1. Apple Leads Smartphone Race, while Android Attracts Most Recent Customers  permalink

Apple Leads Smartphone Race, while Android Attracts Most Recent Customers
Blog.nielsen.com

The race for the lead in U.S. smartphone operating system (OS) consumer market share is tighter than it has ever been. According to November data from The Nielsen Company, the popularity of the Android OS among those who purchased a smartphone in the last six months (40%) makes it the leading OS among recent acquirers.

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IPhone still king; new smartphone buyers opting for Android Hands On: Toshiba's Android Tablet   —  With Motorola's upcoming Android Honeycomb-based tablet stealing the spotlight—those "tablet evolution" ads dissing the iPad and the Galaxy Tab are attention grabbers—Toshiba has pulled off a bit of a coup. The refreshingly simply-named Toshiba Tablet is officially the first Honeycomb tablet announced during the Consumer Electronics ...

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Google takes heat over Android tablet OS   —  Android device makers around the world are anticipating great things from the next version of Google's mobile software, and they need the boost. Apple has a strong head start with sales of its popular iPad, while the App Store and iTunes give it apps and content, to boot. But after a year of prodding Google, device makers think they've finally ...

2. Man eats iPhone 4 at New Year's Eve celebration  permalink

Man eats iPhone 4 at New Year's Eve celebration
Mike Schramm / TUAW

We admit, we tricked you a bit with that headline -- India's Krishna Kalyan actually ate a cake for New Year's Eve, which is not nearly as extraordinary (or painful) as actually chowing down on a Retina Display and an A4 processor. But it was a cake that looked remarkably like an iPhone 4 -- as you can see to the right, the screen is very ...

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Man eats iPhone 4 at New Year's Eve celebration Bits: iPhone Alarm Still Remains Silent   —  IPhone customers were still confused and upset after the phone’s built-in alarm failed to go off for the third day in a row.

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Obecnie Software Releases SiteScout iPhone App for Location Scouts   —  Atlanta based Obecnie introduces SiteScout 1.0, an iPhone app for location scouts and location professionals that need to catalog and send location information. SiteScout identifies locations from GPS, an address search, or from the location information associated with saved photos. Assign multiple notes, photos and contacts for each location. ...

3. VideoDrive 2.3 beta RC1 - Add movies to iTunes without converting them..  permalink

VideoDrive 2.3 beta RC1 - Add movies to iTunes without converting them..
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VideoDrive makes it easy to add videos to iTunes without converting them or losing quality. VideoDrive supports all current formats, including mpg, mpeg, mp4, avi, wmv, swf, m4v, m2v, flv, wma, mkv, asf, divx, xvid, dv and YouTube video formats. With VideoDrive, your video collection will look stunning in cover flow in iTunes. Videos in iTunes ...

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VideoDrive 2.3 beta RC1 - Add movies to iTunes without converting them.. Movie Studios Harnessing iTunes Extras For Advanced Features   —  Introduced in late 2009 with iTunes 9, iTunes Extras have been billed as a way for movie studios to release additional features and functionalities with their iTunes Store video content, offering a way to compete with and even exceed bonus fe...

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VideoDrive 2.3 beta RC1 - Add movies to iTunes without converting them.. EasyWMA 3.1 - Convert .wma files to .mp3 audio files..   —  EasyWMA allows you to convert asf, flv, wma, wmv audio real media and ogg vorbis files to aiff, mp3, m4a or wav so that you can play your favorite songs in iTunes or any other player on your Mac. EasyWMA can be helpful if you need to play wma files on your iPod. Main features: Input formats : wma, asf, flv, wmv, wav, ogg vorbis, real media ...

4. Apple's market cap passes $300 billion  permalink

Apple's market cap passes $300 billion
Victor Agreda / TUAW

After blasting through the $330 per share for Apple's stock today, the company now has a market capitalization valued at around $302 billion dollars . While market cap isn't everything, this is a substantial shift from the way things used to be. Apple used to be the underdog! Remember when Apple was on life support in the '90s after a series of ...

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Apple's market cap passes $300 billion Apple Surpasses $300 Billion in Market Capitalization   —  On the first trading day of 2011, Apple's stock has jumped to a new high and broken through yet another psychological milestone by pushing past $300 billion in market capitalization. AAPL stock currently sits at nearly $330 per share with a market c...

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QuickerTek announces Apple Juicz Solar Charger Release v.2   —  QuickerTek has expanded its solar chargers to include the just-announced 11 and 13 inch Apple MacBook Air 3rd generation laptops. The Apple Juicz now powers all MacBook and MacBook Pro models as well as all MacBook Air. The Apple Juicz Solar Charger is fully ready to use, with all cables to make "going solar" as easy as it should be. The Apple ...

5. Mac ChiSquare Analysis 2.5 - Calculates chi-square statistic and more..  permalink

Mac ChiSquare Analysis 2.5 - Calculates chi-square statistic and more..
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Mac ChiSquare Analysis... Calculates chi-square statistic as well as contingency, phi, and kappa coefficients for up to 10 x 10 table. Version 2.5: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated. Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Download Now

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Mac Bundler adds Two Apps to its Bundle Promotion   —  Mac Bundler today announced they have added added two more Apps to their Christmas and New Year Promotion Bundle. The bundle promotion ends in one week, and includes AllMyTube, PrimeFiles, AppDefender, PhotoCollage, LightFrame, MacSnapper and iBloodTracker. This is the best line up of amazing applications this holiday season and still the best ...

6. Karaoke! Espionage! Haute Cuisine!: Adventures in the North Korean Government's Restaurant Chain  permalink

Karaoke! Espionage! Haute Cuisine!: Adventures in the North Korean Government's Restaurant Chain
Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company

Dishes are approved by the Dear Leader but guaranteed not to make you Il. By expanding into Dubai and Amsterdam, the NK government's eateries are providing an alternative to arms sales in raising foreign capital. Food not bombs, indeed! A chain of restaurants affiliated with the North Korean government recently opened a Dubai branch. Visitors to ...

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Karaoke! Espionage! Haute Cuisine!: Adventures in the North Korean Government's Restaurant Chain N.Korean missing in Nepal has defected to India   —  SEOUL (AFP) – A North Korean who went missing in Nepal was a restaurant manager who defected and is now living in India, a South Korean newspaper reported Tuesday.

7. Some rumors  permalink

Www.hardmac.com

After exchanging New Year’s wishes with some of our best sources, we collected some information that could pave the way of release of new products, software or technologies. Here they are:

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8. Would You Buy Toshiba's Glasses-Free 3-D Laptops?  permalink

Would You Buy Toshiba's Glasses-Free 3-D Laptops?
Austin Carr / Fast Company

Will 3-D succeed? The technology has always been hindered by the viewing experience's central component, 3-D glasses, which have been awkward and annoying to wear ever since the flimsy red-and-blue framed spectacles of yore. But with 3-D tech creating a blockbuster boom in Hollywood, everyone involved in the industry--from Sony to 50 Cent --is ...

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Would You Buy Toshiba's Glasses-Free 3-D Laptops? Vizio Tries To Make All Other 3D TVs Look Stupid   —  Vizio knows how to make cheap TVs that consumers actually buy and like, and with the 3D revolution underway, it's doing something that will make even the slightest money-conscious people turn their...

9. Siemens Invests in Expanding Wind Power  permalink

JACK EWING / NYT

Clean energy is a big moneymaker for Siemens, and the company wants to become one of biggest suppliers of wind power equipment.

10. HandBrake 0.9.5 - Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more..  permalink

HandBrake 0.9.5 - Versatile video encoder; convert any source to MPEG-4 and more..
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HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded video encoding tool. Supported Sources: Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files Most any multimedia ...

11. Pete Postlethwaite dies aged 64  permalink

Pete Postlethwaite dies aged 64
BBC News

Oscar-nominated British actor Pete Postlethwaite has died in hospital in Shropshire at the age of 64, a spokesman announces.

12. 2010 in IP addresses: 225 million down, 496 million to go  permalink

2010 in IP addresses: 225 million down, 496 million to go
Ars Technica

As of January 1, 2011, the number of unused IPv4 addresses stands at 495.66 million. Exactly a year earlier, the number of available addresses was 721.06 million. So we collectively used up 225.4 million addresses in 2010. 242 million, really, if we ignore the unusual circumstance that Interop gave back nearly 17 million addresses . At first ...

13. December 2010 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®  permalink

Www.ism.ws

DO NOT CONFUSE THIS NATIONAL REPORT with the various regional purchasing reports released across the country. The national report's information reflects the entire United States, while the regional reports contain primarily regional data from their local vicinities. Also, the information in the regional reports is not used in calculating the ...

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14. Apache, WANdisco duel over Subversion  permalink

InfoWorld News

A dispute that has emerged between the Apache Software Foundation and a corporate participant over the Subversion software version control system actually puts the two parties on the same side of the argument. The two organizations are both in agreement about improvements to the popular open source project, which has millions of users and is ...

15. Japan Keeps a High Wall for Foreign Labor  permalink

Japan Keeps a High Wall for Foreign Labor
HIROKO TABUCHI / NYT

Immigration provides one remedy to Japan’s lethargic economy, but Tokyo is resisting accepting young workers.

16. US offers Gbagbo 'dignified exit'  permalink

US offers Gbagbo 'dignified exit'
BBC News

Incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is offered refuge in the US as a means to end the country's political crisis.

17. PhpMyAdmin 3.3.9 - MySQL administration via the web..  permalink

PhpMyAdmin 3.3.9 - MySQL administration via the web..
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phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web. Currently it can: Create and drop databases Create, copy, drop and alter tables Delete, edit and add fields Execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries Manage keys on fields Load text files into tables Create and read dumps of tables Export data to CSV values Administer ...

18. API Growth Doubles in 2010, Social and Mobile Are Trends  permalink

API Growth Doubles in 2010, Social and Mobile Are Trends
Adam DuVander / ProgrammableWeb

Was 2010 the year of the API? Some have claimed this each of the last five years, with the next always eclipsing the previous. There were 1,019 new APIs added to our API directory in 2010, two times the number added in 2009. Greater trends on the web are being played out, as social APIs were the most popular and the influence of mobile is clear.

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API Growth Doubles in 2010, Social and Mobile Are Trends 40 New APIs: Google, Facebook Analytics and PayPal Subscriptions   —  This week we had 40 new APIs added to our API directory including a social platform service, mobile push notification platform, random quote generator, file sharing and hosting site, digital asset management system, vehicle fleet tracking service, social media analytics platform, Google billing service and three ways to take payments and ...

19. Delicious, Spotlight and OpenMeta tags, revisited  permalink

Delicious, Spotlight and OpenMeta tags, revisited
Brettterpstra.com

I’ve taken a little time to improve the script I’d posted previously. It saves bookmarks you add to Delicious as webloc (Safari bookmark) files on your local hard drive, optionally with thumbnails and OpenMeta tags.

20. Media Decoder: John Roberts Goes to Fox  permalink

BILL CARTER / NYT

Executives at CNN confirmed Monday that John Roberts, who served as the morning anchor for the network since April 2007, would be joining Fox News as a national correspondent.