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60,000 Droids a Day Keep the Apple Away

February 22, 2010 – 6:10 am

Right now it seems every company wants to build an iPhone app. Yet given that 60,000 Android phones ship every day, one has to wonder how much longer Apple will have a lock on shiny object syndrome du jour (image by Andrew Mason).
That’s roughly 5.4 million a quarter, and the numbers continue accelerating [...]

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Social Media To The Rescue

January 13, 2010 – 1:27 pm

With all the buzz over the earthquakes in Haiti it seems that real time search combined with social networks are making strides in the relief efforts. Yesterday evening I watched traditional media coverage of the large search and rescue operations on standby while online Twitter and Facebook covered the efforts and situation that were happening [...]

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The Battle for the Mobile Internet Begins

December 28, 2009 – 8:10 am

War was declared a long time ago, but now the battle finally begins in earnest.  2010 marks the year that Google Android and its many manufacturer and carrier partners took on Apple and its exclusive wireless carriers. The final prize?  The primary determinant of the third web boom, the mobile Internet.
All the other handset [...]

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Don’t Think – Live Your Questions

December 9, 2009 – 3:00 pm

I am the ultimate perpetual kid, fascinated by how things work and known to take anything apart especially if it isn’t broken (yet). If you’ve followed my posts in the past, you know that I am obsessed with the concept of search. Thankfully, I’m not the only one. Apparently the engineers at Google are dedicated [...]

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