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Android Army Pumped for All-Out Attack on iPhone | Gadget Lab

Soon, you’ll need more than two hands to count the number of Android phones on the market. At this rate, it seems inevitable that the number of phones running Google’s open source operating system will eventually outnumber the number of iPhones, which run Apple’s proprietary (and closed) operating system.
via wired.com

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Posted 4 months ago

Droid: Top 7 features that will blow you away

[This post is not meant to be serious at all] 

My favourite Droid features from their website : 

1. Tunes, not to be mistaken with iTunes.
2. Night life: Staying lonely at home Saturday night? I know what you need.
3. Hardcore: as in... hardcore Tunes and Night life? 
4. MultiTouch: A "industry first" revolutionary method to use your fingers in a hardcore way. 
5. Big screen: Because that's what matters most. 
6. Life: Like most of us try to do, get yourself one.

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Posted 4 months ago

Social Games: How The Big Three Make Millions - TechCrunch

  zynga logo playfishlogo playdom logo
CrunchBase Profile Zynga

 

 Playfish

 

 Playdom

 
Location: San Francisco, CA London, UK Mountain View, CA
Money Raised: $39M $21 Million $0
Revenue: Estimated $200M Estimated $75M Estimated $60M

 
Rumors: Strong 2010 IPO candidate Possible acquisition talks with EA

 

 Raising Venture Capital
Key Apps: Facebook:
Farmville-61M
Mafia Wars-25.8M
Yoville-19.8M
Texas Hold Em’ Poker-18.3M		 Facebook:
Pet Society- 20.5M
Restaurant City-17.3M
Country Story- 8M
135 million total installs for all games		 Myspace:
Mobsters -14M
Bumper Stickers-11.7M
Own Your Friends-10.1M;
Facebook:
Sorority Life-7.1M
Mobsters 2-3.5M
Poker Palace- 1.5M

 

via techcrunch.com

 

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Posted 4 months ago

10 Star Wars Features for the Motorola Droid - Reviews by PC Magazine

10 Star Wars Features for the Motorola Droid

10.27.09

Ten Star Wars Features for the Motorola Droid

Here's a playful look at how to make Verizon's new Android handset the best phone in the galaxy.

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by Brian Heater

Buzz up!on Yahoo!

Did you know that Lucasfilm owns the trademark to the word "Droid?" Apparently, the word is mentioned once or twice in that "Star Wars" movie he made a bunch of years ago. As it turns out, if someone wants to use the term in an official product name, they've got to clear the rights with George and company.

via pcmag.com

 

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Posted 4 months ago

Fonera 2.0n in the UK - First impressions

FON is the company founded by Martin Varsavsky that produces wireless routers to help people share their WiFi Internet service and access others around the world. Fon is not a ISP, it uses what you already have at home to amplify it and use it as a hotspot. 

It doesn't stop there: Fonera is a small NAS, that can perform different actions independently from your computer. Fonera is indeed the first independent gadget that I own. While you go to work or school, fonera is at home doing geeky things for you, using your broadband while your not at home. This means that you don't have to leave your PC on all day and night to upload a video, download via Rapidshare or Megaupload, and even download torrents.  Of course, you can plug any device and share it over the network, including hard drives. Other features are in development.
Fonera 2.0n is a new upgrade on the previous model Fonera 2.0g. has greater WiFi range among other goodness. Specs here. Now it's black and green to remind us that it helps to reduce energy used.

When I received my Fonera 2.0n to my address in London, I wasn't very impressed with the packaging. Not only that, but apparently they couldn't manage to include a UK plug for the fonera and decided to include a travel power adaptor. Martin Varsavsky was cool enough to reply via twitter. Very nice touch. 

I don't want to go very deep in how to set it up because I'm not an expert. I plugged the fonera to the power socket and a ethernet cable (included) to my O2 Thomson WiFi router. That was easy.

Once the equipment is ready, you can see that your Wifi network is still there. You are able to use it with the same password. No need to set up anything. Then you have two other networks coming from the fonera: Private (My Place in my case) and FON_FREE (Public). The private one is for you to use, obvious, and through it you can access the fonera control panel, the dashboard. The public network can be used to share your WiFi for free or not. 

To access the Fonera Dashboard just type http://fonera, your private network password and username admin and you're in. 

This are my first impressions on the fonera. I have tried some of the features and so far Transmission is working fine. If there is interest I will write about it. 

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Posted 4 months ago

Fake iPhone nano updated: A lesson learned

 

This made the news for a day some time ago. The little iPhone nano. Yesterday after the keynote I remembered about it. 
via flickr.com

In the past December all the hype was with the "imminent release" iPhone nano. I was on vacation in Spain and spotted what appeared to be a chunky iPhone. It was indeed a knock-off of the iPhone with less functions (other than the obvious). There was something remarkable about this cheap fake in the middle of that bazaar. This iPhone was tiny! I even wanted to buy it ;)

I took this picture, submitted it to flickr and send the link to several rumor sites and blogs. I thought it could be funny how this picture would be relevant with the current Google Trends. Here is a graphic where you can see the impressive increase in the second week of December. Notice that this indicates the search of "iphone nano" and not "iphone" alone.

After New Year's Eve I checked my flickr visits and I could not believe it. The picture appeared linked at the end of a MacRumors articles, the picture was used in forums and blogs for illustration purposes.
In black my flickr stats for the same period. It peaks on the 30th with 8.000 views on that day. Google's graph is not to scale, but it is only made to spot that one week of high interest. I believe the first days is when I put the word out, and later on is through referencing. 

I'm posting this to hope that I can share this kind of interesting stuff and if possible help some people out there. A lesson learned.

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Posted 4 months ago

How The iPhone Is Blowing Everyone Else Away (In Charts)

via techcrunch.com

If you're interested in market trends and what is the implication of the iPhone wow factor, have a look at the TechCrunch article from a MorganStanley presentation.

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Posted 4 months ago

BBC iPlayer - Micro Men

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Posted 4 months ago

BBC iPlayer - Click: 17/10/2009

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Posted 4 months ago

@martinvars fonera 2.0n UK version with power adaptor out of the box 

via tweetie

UPDATE 18th October

Fon responds via twitter 
martinvars @appfreak well how r we to blame for u guys to have freakie plugs! At least we now ship the Fonera 2.0n to the UK..

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Posted 4 months ago