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[Steve V] I've got a few thoughts about Android and the mobile computing market in general. I think my opinion is founded on a good understanding of technology and business (the old MBA market-niche-strategy studies come in here).

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[Silicon Alley Insider: iPhone] Microsoft's Real Problem: The Second Coming of Apple: (And no, I don't buy the argument that smartphones will somehow render all other computing platforms obsolete anytime in the near future.) Microsoft is well-positioned to sell Windows on a whole lot of those new machines. Even if Windows sales growth in the U.S. dropped to zero because of massive defections to Mac/Linux far beyond anything we've yet seen (from the numbers Blodget cited U.S. Windows growth is still in the millions of units on an annual basis) the Windows client business would still be in good shape to deliver consistent double-digit annual growth worldwide.

[Latest News from Change Leadership Journal] Directed Electronics (DEIX) Announces Parent Company Name Change ...: Minarik, President and CEO since 2001, will continue to serve as the President and CEO of the parent company, DEI Holdings, and will continue to have overall responsibility for the entire company, which currently includes Polk Audio, Definitive Technology, Directed Canada, and the Vista, CA based mobile electronics business, which will continue to do business under the "Directed Electronics" name.

[Mobility Site] 30 Reasons Windows Mobile is Superior to iPhone | Mobility Site: And just to clear something up, I have no desire to get an iphone, I’m patiently waiting for someone to release a Windows Mobile phone that I can consider an upgrade from my Dell x51v (I’m hoping the Xperia is as good as it looks, and even that can do every item on your list). I’m glad the iphone came out though, made Microsoft realize how important the user interface is.

[Low End Mac] Apple Drops iPhone NDA, Defecting to Android, Auto Performance ...: The app's key features include a familiar Finder-like file browser,prominent display of available space, use of Bonjour and WebDAV (likeiDisk) for easy connection, optional password protection, public folderfor guest access, extensive inline Help with detailed and simpleinstructions, controls to prevent, or to delay, iPhone auto-lock, MacOS X applications displayed with their own icons in file browser andcolor-coded formatting of source code files, fast-scrolling featuresand pinch-to-zoom ability in the file browser to reveal more or lessfile information.

[Latest News from iPhone Developer's Journal] New Testing Approaches for Mobile Phone Quality | iPhone ...: One passive monitoring approach is to deploy software agents on handsets to measure quality using measurement standards like a Mean Opinion Score (MOS), R-factor, echo, and jitter. But, agent technology requires handset manufacturers to install the operator's software on every device they ship.

[Latest News from Apache Web Server Journal] Hippo Appoints Lars Peters as Executive Vice President North ...: Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer, CEO of Hippo said, “Lars has the perfect mix of operational knowledge, management experience, enthusiasm and drive. We have very ambitious plans for the North American market, where we are already seeing a great demand for our open source enterprise content management and portal software, especially in an economic climate where businesses are looking to lower operational costs, without large up front investments.

[counternotions] Who can beat iPhone 2.0? « counternotions: It turned out that what was broken was AT&T, insofar as the website used for opening the accounts and initializing the devices has the mumps or the measles or the Boogie Woogie Flu or something, and under the terms of the five-year contract with Apple, the site is the responsibility of AT&T, which, according to the Cupertine monks and nuns, has ignored the problem for weeks. So I went over to Verizon, and asked them about the problem, and the manager there, a neighbor friend of my sister’s, told me that they get a lot of iPhone refugees and that it would be throwing good money after bad to spend still more money on WiFi just to keep a device meant for a younger demographic cohort for whom it’s meant to serve as a kind of prosthesis of neverending jabber and amusement.

[GottaBeMobile.com] MindJet Releases MindManager 8, GBM Is Giving Away One Free ...: This means that I can have all the information for my presentation in one place (because of MindManajer’s great integration with Microsoft Office) and present without any hiccups, need to switch to any other program, and give my presentation from any computer.

[RoughlyDrafted Magazine] A Product Transition: Giving MacBooks the iPhone Touch ...: That’s why my earlier suggestion (echoed by others here and by some of the tech media) about replacing the trackpad and keyboard area with a MultiTouch display smaller than the main display, but larger than the iPhone’s display might NOT be such a good idea, and why Dan’s proposition seems more realistic. His guess would have a much lower risk of cannibalizing iPhone/iPod touch sales because the MultiTouch screen replacing the trackpad would be the same size used in the iPhone/iPod touch.

[Tracy and Matt's Blog] HTC TyTN II review: For anyone interested in Geocaching, Cachemate works brilliantly, allowing nearest 500 caches to a given postcode to be downloaded to PDA, GPS compass guiding you to cache, then when found, instant linked access to geocaching.com website for logging - so simple.

[The "Meta" Internet: The genesis of a "virtual" Silicon Valleys leveraging the power of the Internet.] Public Questions and Answers about this subject posted on LinkedIn ...: Public Questions and Answers about this subject posted on LinkedIn (Public Blog on LinkedIn) .... brainstorming on the subject - if you are asking everybody to trust a vendor or any national organisation to incorporate a trusted computing identifier, it will fail due to mistrust. .... What I wouldn’t give to be able to sort my email, whilst driving to work, using my mobile phone to communicate with the mail server”¦ Just a thought. Messages from Guy Lecky-Thompson (1): ...

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