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These headphones are one of my everyday gadgets. They’re certainly not for audiophiles, but when it comes to listening to podcasts while I run errands and clean up around the house, or background music for studying, these bad boys come in handy. Battery life is impressive and it pairs to my Palm Pre very quickly.
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Here is a few of my favorite Super Bowl ads
Doritos – crashes the Super Bowl – The strategy have the most commercial at the Super Bowl.
Budweiser
Audi
Bridgestone
Hyundai
Gatorade
And the most discussed ads
Megan fox for Motorola
Market research firm IDC on Thursday reported a record level of smartphone shipments for the fourth quarter of 2009, when vendors shipped 54.4 million devices. That’s up 39 percent from the same quarter a year ago, the company said.
The handset company with the largest growth in 2009 was Apple. Apple’s unit shipments for the year were 25.1 million, up from 13.8 million units in 2008. The company’s market share rose from 9.1 percent in 2008 to 14.4 percent in 2009, an 81.9 percent year-over-year increase.
(Credit: IDC)
That represents the largest year-over-year increase of any mobile manufacturer, according to IDC.
Fourth quarter 2009 shipments and market share were even better for Apple. The company shipped 8.7 million iPhones in the quarter, up from 4.4 million units during the same quarter of 2008. Its market share rose from 11.2 percent in 2008 to 16 percent in 2009, representing a 97.7 percent growth increase.
(Credit: IDC)
Apple finished in the third spot for the fourth quarter and yearly market share. Nokia took the top spot finishing the year with 67.7 million shipments, an 11.9 percent increase over 2008. Its market share was 38.9 percent.
Research In Motion finished in second place with 34.5 million shipments for 2009, an increase of 46.2 percent over 2008, and a 19.8 percent market share.
Acer F900 is designed especially for style conscious users and for those who know mobile technology better. It has all the major MO applications which are necessary in any gadget. The handset is packed with beautiful design and large display screen. It covers all the four networks so that users can enjoy best network coverage. Milestone is the first of its kind which runs on Android operating system. Motorola Milestone acquires all the major features and functions that are necessary for any handset. It is a slider handset so when one is opening the slider, it reveals the beautiful QWERTY keypad which looks amazing while holding in hand.
Design and Display
Acer F900 acquires amazing and sleek design with very smooth edges on both sides. The dimension of the gadget measure between 117.5 x 63.5 x 12.9 mm and it weighs just 150 g. It has a large TFT touch screen display and there are 4 buttons placed below the display screen, Call, Menu, back and End keys. The stylus is placed at the top left of the device from where it is very easily accessible. Camera shutter key, memory card slot and volume rocker button are placed on its right side while the power button and USB port is located on the top of the device.
In the case of Motorola Milestone, it acquires a huge TFT display screen which looks amazing on its first sight. It has dimensions which measure 115.8 x 60 x 13.7 mm and it weighs 165 g. It has a large 3.7 inches TFT touch screen display which supports the resolution of 480 x 854 pixels. The capacitive touch screen of this gadget supports 16 million colors which offer an amazing experience to the users. Motorola is packed with accelerometer sensor, proximity sensor and QWERTY keypad for 5 way navigation. On the other hand, The Acer is loaded with Widget based user interface and Handwriting Recognition features. This feature enables the users to lock the device and no one can unlock by any means.
Android devices come from all walks of life but rarely do they carry as much baggage as the MILESTONE. Motorola seem to be betting the farm with the MILESTONE and the warm reception it’s getting must leave them breathing a sigh of relief. Catching the Android wave may’ve seemed like the last available move but a device like the MILESTONE makes turning the tide much more likely.
So, Motorola are back with a bang and the MILESTONE is one of the best spec’d phones to ever run Android. The Google Nexus One is supposed to instill fear in nearly every touchscreen device out there but the Moto Droid must be positioned well enough by now to withstand the attack.
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Roger Martin
Here is an excerpt of an article written by Roger Martin for the Harvard Business blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Daily Alerts, please visit dailyalert@email.harvardbusiness.org.The perception that good management is closely linked to good measurement runs deep. How often do you hear these old saws repeated: “If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t count”; “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”; “If you can’t measure it, it won’t happen”? We like these sayings because they’re comforting. The act of measurement provides security; if we know enough about something to measure it we almost certainly have some control over it.
But however comforting it can be to stick with what we can measure, we run the risk of expunging something really important. What’s more, we won’t see what we’re missing because we don’t know what it is that we don’t know. By sticking simply to what we can measure, we come to imagine a small and constrained world in which we are prisoners of a “reality” that is in fact an edifice we’ve unknowingly constructed around ourselves.
The late 19th and early 20th century American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce was the first to point out that no new idea in the world was ever produced by inductive or deductive logic. Analyzing the past, crunching the existing numbers to produce the future can do nothing more than extrapolate the future from the past. So if you stick to measuring what you can already measure, you cannot create a future that is different than the past.
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We need to get away from all those old sayings about measurement and management, and in that spirit I’d like to propose a new wisdom: “If you can’t imagine it, you will never create it.” The future is about imagination, not measurement. To imagine a future, one has to look beyond the measurable variables, beyond what can be proven with past data. While Motorola was projecting future sales volumes of “feature phones,” Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research in Motion, was imagining what executive life would be like if you could receive your emails on a handheld device. How compelling would an ordinary phone be if you could have a BlackBerry attached to your belt? He couldn’t “prove” that this would be a good idea. There was no data on the demand patterns for smartphones, because smartphones existed only in his imagination. But a mere 11 years after the launch of the product of his imagination, RIM leads Motorola by an ever-accelerating margin in sales, market share and profitability.
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To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Daily Alerts, please visit dailyalert@email.harvardbusiness.org.
Roger Martin is the Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada and the author of The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Press, 2009). His website is: www.rogerlmartin.com.
Professor Martin Darbyshire, CEO of the internationally renowned design consultancy Tangerine will lead the debate on Sustainable Product Design at the Plastics Design and Moulding Exhibition and Conference (PDM10), taking place at the Telford International Centre from 18 to 20 May 2010.
With worldwide focus shifting towards a more responsible management of resources, Professor Darbyshire’s Design Debate keynote on 19th May will highlight the growing importance of sustainability and how its integration into the product design process offers increased opportunities for plastics designers. He will also examine the crucial role sustainable product design will have in shaping the behaviour of tomorrow’s consumer s to live in a more resource-friendly manner.
Professor Martin Darbyshire, CEO of Tangerine
“Sustainable design and manufacture is a vital element in the development of new plastic products,” said Steve Crowhurst, PDM10 event director. “As head of the universally respected design consultancy Tangerine and a leader in consumer insight, innovation and design strategy for major manufacturers, retailers and service-sector clients globally, Professor Darbyshire is uniquely well placed to offer market predictions and to lead PDM10’s Sustainable Product Design debate.”
Professor Darbyshire has worked on some of the world’s biggest brand names including Fujitsu, LG, Motorola, Nissan, Nikon, Orange, Samsung, Toyota, Toshiba and Unilever. Before establishing Tangerine, whose co-founders included Jonathan Ive, now chief designer at Apple, he also worked alongside Bill Moggridge, head of IDEO, the leading US product design consultancy. Tangerine has been the recipient of many national and international design awards, most notably the DBA Design Effectiveness ‘Grand Prix’ for its design for British Airways of the world’s first, fully-flat business class bed which since its launch in 2000, has remained the profit engine of the airline.
PDM10 will also host keynote speeches from Sir Richard Needham, international and commercial director at Dyson, who will present at the conference’s Moulding Business Debate and Lord Bhattacharyya, founder and director of the internationally renowned WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group), who will lead the Innovations Debate.
PDM is the most comprehensive plastics event in the UK. Full details of the PDM Conference are expected to be announced on 1 February 2010. For more information visit: http://www.pdmevent.com
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We’ve posted a two-part video on how quick and easy it is to enhance old emulation screens with the TE 7.2 Screen Reformatter on our YouTube channel (You can even watch in HD!).
We want to know what you think of it and also get your thoughts on Wavelink TE 7.2 in general.
So, what are your favorite features and have we captured just how easy it is to reformat screens?
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A “monstrous” jump in demand for Android-equipped smartphones has turned the market upside down, a retail pollster said today.
Of the people who told ChangeWave Research in a mid-December survey that they planned to buy a smartphone in the next 90 days, 21% said they expected to purchase a handset powered by Google’s Android operating system. That number represented a 250% increase over the 6% that pegged Android as their mobile OS of choice when ChangeWave last queried consumers’ plans in September.
“That change rivals anything that we’ve seen in the last three years of the smartphone market,” said Paul Carton, ChangeWave’s director of research, adding that the sudden surge in consumer interest in Android had “roiled” the market.
“This is an indication that Android has finally caught consumer interest,” added Carton, who cited the recent advertising campaign by Motorola for its Droid smartphone as the reason why interest in the operating system has skyrocketed.
In September, the Android OS was tied for last place in consumers’ preference among the major mobile operating systems. Since then, it “has surged into second place ahead of all competitors except the iPhone OS,” said Carton.
The iPhone remained the No. 1 desired smartphone, according to ChangeWave’s latest survey, with 28% of those who plan on buying in the next three months saying that they would choose an Apple device. However, that figure was down four percentage points from September, when 32% said that they would acquire an iPhone.
The drop in the iPhone’s planned purchasing percentage wasn’t unexpected. “The first two quarters after the introduction of the iPhone 3G [in mid-2008], you saw this huge pop in buying plans, and then a downtick,” Carton said. “Same for the 3GS … actually, the drop-off for the iPhone after the 3GS was far less than the 3G.”
Android’s leap translated into good news for Motorola and HTC, the most prominent makers of Google-powered handsets, with the former reaping most of the benefit. Motorola’s share of smartphone purchases in the next 90 days shot up from 1% in September to 13% in December. Carton tagged the company’s Droid as the reason.
“[It's] the first increase for Motorola we’ve seen in three years,” said Carton.
All smartphone makers and mobile operating system developers are benefiting from the industry-wide upswing in sales, Carton contended. Approximately 42% of the 4,000-plus American consumers surveyed in December said they owned a smartphone, a three-point increase over September and 10 points higher than a year ago. “If a rising tide lifts all boats, then just by itself, the increase [in sales] means that it gets dicey to bet against anybody, or to bet on just one company,” Carton said. “But Android phones are clearly going to benefit the most from this tick up.”
The only mobile OS makers that Carton would peg as being in real trouble from Android’s new popularity were Palm and Microsoft. “This puts a lot of pressure on the Palm Pre,” he said, noting that the Pre didn’t have enough time to solidify its place in the smartphone market before Android handsets became the newest and latest rage. “And Windows Mobile … those are the [operating systems] that have to worry about Android’s numbers, they’re the ones that have to strike back somehow, not Apple or RIM. It’s hard to bet against those two.”
Consumers who own an Android-powered smartphone are almost as satisfied with their purchases as are iPhone owners, who have been historically extremely happy with their hardware. Of the people who told ChangeWave they had an Android handset, 72% said they were “very satisfied;” 77% of those who reported they own an iPhone answered the same way.
By comparison, only 41% of the people who own a BlackBerry said they were very satisfied, and just 25% of Windows Mobile-equipped smartphone owners rated their satisfaction using that phrase.
While he acknowledged the buzz around the expected announcement on Tuesday of a Google-branded smartphone, Carton argued that it was unlikely that the Nexus One would kill sales of other Android smartphones. He cited Motorola’s Droid as especially immune, in large part because of its link to Verizon.
“Unless Google’s phone is magnitudes better, I can’t see people walking out of Verizon and heading to T-Mobile,” he said. Reports have pegged T-Mobile as the likely carrier partner for Google’s own smartphone. “Look at Google’s move not in the short term,” Carton said. “But for three or four years from now.”
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143027/Demand_for_Android_phones_makes_monstrous_250_jump?taxonomyId=1&pageNumber=2
YouTube дори не съществува за повече от половината от десетилетие, а перфектната буря за увеличаване на честотната лента, напредъка в Flash, както и повишаването на социалните мрежи (където YouTube съдържание могат да ипотпал бъдат вградени) направиха 2005 г. е идеалният момент за сайт, за да направи своите дебют. Ръстът е метеорен, и в рамките на 18 месеца, млрд. на сайта се превръща в един от най-голям трафик в мрежата и компанията бяха продадени на Google за $ 1.6. Съ-основатели Чад Хърли и Стив Чен chronicled момента в този паметен клипче.
So, I’ve decided to do a brief review on the Motorola Cliq, the Android phone I am currently using. I’ve got an hour and a half until 2010 here, so there’s time.
A lot of people have been slagging the Cliq for being a “fun” phone or for being a “kid’s” phone. Why is it a “kid’s” phone? Is it because it is geared more towards people who use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter? I know plenty of adults in there 30’s and 40’s who use Facebook and Twitter. Nonsense, I say.
The Cliq is a very solid feeling phone. It’s got a little more weight to it than say a myTouch 3G, but I personally like that. Some people do, some don’t.
The display is a tiny bit smaller than a myTouch or G1 (3.1″ for the Cliq, 3.2″ for the myTouch & G1), and it is noticable. I didn’t think it would be, but it is. It is a 3G capable phone, which is a benefit for some people where T-Mobile has their 3G service, but it won’t make a difference to everyone else. It has a 5mp camera, but with no flash. The Cliq is running Android 1.5, whereas the myTouch and G1 are both running 1.6, and the G1 is rumored to be jumping to 2.0 or 2.0.1 in the near future. There are rumors of the Cliq getting upgraded to 2.0 or 2.1, and with the upcoming Motorola Devour on Verizon running Android 2.1 with MotoBlur, I think there’s a very good chance of the Cliq getting that update, once T-Mobile tweaks it a bit. Also on the front of the phone underneath the screen are three buttons. A menu button, home button, and previous window button.
The sliding mechanism for the keyboard feels sold and sounds solid. It’s a very nice click, almost like a little thud, when the keyboard opens and closes. I like it.
The keyboard itself is ok. I don’t like how tiny the spacebar is. Having the D-Pad on the left doesn’t really bother me. I can see it being used mostly by gamers, but I don’t really play games on my Cliq. It’s a 3 row Qwerty keyboard, with each key having an alternative symbol in the upper right corner. To access these, you need to push the Alt key (duh). What’s neat is that when the Alt key is pressed, the numbers and symbols light up to bring them more to you attention. The bottom row of keys, underneath the 3 row Qwerty, consists of the alt key, a search key, spacebar, symbol key, and a previous window key.
On the back of the screen when the keyboard is open is a lit up Motorola “M”. It’s actually pretty nice. Very subtle.
Call quality is very good. No complaints on either end.
Haven’t tried bluetooth so I can’t comment on that.
Overall, I like the Cliq. It does what it’s supposed to do. It gives the Android experience, even though it’s a little bit of a dated experience (1.5). It’s a good, fun phone.
