Top 10 articles: Google Street View and Microsoft IE9

This week’s most popular story with V3.co.uk readers is a report damning Google’s Street View as an intrusive service that is more useful to burglars than the general public.

Google has continued its run of recent bad news with two other appearances in our top 10. Estimates put sales of Google’s Nexus One Android handset at 135,000 in its first 74 days, a very weak showing compared to the iPhone and Motorola Droid (another Android device, aka the Milestone in the UK), which both shifted around one million units on their debuts.

Adding to its woes, for the first time since 2007 Google has been knocked off the top spot for most visited web site in the US by Facebook, showing it still has some catching up to do in the social networking arena.

Elsewhere, Microsoft garnered attention at Mix 2010 with a sneak peek at Internet Explorer 9 and the controversial news that its next-gen browser won’t be supporting Windows XP.

Also popular was our story and video of the unveiling of the latest version of Khronos Group’s OpenGL graphics standard at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Street View slammed as 'service for burglars'
New report finds most UK citizens are against the technology

Microsoft launches IE9 platform preview
New browser features improved support for HTML5

Khronos Group publishes OpenGL 4.0 specs
Version 4.0 "levels the playing field" with DirectX 11, says group

Nexus One moves to AT&T amid reports of slow sales
Handset sales pale in comparison to iPhone and Droid

No XP support for IE9, says Microsoft
Company says new browser will not work with ageing OS

Facebook urges users to avoid rogue apps
Company is "aggressively disabling" the bogus applications

Microsoft admits security update errors
Redmond issues workaround for "cosmetic issue"

GDC 2010: Khronos Group discusses OpenGL 4
New graphics standard explained

Microsoft details Windows Phone 7 features
Surprise as Microsoft reveals there will be no multi-tasking or cut and paste functions

Facebook ousts Google as most popular web site
Google felled after three years at the top