Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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Microsoft expand Azure toolset to include competitors – iPhone and Android

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Microsoft's cloud computing solution, Azure will get a massive update to support platforms outside Windows Phone 7. According to reports Microsoft will be building toolsets to support the iPhone and Android platform. Its no secret that Microsoft is locking horns to take a piece of Google and Apple's pie in the mobile OS arena with [...]

Twitter breaks super-injunction silence

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Rumors abound on Twitter over which celebrities have sought and been granted super-injunctions to keep their names out of the newspapers. Which begs several legal questions I’m far too confused to know the answers to. For those not aware of what super-injunctions are, they’re hugely powerful gagging orders which not only shield the details of [...]

Android and iPhone continue to erode Blackberry sales

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The original modern smartphone (that would be the iPhone) and the army of look-alikes (that would be Android) continue to eat away at the sales of RIM Blackberry phones. Where will it end? RIM is the victim of [...]

Even iPhone 3GS outsells most Android phones

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Nokia sells a lot of “smartphones,” but no one questions their fade to irrelevance. Google’s Android rabble also collectively also generates a lot of units. However, Apple’s iPhone 3GS, which was first shown to the world more than two years ago, outsells the great majority of Android devices, including the newest models. Apple’s [...] Related [...]

iPad scalping leads to violence

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A destructive scuffle outside an Apple store in Beijing has uncovered an important cultural lesson: a capitalistic free market is one thing, but cutting in line is quite another. There have been several reports of the incident, with some points conflicting one another (as tends to happen with eyewitness accounts.) The most commonly agreed points [...]

Samsung to ship 75-inch LED TV

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Samsung has just announced that they will begin shipping a premium 75-inch LED backlit television soon, making it the largest television of its kind available anywhere in the world. Of course, no one is asking why anyone needs a 75-inch LED television, and instead are just trumpeting that it is the biggest, which sounds a [...]