Harry McCracken on Technologizer:
the TouchPad fire sale–which probably appealed more to bargain-hunting gadget nerds than the masses–is such a bizarre event that it just doesn’t tell us that much about the potential market for very low-cost tablets.
Ian Betteridge puts it even more succinctly:
Nothing.
Saling silang published a report on the state of “social media” in Indonesia for the first half of 2011 which you can see on Slideshare. Some of the highlights with regards to Twitter:
Great breakdown of Google’s patent post by Harry McCracken.
It is fairly amazing that one poorly constructed post has managed to turn Google from a sympathetic figure in all of this into a jackass/crybaby hybrid.
I think the idea behind the post was right, it’s just that Google tried to be specific without being specific enough (and without vetting at least one crucial thing). Perhaps they should have taken the most general, common-sense approach and simply taken a stand against bullshit patents.
Of course, they can’t really do that with a straight face while they’re trying to buy 8,800 new ones at the same time.
The second time today TechCrunch broke the news. This time it’s the beleaguered Research In Motion whose smartphone business is under serious threat from Apple and Google. The Canadian company is letting 2000 of its employees go, that’s just over 10 percent of its workforce. It also pushes out one COO, and shuffles the others. Balsillie and Lazaridis remain.
RIM streamlines the company, consolidates executive positions
the question now isn’t whether social media can start a revolution, but whether dictators believe it can.
badass.
Reshared this from G+, anyone know where it came from originally? I found this but he got it from Skype
So this was announced earlier today in Singapore. Nokia’s upcoming N9, powered by a combination of MeeGo and Maemo software projects that mostly got canned on the company’s way to embrace Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform. Unfortunately the phone is not yet available to test or preview, let alone to buy.
I think a lot of people would be interested in this. Time will tell if the final product will be as smooth and seamless as Apple’s iPhone with iOS or if it will be stuttery and clunky like the current Symbian on the N8. At a glance the interface reminds me of Windows Phone 7 mixed with Android, and that’s not a bad thing.Being a fan of Windows Phone 7, I can’t wait to see how this compares with Nokia’s upcoming WP7 phones.
You can check out a more detailed look at This Is My Next.
Indeed, a time may soon come when Apple’s cash will be worth more than the entire phone industry.
Software piracy in Indonesia went up in 2010 according to a study by IDC. The research claimed a record 87 percent of applications installed on computers in Indonesia are pirated.
This 1 percent increase over 2009 figures actually caused a significant increase in monetary losses to software companies from $886 million to $1.32 billion. In 2003 the losses amounted to a relatively small $157 million.
“It’s a point of sales problem. It’s an expertise problem. It’s a marketing problem to consumers. It’s a price point problem,“ he reportedly said, adding: "And it’s a software richness of content problem.” – Jen-Hsun Huang
Honeycomb tablets are chock full of problems. In the meantime, iPads continue to dominate tablet sales, mindshare, and discussions despite its lack of availability.
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