Windows 8.x breaks 10 percent, Internet Explorer 11 makes a splash

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Net Market Share

In 2013, Internet Explorer reversed some of its historic losses, Google released Chrome for Android, and Windows 8 surpassed OS X and Windows Vista to become the third most widely used desktop operating system.

Net Market Share

Net Market Share

Compared to last month, Internet Explorer actually fell slightly, declining by 0.45 points. Firefox, Safari, and Opera also fell, down 0.19, 0.08, and 0.06 points, respectively. The month's winner was Chrome, which picked up 0.78 points.

Over the course of the entire year, Internet Explorer was up 3.14 points on 2012. Firefox was down 1.47 points. Chrome was also down by 1.82 points. Safari rose 0.58 points.

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NL'er zet 518 kilo afval aan straat

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[Time Published December 14, 2013 at 11:04PM]

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De hoeveelheid huisafval die Nederlanders produceren, is vorig jaar opnieuw afgenomen. Per inwoner werd in 2012 518 kilo huisvuil aan de straat gezet, blijkt uit cijfers van het CBS.

De hoeveelheid huisvuil per inwoner daalt al jaren. In 2010 en 2011 was het 535 kilo. De grootste hoeveelheid kregen de verbrandingsovens in 2000 te verwerken; toen leverde een inwoner gemiddeld 562 kilo.

Opvallend is dat de afvalproductie afneemt sinds het begin van de economische crisis in 2008. In Hengelo zetten bewoners bijvoorbeeld vorig jaar 490 kilo afval aan de straat, tegen 629 kilo voor de crisis. In Venlo produceerden bewoners 140 kilo minder dan in 2008 en in Opmeer 88 kilo minder.

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Op de Waddeneilanden wordt het meeste huisafval per inwoner geproduceerd. Zo komt Vlieland op 1371 kilo per inwoner, Terschelling op 882 kilo en Texel op 700. Van Ameland en Schiermonnikoog zijn geen gegevens beschikbaar. Waarschijnlijk hebben de cijfers te maken met het grote aantal toeristen op de eilanden, waar relatief weinig mensen wonen.

De grote steden blijven onder het gemiddelde. Zo wordt in Amsterdam 437 kilo per inwoner opgehaald en in Den Haag en Utrecht iets minder dan 460 kilo.

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Windows 8.1′s web use doubles shortly after launch

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[Time Published November 02, 2013 at 12:56PM]

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Web traffic doesn’t directly translate to market share, but it’s handy for tracking the adoption of brand new operating systems — take Windows 8.1, for example. Net Applications notes that Microsoft’s new OS nearly doubled in web share upon its official launch in October, climbing to 1.7 percent. Clearly, a lot of web surfers had been waiting to upgrade. As you might imagine, though, the software took share from its predecessor as customers either replaced PCs or downloaded the free update. Windows 8 declined for the first time ever, falling half a point to 7.5 percent; the two 8.x revisions gained 0.4 points when put together, but Windows as a whole dipped slightly to 90.7 percent.

Redmond wasn’t the only one releasing a new platform, of course. Apple’s OS X Mavericks accounted for more than 0.8 percent of web traffic last month, or enough to put it past Tiger and Leopard almost overnight. While the overall Mac platform only grew by a tiny amount to hit 7.7 percent of web use, we doubt that the crew at 1 Infinite Loop is complaining. It’s not clear how the dueling Apple and Microsoft upgrades will compare in the long run, but you can check the historical trends both after the break and at the source link.

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Stats suggest plastic iPhone 5c is catching up with its prettier sibling

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[Time Published October 23, 2013 at 02:32AM]

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After a couple of high-profile reports about how the plastic iPhone isn’t faring too well in the laser-cut shadow of the iPhone 5s, here’s a bit of evidence to the contrary. It comes courtesy of stat collectors at an app marketing platform called Localytics, who claim they’ve spotted a distinct upwards trend in the number of Americans using a 5c relative to a 5s. Whereas usage of the flagship metal iPhone was 3.4x higher during the launch weekend, this ratio has drifted down to 1.9x one month later, suggesting that a secondary wave of not-so-early adopters is happy to give the cheaper model a bit more consideration. Of course, these ratios don’t tell us anything about absolute sales figures for either handset — we’ll have to wait on first-hand info from carriers or from Apple itself (perhaps as part of today’s event) before we know those.

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Google-Backed File-Sharing Service Spreads Malware

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[Time Published October 14, 2013 at 06:55PM]

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To the Western public the name Xunlei might not ring any immediate bells, but in China its software is used by hundreds of millions of people every month.

Previously the company’s BitTorrent client was crowned the most used BitTorrent software in the world, beating uTorrent and several other popular clients.

Xunlei’s website offers a searchable index of billions of media files which users can download with the proprietary Xunlei software. The company is partly owned by Google and in recent years has evolved into the leading player in the online file-sharing space.

Recently, however, the company ran into trouble when people spotted suspicious software on their systems signed with a Xunlei security certificate. A thorough investigation from ESET now reveals that Xunlei the company has been spreading malware to Windows and Android users.

While it’s unclear how the application is distributed, the windows installer “INPEnhSetup.exe” that spreads the suspicious files is directly connected to the Chinese file-sharing giant. Besides the security certificate, the application also calls home to the Xunlei-owned domain kankan.com

Once the “dropper” is installed it loads an Office plugin which among other things downloads an Android application. This application is then installed on all Android devices that are connected to the computer, which subsequently installs several other seemingly harmless applications.

ESET looked at all the technical details of the software distributed by Xunlei and has categorized the application as a malicious program under the name Win32/Kankan.

“The use of a fake Office plugin to gain persistence, the ability to silently install Android applications, and the backdoor functionalities, confirm the validity of the concerns of Chinese users and explains why ESET detects this program as malicious, under the name Win32/Kankan,” ESET’s Joan Calvet writes.

“There are still some open questions, like the original infection vector and the exact reason the Android applications were installed,” he adds.

While it remains unclear whether Xunlei’s popular BitTorrent client was used to spread the malware, the company has admitted that its employees were responsible for the development and distribution of the suspicious software.

During a press conference Xunlei apologized for their mistakes. The company said that the personnel responsible were acting without permission and have since been fired.

For affected users Xunlei has released an uninstaller and according to ESET the number of infections has dropped significantly since its release, as can be seen in the graph below.


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WhatsApp verwerkt 31 miljard berichten per dag

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[Time Published September 26, 2013 at 12:51AM]

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