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iPad Magic
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Microsoft Taketh Away
Summarizing the new Windows Phone 7 Series: Funny how when iPhone came out and Ballmer laughed his head off, these were the “power” features that most pointed to in WinMo that made the iPhone a “toy”. Maybe if people…
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Smartphones nearly a third of all phones sold in fourth quarter
smartphones made up 31 percent of the mobile device market in the fourth quarter, up from 23 percent in the last quarter of 2008 link: Smartphones: Not Just for The Young and Hip – CNBC 40% by end of 2010? 50% by end of…
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Analysts scrambling to update models as app download rates explode
Analysts at Yankee Group recently boosted their forecasts for what they call a mobile app “gold rush,” saying that revenue from U.S. downloads alone would reach nearly $1.6 billion in 2010 and would hit $11 billion in…
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No copy/paste in Windows Phone 7 Series
Todd Brix from Microsoft is saying the lack of copy/paste is by design link: Windows Phone Thoughts: Windows phone 7 Will Lack Copy & Paste: Please Proceed With Your Screaming and Yelling It’s amazing how precisely…
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Google thinks trying to predict the stock market is illegal
There are many, many things that Google could do, that we chose not to do… One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try to predict the stock market. And then we decided it was illegal. link:…
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Nexus One: 135k Units Sold
Despite the fact that the Google Nexus One is the most advanced Android handset to date, and enjoyed substantial buzz leading up to its release, the launch has been overshadowed by lower than expected sales. link:…
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Feb NPD: Macs up 43%, iPods up 10%
AppleInsider | February Mac sales up 43%, Apple on track for 2.9M in quarter This is shaping up to be a bigger blow-out than the usual blow-outs.
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Tim Bray hates the idea that hardware guys can kick software guys around
Tim Bray Throws His Hat Into The Android Ring Because He Hates The iPhone Sorry Tim, get used to it. Your idea that software writers should have the right to put their software on anybody’s hardware is coming to an end.…
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7000 companies were created just to make apps
An estimated one in five iPhone developers are companies founded specifically to create applications for the iPhone, according to the latest Flurry Smartphone Industry Pulse survey. That represents the second-largest…