Techmeme: The Android UI Dilemma: Unify or Differentiate? (Ben Hookway/VisionMobile

1:10 PM ET, November 1, 2010

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Apple takes the lead in the US smart phone market with a 26% share — In Q3 2010, the worldwide smart phone market grew an impressive 95% over the same quarter a year ago to 80.9 million shipped units. Nokia retained its leadership position, albeit by a diminished margin, with a 33% share of the market.

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Canalys: iPhone becomes most popular smartphone in the US, Android continues as most popular OS — The Canalys numbers are out, and with Android coming off an 886 percent jump reported at the end of the second quarter we were expecting something big. So, here it is: Android …

Discussion: The Next Web, Android Phone Fans and MacStories

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

NPD: Android Surging, BlackBerry Falling, Apple Flat — Here's a chart pretty much guaranteed to get teeth grinding in Cupertino - new data from NPD showing Android extending its lead as America's most popular mobile operating system. — The consumer research group says that Google's software …

Discussion: Fortune, GigaOM, Signal to Noise, Electronista and hypebot

PRWeb:

The NPD Group: Android Extends its Smartphone Market Share in the Third Quarter of 2010 — iPhone 4 was the top-selling mobile phone in the third quarter; RIM falls to third place among operating systems — Much of Android's quarterly share growth came at the expense of RIM, rather than Apple.

Discussion: Mobile Entertainment

Stephen Hutcheon / Sydney Morning Herald:

Why I quit Google to join Facebook: Lars Rasmussen — Lars Rasmussen, the Sydney-based co-founder of Google Maps has spoken publicly for the first time about why he quit his job and joined the growing band of high profile Googlers who have switched allegiances to Facebook.

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google's Real Problem - GTD?

Discussion: Sydney Morning Herald, The Register, FM Blog, broadstuff and Delimiter

Dave / Master of 500 Hats:

How to Take Down Facebook — Hint: It Ain't Twitter. (aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) — I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. It wouldn't be accurate to say there's something “wrong” with Facebook …

Discussion: Signal to Noise and broadstuff, Thanks:davemcclure

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:

iPhone DST bug causing alarms to fail across Europe (updated) — An iPhone bug already seen when Australia switched between Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time a few weeks ago has now hit Europe. Twitter is alight with reports of recurring iPhone alarms going off an hour later than usual.

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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Blekko, The “Slashtag” Search Engine, Goes Live — Blekko, the long anticipated search engine founded by Rich Skrenta, has finally opened to the public. The service offers an interesting way to “slash” or create specialty search engines for any topic, along with new features the company hopes will improve relevancy.

Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
Blekko's SEO Tools: What Information Do They Provide?

Discussion: SAI and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

Skrentablog:
Crowdsourcing search relevance

Discussion: Computerworld and CNN

Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:

Intel Grants Rare Access to Start-Up — Chip Giant Will Manufacture Achronix's Semiconductors Using Most Advanced Production Process — Intel Corp. has agreed to make chips for a semiconductor start-up, the first time the Silicon Valley giant has given another company access to its most advanced production processes.

Discussion: Pulse2, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Inquirer, Reuters, Electronista and TechEye

Stephen Shankland / CNET News:

Browser momentum: Chrome has it, IE doesn't — Chrome sliced away another half a percentage point of usage share from rival browsers in October 2010. — For browser watchers, October was a continuation of previous trends: Internet Explorer lost share to Chrome while Firefox and Opera idled and Safari edged upward.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Windows Blog, Download Squad, Electronista, winrumors and Crave

Emily B. Hager / New York Times:

IPad Opens World to a Disabled Boy — OWEN CAIN depends on a respirator and struggles to make even the slightest movements — he has had a debilitating motor-neuron disease since infancy. — Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver a computer mouse, but when a nurse propped …

Discussion: Gizmodo and Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com

Ben Hookway / VisionMobile :: blog:

The Android UI Dilemma: Unify or Differentiate? — [The UI of Android mobile devices is at the epicenter of a conflict between Google and the OEM struggle for differentiation. Guest author Ben Hookway analyses why Google's UI strategy will be paramount to its proliferation as Android moves to multiple screens]

Discussion: Daring Fireball

Joanna Stern / Engadget:

ViewSonic ViewPad 7 and 10 officially comin' to America — ViewSonic's heavy foray into the tablet market has been no secret, but we've been a bit uncertain as to where on the map its products would land. Until now that is. According to ViewSonic's American team, the company will be kicking off …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Crave, TechEye, Viewsonic, PC World, Softpedia News, Electronista, TechSpot, The Tech Report, Gearlog, BlogsDNA and GottaBeMobile

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Google Sues The US Government For Only Considering Microsoft Solutions — Eric Goldman alerts us to the interesting bit of news that Google has sued the US government — specifically the Department of the Interior, for not seriously considering Google Apps when it put out a Request for Quotation (RFQ) to handle its messaging needs.

Wall Street Journal:

EBay Attempts to Clean Up the Clutter — Redesign This Week Uses Technological Overhaul to Organize Thousands of Listings — As eBay Inc. prepares for a critical holiday shopping season, the company this week plans to unveil new elements of an overhaul in how shoppers find and buy products on its Web site.

Discussion: Switched and AuctionBytes Blog

Jayne O'Donnell / USA Today:
EBay makes it easier for friends, relatives to chip in for gifts

Discussion: Go Rumors

Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:

Use Hotmail features without changing your email address — If you've been reading this blog for the last few months, you've seen lots of new features added to Hotmail that make Hotmail more efficient, like Sweep or the ability to send up to 10GB of photos in one message.

Discussion: The Next Web

Andrew Munchbach / BGR:

T-Mobile officially launches 200MB data plan, tethering plan — Following up on an exclusive from last week, T-Mobile has officially announced two new data offerings for its smartphone customers: a 200MB data plan and a tethering add-on. — The new, 200MB data plan option …

Discussion: T-Mobile News …, Electronista, Pulse2 and Engadget

Kit Eaton / Fast Company:

Disney, Warner Win $400k Case Against Firm With Ads on Pirate Sites, Google Could Be Next — Disney and Warner Bros have just won $400,000 in damages from a web advertiser that “helped fund” piracy by supplying ads for pirate websites. Is Google, the biggest web ads provider, rightly or wrongly next on the legal list?

Discussion: The Register

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