Top 10 articles: Google Street View and Microsoft IE9

V3.co.uk readers' most popular stories from 13 - 19 March

V3.co.uk, 19 Mar 2010

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.

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