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I went to the link below to look at some of the apps. I clicked Top Free tab and scanned through the featured apps. As Google puts it: “This is a showcase for some of the featured and top ranked applications and games available on Android Market”. Note the spelling in some of these top [...]

A few years ago I read a book called “Breaking Windows” which was the story of the DOJ investigation into Microsoft’s abuse of monopoly. The book was written by a journalist who tried to summarize some of the findings from the published internal emails. One of the takeaways was the logic of Microsoft’s entry into [...]

Frequent readers of this blog know they’re in good company. There have been over 1000 comments in but a few months and, without any qualification, they have all been valuable. I’ve been delighted that contributing readers are not only civil and polite, but that they almost always move the intellectual level of the blog higher. [...]

There is a rush to market a whole new batch of tablets. Here’s another one. They all bear an outward resemblance to another tablet that was widely panned. So what strikes me about all of these designs is that they’re basically just shiny rectangular things. There is very little you can do as a vendor [...]

Much of what is published here relies on data, lots of data. It’s important that data be published along with conclusions, but data in spreadsheets is often difficult to read. Spreadsheets are not “productized” so they are hard to explain and therefore impossible to share. However, I am considering sharing the data I have in [...]

Tear of joy, that is. Georg Friedrich Händel – Oratorio – Messiah, HWV 56 Part 2, No. 44 Chorus Performed by The English Concert & Choir

This site is fairly new. It has been around for only about 6 months. In that time there have been 393 postings and 586 comments. It has been read 100k times and I’ve moved it three times to accommodate this growth. Lately, thanks to links from John Gruber’s Daring Fireball, views have increased dramatically (to [...]

Apple just had its best quarter ever with net income rising 78 percent to $3.51 per share. Revenue rose 61 percent, to $15.7 billion. On average, Wall Street analysts had expected Apple to report net income of $3.12 a share on revenue of $14.75 billion. If this is a double dip recession, then I’ll take [...]

Asymco.com is now touch friendly. Visit this site with an iPhone for a touch optimized experience. Mobile theme is WPtouch. This posting is also made using the WordPress app for iPhone and geotagged with my approximate location. At this location one has to do with only Edge and no broadband (or electricity or running water). [...]

An Ericsson survey shows that the number of global subscriptions to mobile phone services has passed over 5 billion. The global population is estimated at 6.9 billion. It’s hard to estimate what 100% penetration in this industry is but there is a strong possibility for another billion accounts to be added in the next year. [...]