Archive for the ‘Digital Lifestyle’ Category
Monday, October 27th, 2008
Found via TechCrunch, Google keeps producing great stuff, and "organizing World's information" for us. Google Earth for iPhone (and iPod Touch) puts literally the entire blue planet on your handset. Enriched by links to Panoramio and Wikipedia, and fully using the iPhone user experience, these apps will soon make GPS ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
While Nokia posted a 30.5% drop in earnings in the quarter ending on 30 September, Steve Jobs proudly announced to analysts that 6.9 million 3G iPhone units were sold in the same quarter, outselling even RIM's Blackberry 6.1 million units.
While Nokia blames price cutting for their profit decline, Apple says ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Al Ries and Jack Trout wrote it in many of their marketing best-sellers: "In the long run, every market becomes a two horse race". Jack Welch, legend ex-CEO of GE, made popular his rule of closing every business unit where GE was not number one or number two.
Mobile handsets market ...
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
A few days ago, Sheraton announced the results of a survey they commissioned on the work habits of today's professionals. Some of the findings:
[...] the vast majority of people (84%) say they check their PDA's just before going to bed and as soon as they wake up, 85% say they sneak ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
LG launched a few months ago the LG HB620T, a mobile phone that includes a TV tuner for DVB-T, the most extended standard for terrestrial digital TV. Many analysts predict that this kind of phones will kill broadcast mobile TV standards such as DVB-H/SH or proprietary MediaFlo. Why do you ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
A funny, different view of the iPhone found though webtown. Although the iPhone only outperforms the Stone in the touchscreen, why does it still rock?
Leave aside the iconic cool factor (which matters a lot). It is not about the number of features, but about having the key features with a ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Apple App Store and Android App Market are bringing more spotlight than ever to the applications for mobile handsets. Though a vast number of applications already exist for Windows Mobile, Blackberry or Symbian, developers are working hard to write the next killer app on the iPhone and Android platform.
What ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Yesterday was a great day for America as T-Mobile launched the awaited first Android phone. Plenty of coverage for the announcement in NYC, but is the G1 up to the expectations?
On the good side: the anticipated powerful processor with touchscreen, qwerty keyboard, camera, GPS and full integration with Google applications ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
The news of the day is that SanDisk has just launched SlotMusic. The memory chip maker will distribute music from the four major labels on microSD cards. Music tracks will be encoded in MP3 at 320Kbps, DRM-free and pre-loaded on a 1GB microSD card that will sell for $7-$10.
Blogs unanimously ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Gartner published a few days ago their assessment of the Smartphone market in Q2 2008. These are the highlights by handset maker:
Smartphone market grew 15.7% compared to last year.
Nokia remains the number one vendor, but it is losing market share from 50.8% in 2007 to 47.5% in 2008.
RIM is the ...
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