According to ComScore – Internet market research company, Google’s Adriod OS is eating in to Microsoft and Apple’s mobile market share, with about 9% growth in the last three months itself. While, overall smartphone users have grown to about 21%.

The growth was largely fuelled by the $100 million marketing campaign, which allowed verizon to sell thousands of Motorola Droids during the holidays. While, RIM (Research In Motion), the company behind BlackBerry, managed only a 1.3 percent increase in its smartphone share, while apple say a 0.1 percent drop in market share.

The growth of android is also be touted due to the increased interest in application development for the platform, which unlike Apple’s App Store is less restricting.

To a luck few Apple will give a sneak preview of the iPhone OS 4.0 on April 8th, while the update is only slated for release later this year, the rumor mills are already churning on the possible features this update will carry.

Multi-tasking being the heavily bet upon feature, but we’ll just have to wait and see if apples fan’s lucky this time round. Apple has been avoiding the multi-tasking feature since the launch of the iPhone, citing concerns on decrease in performance  with multiple apps running in the background, the major issue that has bugged windows mobile version for years . If you have been following the timeline of the iPhone, the company avoided the copy-paste feature for more than a year before rolling it out, and has showed absolutely no interest in integrating Flash, apart from the initial talk with Adobe.

For now, it’s just wait and see

If you are among the few that actually use the option of using Linux on your Play Station 3, here’s some bad news for you, Don’t update the PS3 firmware!

Thursday, Sony will release it is latest firmware for the PS3 console – version 3.21. However, the company has decided to remove the option of allowing it’s users to install third-party operating systems.

According to sources the update will also remove existing operating systems and related data, so make sure that you backup any data that you might have save before you update (that is, if you have actually used the system after installing it)

The company states that this decision was taken due to security threats (is it security threat or threat that some hackers have finally managed to mod the PS3, we wonder!)

Though Sony says that it is not necessary to update the firmware. But not upgrading your PS3 would mean that you loose access to PlayStation Network and playback of games and Blu-ray movies that require the new software. The console will also stop playing copy-protected content from media servers. (How’s that for choice )

We have all had our tryst with Internet Explorer and we have all been bugged, the downfall of the dominant browser was evident with rise of more efficient and supposedly secure browsers (read Firefox).

The statistics haven’t been to kind on Internet Explorer with the browser loosing about 49% market share (according to StatCounter) in a country like India (where new technology adoption is relatively slow), this despite the fact that the country does not have regulations unlike European Union! (If you remember the, it is mandatory for Microsoft to allow users choose their web browser during installation of it’s new operating system).

Internet Explorer’s share worldwide is now only about 55%. While Firefox is steady gaining at 31% and Chrome is growing at 7%. Apple still needs to learn something from it’s rivals, where browsers are concerned with it capturing only 4% of the market share.

Interestingly, one of the reason cited for the change is slow speed, other than the know security issue with Internet Explorer.