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The final proof that Symbian is dead, dead, dead

April 27, 2011

The Inquirer: “FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has announced plans to outsource Symbian development and support to the IT management consulting firm Accenture.” Accenture: Where old software goes to die.

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Apple is dead in the water, redux

April 26, 2011

Charles Arthur, reporting for The Guardian on an IDC/Appcelerator survey of developers: “App developer interest is shifting back toward Apple as fragmentation and “tepid” interest in current Android tablets chips away at Google’s recent gains in momentum, according to a new survey of more than 2,700 developers around the world. In the survey, 91% of developers said [...]

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Goodbye, JKOnTheRun

April 15, 2011

Warner Crocker on the demise of JKOnTheRun: jkOnTheRun was one of the first mobile tech blogs I followed and JK was one of the guys who I always turned to hear or read his opinion. I still do. Whether it was reading posts on the blog or listening to the podcasts with James and the [...]

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Google’s “proprietary information” (or, what makes Google money stays in Google)

April 13, 2011

From Steven Levy’s marvellous new book on Google: “[Google] was becoming less a research project than an Internet start-up run from a private university. Page and Brin’s reluctance fo write a paper about their work had become notorious in the department. ‘People were saying ‘Why is this so secret? This is an academic project, we [...]

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Rugby AND video games. What’s not to like?

April 12, 2011

I love rugby, and I love video games. So you can see why this might appeal…

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and iPad compared

March 15, 2011

How will the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 compare to the iPad 2? Seth Weintraub at Fortune highlights four points where the Samsung scores well compared to the iPad: Runs on HSPA+ ’4G’ networks at up to 21Mbps without sending it back to the shop It somehow weighs less than the iPad 2 Wifi at 599 [...]

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If you want to know the core of the Twitter API changes, this is it

March 12, 2011

That clever Matthew Somerville character has done a handy page visually showing the differences between the old and new Twitter API terms. There are lots of them, but I think the most important one is short: “We want to empower our ecosystem partners to build valuable businesses tools around the information flowing through Twitter.” Twitter [...]

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Why “evil” is the most over-used word in tech

March 2, 2011

One of the things which you often hear reading tech blogs, and particularly the comments, is that such-and-such a company is “evil”. What this usually means isn’t that they’re deliberately employing children or forcing workers to work in polluted factories which damage their health. Instead, the cry of “evil” is used to describe companies that [...]

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The Nokia/Microsoft Elephant Tango

February 11, 2011

Alan Patrick ponders if Nokia and Microsoft ever be Mobile?: “The reason the JV is happening is that the assets being brought to the table are not so much incredible but non-credible. The two companies have completeley dropped the ball in mobile over the last 5 years, from positions of strength, due to a combination of [...]

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