Daily Archives: November 7, 2011

CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Has 4% Of The Phone Market, And 52% Of Its Profits (AAPL, RIMM, MOT, GOOG, MSFT, NOK)

November 7, 2011
CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Has 4% Of The Phone Market, And 52% Of Its Profits (AAPL, RIMM, MOT, GOOG, MSFT, NOK)

Apple has only 4% of the total phone market, but captures 52% of its profits according to Canaccord Genuity analysts T. Michael Walkley and Mattew Ramsay. See Also: CHART OF THE DAY: How Apple Makes Huge Profits On “$200″ iPhones STEVE JOBS: The Biggest Mistake Apple Made After I Left Was Focusing On Profits...

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Yahoo Has Valuable Patents. Does Microsoft Have Rights To Them? (MSFT, YHOO)

November 7, 2011
Yahoo Has Valuable Patents. Does Microsoft Have Rights To Them? (MSFT, YHOO)

Steve Ballmer knows the value of patents. Image: AP See Also: GM Is About To Move 100,000 Employees To Google Apps Eric Schmidt: Actually, Google’s Market Share Is Lower Than You Think The One Chart You Need To See To Understand Mobile Yahoo may have one undervalued asset: its patents. As Eric Jackson at...

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Synaptics Demonstrates Windows 8 Trackpad Gestures On Video

November 7, 2011
Synaptics Demonstrates Windows 8 Trackpad Gestures On Video

We heard a while back that Windows 8 would support multi-touch via the trackpad. Sure, there’s some stuff you can do right now, but the promise made by Microsoft and Synaptics has been deferred for the most part. But they’ve put up a video that shows just how you can expect to interact with...

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Hands On With Microsoft’s New Windows Phones

November 7, 2011

Our own Josh Zelman grabbed some video of the new Windows Phones announced today, including the $50 Samsung Focus Flash. These are Microsoft’s initial stabs at attacking the mid-range market in advance of Nokia’s upcoming WinPho models. The new phones include the Samsung Focus S and the HTC Radar HTC, priced at $199 and...

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Eric Schmidt, Patents, and the ‘Sword of Damocles’ Defense

November 7, 2011
Eric Schmidt, Patents, and the ‘Sword of Damocles’ Defense

After having failed spectacularly, the Senate Antitrust Committee sent Schmidt a huge questionnaire comprised of things it thinks it should have asked when it had the opportunity, disguised as requests for clarification. One of those clarifications concerned an e-mail from Android contributing engineer Dan Morrill, which was quoted in a one-paragraph “story” on the...

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Day 1 of Google+ Pages: The Muppets Fall Flat, But Brands Are Trying to Engage

November 7, 2011
Day 1 of Google+ Pages: The Muppets Fall Flat, But Brands Are Trying to Engage

One thing to note is that Google+ Pages still need a bit of work. For example, currently only one person can administer a Page. However Google+ engineer Dennis Troper assured everyone that “this is just the beginning!” Specifically, he stated that “a few of your top requests we’ve already started working on, such as...

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Secret panorama mode in iPhone camera discovered

November 7, 2011
Secret panorama mode in iPhone camera discovered

iOS hacker and jailbreak developer Conrad Kramer has discovered a secret panorama mode in the default camera app on the iPhone, according to a report by iDownloadBlog. It’s not fully baked yet, but you can enable it if you’re willing to jailbreak your iPhone. While poking around with the innards of iOS, Kramer found...

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This could be the most ridiculous Lady Gaga cover you ever see

November 7, 2011

This video of a choir of old Chinese people covering Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance is arguably one of the most memorable interpretations of the star’s music that we’ve ever seen. The footage, which was broadcast to hundreds of millions through Chinese top satellite channel Hunan TV, is a clear indication of Lady Gaga’s massive...

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Photos: Best Buy’s quiet home energy stores

November 7, 2011
Photos: Best Buy’s quiet home energy stores

SAN CARLOS, Calif. – Retail giant Best Buy announced last week that it’s making a modest bet on selling home energy gear to consumers via a new web portal and new Home Energy sections at just three stores nationwide. The three store sections — in San Carlos, Calif; Chicago; and Willowbrook, Texas — were officially...

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Eric Schmidt: Web competition is alive and well — just ask VCs

November 7, 2011
Eric Schmidt: Web competition is alive and well — just ask VCs

Google chairman Eric Schmidt San Francisco startup Hipmunk has received some $5 million in venture capital funding for its nicely designed travel search engine. But does this really mean that it stands to compete with travel offerings from a company like Google, a search technology leader with a market cap of some $200 billion?...

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