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Nielsen Wire:
iPhone vs. Android — Don Kellogg, Senior Manager, Research and Insights/Telecom Practice, The Nielsen Company — Whether it's checking email on the go, connecting with friends through social networks or using turn-by-turn navigation, the capabilities of smartphones are convincing …
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Android Phone Users More Willing to Switch to IPhone, Finds Nielsen — Apple's iPhone smartphone market share was 28 percent through the first quarter of 2010, more than tripling the 9 percent share garnered by Google's Android platform in a budding smartphone war that is still lopsided.
Kyle VanHemert / Gizmodo:
iPhone OS Still Triples Android's Market Share — Nielsen's new “iPhone vs. Android” report offers up the latest numbers in the big mobile battle: Both platforms have loyal users, but Apple's still on top by a long shot. — They don't come as much of a surprise, but with all the talk …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why Mark Zuckerberg should have a Carol Bartz moment — Watch live streaming video from disrupt at livestream.com — Everyone seems to be against Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, lately. — Shel Israel says he should step down. — Market Watch's Therese Poletti …
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
How a Silly Phone for Teens Reveals Microsoft's Plan for Us All — Despite its mobile prowess, Apple sucks at the internet. But surprisingly it's Microsoft—not Google—that's best positioned for Our Future in the Cloud. Here's why. — It's common for writers to trot out the Google/Apple binary.
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Dark Side Arises for Phone Apps — Security Concerns Prompt Warnings — As smartphones and the applications that run on them take off, businesses and consumers are beginning to confront a budding dark side of the wireless Web. — Online stores run by Apple Inc., Google Inc. and others …
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Bradford: Demand Media Will Take Out AOL First, Yahoo Later — Sales Chief Says Content Created by Lots of Humans, Not Some ‘Crazy Robot’ — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Joanne Bradford, the newly minted chief revenue officer for Demand Media, seems to be drawn to seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Safari 5 to be launched at WWDC with Safari Reader? — MacGeneration reports that Apple is planning on a major update to Safari at this week's WWDC. Safari 5 will apparently include a Reader functionality that will make web page reading easier by extracting and organizing the text.
Kellex / Droid Life:
Exclusive: More Droid Xtreme Shots Released — Who wanted a back shot of the Motorola Droid Xtreme? Well here you go. You can see the beastly 8MP camera is embedded in that hump which we all have mixed feelings about. And it indeed says “HD VIDEO” up there.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Join The Cult! Facebook Hoodie With Mysterious Insignia Found On eBay — Earlier this week during an interview at the D8 conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did the unthinkable: after finding the hotseat a little too toasty for his liking, he took off his hoodie.
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Making online orders with a nod or a smile? Bezos seeks patent — Amazon.com is famous for its 1-Click ordering system. But what about 1-Nod ordering? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is seeking a patent on a system that would let people make purchases with a nod, a smile or even a raise of the eyebrow.
Clay Shirky / Wall Street Journal:
Does the Internet Make You Smarter? — Amid the silly videos and spam are the roots of a new reading and writing culture, says Clay Shirky. — Digital media have made creating and disseminating text, sound, and images cheap, easy and global. The bulk of publicly available media …
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AppleInsider:
WWDC 2010 banners focus on iPhone OS 4 features, App Store success — Apple has hung even more banners inside the Moscone Center in San Francisco for its forthcoming Worldwide Developer Conference, but they don't reveal any details about what the company plans to announce on Monday.
