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Chirp.io uses sound to transmit & receive links between nearby Android/iOS devices. IMO, interesting tech[1], thats more useful & less secure than bluetooth, for such use cases.

[1] http://chirp.io/tech/

Best Buy has announced that Nexus S will be available on Dec16th for $529 (unlocked) and $199 (with T-mobile contract). More info at - http://www.bby.com/2010/12/06/best-buy-mobile-partners-with-...

The exact model is available with free shipping throughout Europe at play.com - http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/11521117/Veho-VMS-004D-Deluxe-...

Anssi Vanjoki (EVP Nokia), pretty much offered a mea culpa on N97 not meeting consumer expectations - "it has been a tremendous disappointment in terms of the experience quality for the consumers". Have a look at the video http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/11183_Video_Anssi_V...

Seems like the Symbian version of Spotify is not far away, either http://twitter.com/s_constantine/status/2868529762.

IF they keep their pace of innovation, music industry in europe is bound for a shakeup.

Jan Chipchase (resident anthropologist @Nokia) calls them Informal repair culture. Neither Nokia nor it's competitors publish an official hacking manual. This has evolved from a need to have a cellphone 24x7 & where the market is highly sensitive to price. Read, Informal repair culture: http://www.janchipchase.com/repaircultures.

Quoting verbatim: "The informal repair services that are offered are quite simply driven by necessity - highly price sensitive customers cannot afford to go through more expensive official customer care centers and even if they could their phones are unlikely to be covered by warrantee - having been bought through grey market channels, been sent as gifts from friends and relatives abroad, or were locally bought used, second or third+ ownership. In many cases these users cannot afford to be without their mobile phone, not in the social sense of being out of touch (which is valid enough), but in many instances because their livelihoods depend on it. On the supply side there is a ready pool of sufficiently skilled labour, ready access to tools, comp"

The chance that a small business can take advantage of scale is next to nil, as the supply chain would have peaked before small business can source at the same price levels.

Arctic startup has a go at success of Spotify and what it could mean to the future of iTunes.

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009/05/12/the-future-of-spotif...

IMO, Spotify's popularity means that they're already a prime acquisition target.

The question is not if Twitter or press needs a 104 yr old member. The right question - does she believe she needs it?

Adsweep (almost similar functionality as Adblock) is a greasemonkey script that works well for chrome. They have also released a extension for chrome. http://www.adsweep.org

April fools day arrives early. Enjoy the article and have fun but get back to the reality of having to support IE6.

Extreme Tech has a detailed (annoying multipage) writeup on the offering and the overview of technology involved. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2343703,00.asp

Onlive's offering will be a combination of service and/or device with all the rendering happening on the servers. One key stumbling block for adoption will be ISP's, in an era where they're capping downloads.

As pointed by business week(via trak.in), the innovations made by Tata Nano are:

   1. The car was built from ground up.
   2. The supply chain was simplified by making the suppliers partners.
   3. Shipping the whole car as kits for the downstream distributors to assemble, thus reducing several costs.
   4. The key success factor for Tata Nano project was price. The price was fixed and everything else just worked around it.

It will be interesting to know the median household income superimposed on this.

Some more details. From the faq, Store to include applications for both S60(Symbian) and Series 40 devices, including: Java, Flash applications, widgets, ringtones etc.. Store to go live on March 2nd. Supports both pay via credit card and operator billing (discussion on with individual operators)

Source: https://publish.ovi.com/#FAQ http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/live/

Seems like google has done a good job on privacy. From Mashable "When it comes to privacy, Google seems to have done it right, since absolutely everything about Latitude is opt-in...you can set it up so that your wife always sees you at work. Why you’d want to do that, we leave to your imagination." http://mashable.com/2009/02/04/google-latitude/

From the article, "this chip will have the capability to power machines with up to 8 hours of battery life, with a display as large as 8.9 inches". We can finally hope for a long lasting laptop without having to weigh 4kgs (or 9 lbs).