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Smartphone sales have continued to explode with analyst firm Gartner reporting an almost 50% increase in the first quarter of 2010. Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, also states that.. “Android’s momentum continued into the first quarter of 2010, particularly in North America, where sales of Android-based phones increased 707% year-on-year.” Microsoft took a beating, with Android outperforming the Windows Mobile OS and pushing it into fourth place for the first time.

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Android knocks WinMo into fourth place according to stats

Sprint Hero owners can now at last get their hands on the highly anticipated Android 2.1 update . It’s available from the support site and gives enhanced corporate email support, HTC Sense improvements, better camera quality and all the Android 2.1 improvements (faster, more screen size support, improved Google Maps, Exchange support, live wallpapers and much more).

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Android 2.1 arrives for Sprint Hero

Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system continues to stagnate as people wait for Windows Phone 7 and the latest data shows Google Android passing them up. Android actually had the largest percentage increase of all smartphone platforms.

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Google Android smacks down Windows Mobile in latest Gartner data

Hermeneutics One of the most puzzling features of the current unstoppable wave of political punditry that is flooding all channels and outlets at the moment (including this one of course) is the peculiar propensity of commentators to feel qualified to extrapolate from the election results the Manifest Will of Britain.

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Stalemate: PR and PR, Ice Cream, Bananas and Fudge

On the Mother Ship. a self-confessed Apple fanboy gets finger time with the ipad – and face time with Steve Jobs Article “Apple’s iPad: The Mothership Prepares for Launch” published on Thursday 1st April 2010 in TIME Magazine” – Time Magazine headline. It is a gorgeous spring day when I arrive at the coolest address in the universe: 1 infinite Loop, Cupertino, Calif., where apple has been headquartered since 1993

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Apple’s iPad: The Mothership Prepares for Launch

Earlier today, Steve Jobs talked publicly about his life saving liver transplant for the first time at a press conference where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced new legislation to encourage and make easier organ donation.

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Steve Jobs Talks About His Liver Transplant [VIDEO]

We wanted to tell you what Spike Jonze’s new web film I’m Here is all about, we really did, and not just because it reportedly has robots in it — though that was certainly a major factor in the decision. But after we crossed the virtual street to the virtual box office, we were informed that..

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Spike Jonze’s free web film features robot love, vodka, long wait times

There’s a lot of chatter going on right now about whether or not cut-and-paste and true multi-tasking will ever make it into Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Windows Phone 7 Series platform. Well, today Microsoft themselves are getting a little more official – if just as vague – on the whole… IntoMobile – Windows Phone 7 emulator unlocked, shows off unseen goodies IntoMobile – Windows Phone 7 emulator hacked for full functionality SlashGear – Windows Phone 7 Series to get cut-and-paste, eventually

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Microsoft gets official on Windows Phone 7 cut-and-paste and unlocked emulator goodies

The company said that the new BCM56840 series gives up to 64 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) or 16 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE). Such connectivity can now be deployed by medium-sized enterprises that could not normally afford such fast connections the company said…. IT Business Edge – Broadcom Launches Efficient, Fast Single-Chip Ethernet Switches

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Broadcom claims world’s fastest single-chip Ethernet switch

This week we’ve got a book hot off the presses for your weekly dose of entrepreneurial reading as 37signals founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are back with their second book in four months. Released earlier this month, Rework , a no-nonsense rethinking of how to successfully..

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Late last year, the Mariposa Working Group (comprised of Defence Intelligence, the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, Panda Security, and other international security experts and law enforcement agencies) worked together to bring down what is considered to be the largest botnet in history…. MobileBurn – 3,000 Vodafone HTC Magic Android smartphones infected with malware

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Malware-infected memory cards affect up to 3,000 Vodafone HTC Magic Android smartphones

Queensland has a new state-of-the-art advanced driving simulator that will help advance Australian road safety research and provide insights into driver behaviour. The Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q) is based at the Queensland University of Technology. The…

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Driving simulator helps advance Australian road safety research

Carr’s book, the Night of the Gun, is about that change, mostly. His story is one of the downtrodden man coming around to a sweeter life; classic. But what’s also striking is Carr’s self awareness

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Night of the Gun: Remembering Only What We Can Stand To Remember [Memoryforever]

I had pointed this out in a comment yesterday, but with so many press reports suggesting that Viacom’s filing found some sort of “smoking gun” in the YouTube emails concerning founders talking about “stealing” videos, it’s worth pointing out that Viacom appears to have taken these quotes totally… Silicon Alley Insider – Inside The He-Said, She-Said Of The Viacom-YouTube Dispute (GOOG, VIA) Wall Street Journal – The Numbers Behind The World’s Fastest Growing Web Site: YouTube’s Finances Revealed [MediaMemo]

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People Realizing That Viacom’s Filings Take YouTube Quotes Totally Out Of Context

According to the Merc, Jobs said he had been lucky to fly to the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis – presumably in his private Gulfstream V executive jet – “within a four-hour window” to receive his donated liver. When Jobs returned from his medical leave and… AppleInsider – Steve Jobs teams with Calif

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Steve Jobs and governator tout transplant reform

Viacom has accused YouTube of looking the other way when clips from the Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures were once plentiful on the site.(Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET)Thursday’s 200-page dump of court documents in the 3-year-old, $1 billion copyright fight between Viacom and Google’s YouTube was… TMC – Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube and Google gets Juicy

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Reasons to care about Viacom vs. Google (FAQ)

The digital economy bill is a highly controversial bill. Many of us believe that it threatens to severely infringe fundamental human rights, by allowing the disconnection of internet accounts for alleged copyright infringement, and also by new ‘website blocking’ laws that could result in new ways..

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Open letter: Wash-up not appropriate for controversial disconnection proposals

Earlier this week, Hitwise put out stats suggesting that Facebook is beating Google and Twitter when it comes to driving traffic to news sites. I dug a little deeper, and I beg to differ. Along the way, some pokes at the need to more digging into stats in general

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Stat Rant: Google Actually Trumps Facebook For News & Can’t We Measure Twitter Correctly?

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized to an elderly Brooklyn couple on Friday for about 50 door-pounding visits police made to their home resulting from a glitch in one of the department’s computers. Police used the address of Rose and and Walter Martin’s modest home as part of… New York Post – NYC cops sorry for pounding couple’s door 50 times

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Computer glitch prompts 50 raids on elderly couple’s home

Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of MySQL who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion, has taken a new job as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company said Friday. Mickos is staying in the open-source world but jumping on a newer computing trend — cloud… Wall Street Journal – Former MySQL Chief Mickos is Joining Eucalyptus [Voices]

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Ex-MySQL Chief Marten Mickos Lands New CEO Job

Orange have today confirmed our earlier story regarding the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. Orange will have the exclusive on the white version of this handset when it appears at the start of April and it’ll be free to customers on selected pay monthly plans. The X10 is the first Android device from Sony Ericsson and has the Timescape and Mediascape interface.

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White Xperia X10 – Exclusive to Orange

As the world is mobile each and everyone is in need of an unimpeded browsing and media experience. More smart phones, blackberry, and uniquely designed business phones are available but still a gap exists and that too has been bridged by the recent launch of Apple iPad. Apple iPad is the first tablet computer that belongs Read More

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Virgin Media has now announced that it will be carrying the HTC Desire too. The network already carries the Windows-powered HTC HD2 and has also just ranged the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy with the Xperia X10 also set to arrive soon. At the moment it looks like all the major networks will be getting the HTC Desire, with the “separated at birth” Nexus One being carried only by Vodafone here in the UK

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HTC Desire set to arrive on Virgin Mobile too

The much-anticipated HTC Hero updated is now apparently set to arrive on April 2nd with network variants getting their fix on April 16th. The details, posted over at xda-developers.com relate to the European roll-out of the Android 2.1 update and all the extra HTC Sense loveliness we saw on the HTC Legend .

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HTC Android 2.1 Update coming April?

The Google Nexus One may soon be the hottest Android device on every major US wireless carrier now that Sprint and AT&T announced the device. They join confirmed carriers T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless and I have a feeling the device sales will increase quickly.

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Sprint announces Google Nexus One coming soon, all 4 carriers to soon have device

The whole Windows Phone 7 Series announcement has pretty much split traditional Windows Mobile fans into two camps. The first camp is happy to see the previous “Today” screen and ageing interface consigned to the wheelie bin, whilst the second camp mourns the loss of a business-orientated device.

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Windows Phone 7 Series – No Copy and Paste at launch

So, some other interesting information from MIX10 today. Microsoft have yet again stated that no, no, absolutey no, the HD2 will definitely not get Windows Phone 7 Series. Also, the hardware details are out – there’ll be a consistent set of hardware with one resolution available at launch – 800×480.

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Windows Phone 7 in more detail at MIX10

Microsofts’ MIX10 event is underway in Las Vegas and Windows Phone 7 Series developer details have been revealed. The event kicked off with Scott Guthrie (.NET Developer Platform) and Joe Belfiore (Windows Phone Programme Management). The keynote revealed that Silverlight will be used for rich internet apps and the XNA Framework for game development on Windows Phone 7 Series

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Developer details at MIX10 for Windows Phone 7

Opera Software continues to expand the availability of its mobile browser, announcing a new version of Opera Mini designed to work on Android-based smartphones. The new Android browser, already available to download, follows the iPhone-compatible version of the browser that Opera announced last month. The new browser, called Opera Mini 5 beta for Android, features Opera’s signature compression feature, which compresses Web content for faster delivery

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Opera Mini Browser Now Available for Android Phones

Apple yesterday filed suit against HTC , a company that manufactures a variety of smartphones, including Google’s Nexus One . Apple’s suit accuses HTC of infringing on numerous Apple patents that relate to the iPhone’s user interface, architecture, and hardware, and asks for a permanent injunction that would prevent HTC from importing or selling the phones in question in the U.S.

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Apple Sues HTC: Should You Care?