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Samsung Brings Bada: Is There Room For Another Mobile OS?
There’s a dark horse in the mobile industry that most people don’t hear much about. With all the talk today about Apple’s iPhone, Nokia, and the Android OS and it’s myriad of device choices…there’s a company who continues to deliver amazing results quarter after quarter and year after year. Samsung continues to perform consistently and this fact cannot be denied. As mobile thought leader Tomi Ahonen points out , Samsung is the number 2 worldwide market share leader in the year 2009 with a whopping 20% market share
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Taptu iPhone/iPod Touch App Featured in the App Store
W00t! – we’re a bit happy over here at Taptu Towers as the nice people over at Apple are featuring Taptu on the App Store homepage this week. As a startup it’s always nice to get some recognition and in the spirit of blowing our horn we thought we’d share with you some of our favorite reviews of Taptu. From the App Store “It really gnarly” “Let me just say it plain & simple, I LOVE IT!! The best search app for the iPhone & iPod touch EVER!!” “I’m amzed” “Bonerlicious!!!!!!” “It nice get it if if u don’t got it I’m just say” “This app us freaking awesome I love it I use it all the time fir everything I do.
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An Ode to Mobile World Congress, By Bob Last
I recently asked Bob Last, a co-founder and our VP of Business Development, to give some perspective from his point of view on Mobile World Congress. Bob wrote a great poem, and here it is for you to enjoy! Another year at MWC Barcelona has passed The GSM-A annual blast 50,000 suits and smart phones 3000 vendors and sales drones Added value this year from Spain: Day 1 with torrential rain But hey! we’re in the halls Touchscreens adorning all walls A theme this year to share? Well 3 really to be fair Touchscreens, apps and 4G A mobile data orgy Touchscreens, the new black Everywhere, from all the pack With whistles, bells and maps Widgets, colours and apps Come develop to our platform, do! Our apps number too few But Apple are the choice for most Developers know the rest are toast Except that this, big G Giving Nexus Ones out for free It spread on Twitter and Digg Android is the alternative gig That leaves Carriers to carry And 4G they are forced to marry Or face the eternal hells Of data-crazed clogged cells So LTE this time had bite Very evident in China’s might Broadband for all they say But can data make it pay? And Windows Phone 7 got aired Bing search not bundled but paired A good looker from ear to ear But not available till later this year And what of Taptu?
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Photos: LG Arena Maxx LU9400 vs iPhone
LG Arena Maxx LU9400 is a new high-end touchscreen phone that should be announced by LG in the coming weeks — that’s what we’ve heard. The phone features a large 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen display, GPS, Wi-Fi, 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and a powerful 1500 mAh battery
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LG e-reader coming. Kindle, iPad, beware
LG plans to introduce an e-book reader as soon as April this year. According to KW Kim, LG MEA’s CEO, the company’s e-reader would compete with the Amazon Kindle and the not-yet-available Apple iPad (which, as far as we’re concerned, is one of the biggest wastes of time and money in the recent gadget history — and we hope to see it on a Cracked list soon)
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Apple India Customer Service #FAIL
Over at Smoking Apples, Milind is the latest casualty of Apple India’s indifferent service When the Magic Mouse was launched, I figured it was just a mouse, so it had to show up within a week or two (I remember the Mighty Mouse took three weeks to get here). Friends offered to send me the mouse; I chose to wait, even though it would cost more. How was I repaid?
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Get access to documents and files stored on Google Docs/Dropbox and more
Quickoffice have just released an extension of their Mobile Suite which provides the ability to not only edit and create Word and Excel files but now get access to those documents stored on cloud services such as Apple MobileMe, Google Docs, Box.net and Dropbox. You can read the press release HERE You can download it from the iTunes App Store HERE
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One hundred eighty degrees of freedom: signs of how open platforms are spreading
Visualize open networks–and remember how far we’ve already come from the days before flat-rate long distance phone calls (much less app stores for cell phones).
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Top 10 Articles On PSFK.com From The Last 7 Days
Below are the 10 most popular posts from the last 7 days (January 25-31, 2010) on PSFK.com (based on Google Analytics.) Redefining What Makes A Campaign Viral By Paloma Vazquez How The iPad Could Change PSFK By Piers Fawkes (Pics) Emotional Furniture: The Punch‘n’Cuddle By Dan Gould Apple’s iPad: A New Category Of Device …
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Apple Releases 27-Inch iMac Firmware Update to Address Display Problems, Temporarily Halting Production?
Apple has released a firmware update to address ongoing problems causing intermittent display flickering affecting some 27-inch iMac models. Updates the display firmware on 27-inch iMac systems to address issues that may cause intermittent display flickering
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