An interesting article in USA Today gives us some interesting stats about smart phones and stats. First off, 30% of all phones in the use in the US now are internet connected “smart phones” . 19% of users have downloaded some sort of travel related App. Most importantly, 47% of travelers have used their phone [...]

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The Apple App Store has apparently reached a significant milestone, with now more than 250,000 apps in store, according to this report in Fortune (and to be fair, they are quoting yet another site to get to that number). However, that number may include “versions” of an app made for a different location or city, [...]

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I found this story over at Reuters about the company ISuppli that has looked into the tablet market, and has decided (somehow) that no matter what happens, Apple will continue to dominate the tablet marketplace. The most telling quote from the story is that they firm doubts that anyone will match the “overall performance experience” [...]

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The Apple Iphone4 has only been out for a very short amount of time, and already problems are cropping up. One of the strangest is reception problems, because of the way the integrated antenna is put in the phone. It seems that if users hold the phone in a certain manner, they can actually attenuate [...]

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Apple is once again the victim of their own hype and popularity of upcoming products, this time on the Iphone4. A pre-production Iphone4 was found and put online, which only added to the hype around this device. Now comes word that many people who want to upgrade from older Apple phones are discovering that there [...]

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I found this article from Reuters about the move to lower price smart phones, and found it to be very interesting, especially as it speaks about ZTE, a phone company from China that hasn’t been seen as much under it’s own name in the west. They are aiming for a $100 – $150 smart phone, [...]

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Rarely does anyone talk about Google failing. The Mountain View, California company has been very careful to shield it’s less than successful ideas from the public, often hiding their software offerings under Beta tags, such as the widely anticipated and mostly ignored Google Wave product. By keeping them in Beta mode often for years, they [...]

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this is one of those stories that is almost too good to be true, yet there it is. Apparently some Apple engineer “lost” one of the pre-production / test versions of the yet to be announced version 4 of the Iphone. Someone happened to find it, and apparently for a few dollars (10k, apparently) he [...]

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In what some see as a stunning admission of being crowded out of many of the smart phone markets, and perhaps as a preemptive strike against the upcoming Google Nexus 1, Apple and NeXT have filed suit against Asian smart phone maker HTC, alleging all sorts of patent infringement and the like. Public opinion on [...]

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Well, Apple has upset the apple cart as it were, and pretty much pushed the new Google phone right out of the headlines with the announcement of it’s upcoming Ipad tablet portable reader thingie. First off, I have to say that this is a terrible name, the jokes about Itampon, feminine hygene products in general, [...]

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