivering its quarterly computer reliability report. This quarter saw ...

No matter how dire Motorola's situation may be, it's still been able to cling to one last title keeping it firmly entrenched in the ranks of the world's mobile manufacturing elite: US phone sales. For years, Motorola has ridden the RAZR gravy train to success on its home turf more than any other, keeping more globally relevant rivals like Nokia and LG at bay. No longer, though -- Samsung has ...

The Communications Workers of America recently released a survey of national broadband speeds and penetration and, perhaps not surprisingly, Alaska was ranked dead last in Internet speed. The average download speed across the state was a miserly 0.8 megabits per second (mbps), barely fast enough to stream a YouTube video without hiccups. By comparison, the fastest average speeds in the rest of ...

Proving once again that it's always the smiley-faced, rosey-cheeked cherub that has the human skeletons in its closet, sunshine-and-rainbow-drenched video game purveyor Nintendo has come in dead last in a ranking of the world's most eco-friendly electronics companies. The quarterly "Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics" ranks 18 electronics firms by how green their production processes and ...

Massholes. They think they're the best at everything. And oh, wait -- they are! The Smartest State has lots of "best" titles, between the Red Sox, Harvard, and now (again), technology. Since 2002, the Santa-Monica-based Milken institute has been releasing reports on the technological state of affairs. That is, the institute ranks states based on criteria like tech-savviness of workers, ...

When it comes to online social networks, MySpace has long been the proverbial 800-pound gorilla. Lately that's been changing, with Facebook quickly bulking up and catching its rival, signing up far more people each month than MySpace. As of two months ago, the 'Book (founded by Marc Zuckerberg, pictured) finally surpassed its rival, becoming the most visited social network in the world. MySpace ...

Social networking is one of the biggest Internet phenomenons of the last few years, and it's still MySpace that dominates the online social networking landscape, according to Web measurement firm Hitwise. As reported in ReadWriteWeb, MySpace takes the top traffic prize with 73.82 percent of all social networking traffic. Facebook only garners 14.8 percent of social networking traffic. Other sites ...