Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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Microsoft’s mobile share plummets – last chance with Nokia partnership?

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 11:20 PM PDT


Categories: VISTA.BLORGE

Microsoft's mobile smartphone share continues to drop this year despite the release of Windows Phone 7. According to reports the drop is significant enough to have some questioning the value in investing in this money pit. Earlier this year comScore estimated that Microsoft's mobile market share dropped to as low as 8 percent in the [...]

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New Apple headquarters is ugly, cultish

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 04:08 PM PDT


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

Praise Steve Jobs, Heaven on Earth has finally arrived in the form of Apple Campus 2 in Cupertino, California. The cult of Apple has a new headquarters, an ugly one at that. Having outgrown its its present headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop (because it’s no longer the underdog all you fanboys still wish it was), [...]

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Google buying 17K patents, gets a phone maker, too

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 11:40 AM PDT


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

I could be wrong, but rather imagine CEO Larry Page surveyed the deteriorating litigation situation facing his company a few weeks back and said, “Screw this, we need to fix it now.” Although it’s hard to tell exactly how the dust will settle, expect to see Apple, Microsoft et al to announce cross licensing deals [...]

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Google search ‘failure’ claims raise questions

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 11:40 AM PDT


Categories: TECH.BLORGE

Newly published statistics appear to show Google is considerably less accurate than its major rivals. But it’s unclear whether other factors may have influenced the results. The data comes from Experian Hitwise, alongside its main market share figures that show of all US searches in July, 66.05 percent were on Google, 15.07 percent on Yahoo [...]

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