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RT @wired: Smartphones are replacing dedicated digital cameras,right? Here's a look at data supporting that assumption.

RT @davemcclure: RT @NYTimes: "THEY CAN TAKE AWAY MY IPAD (on takeoff), BUT THEY CANNA TAKE AWAY MY ***FREEDOM***!!!"

This is why, despite being a superior PRODUCT to Android, Windows Phone has not sold as well. Spending marketing dollars on advertising Android devices is and easy decision for the carriers. Pushing RSPs to push Android is easy. Spending marketing dollars advertising WP7 requires Microsoft to push hard on the carriers. Getting RSPs to push WP7 requires Microsoft to push hard on the carriers to incent their RSPs correctly.

Mobile carriers are not evil or stupid. They are capitalists. That often produces behavior that appears to be evil and/or stupid. Depressingly often, in fact. But there’s usually a business reason for that behavior. And those who are arguing the paranoid case are ignoring those business models.

Mobile-software developers have long complained about Apple's limits on them. Chief among their gripes is Apple's rule that developers registered through its standard developer program cap testing of their app to 100 devices before the software is sold in the app store. Developers say the rule curtails the amount of feedback they receive to improve their apps.

The Local, a French newspaper, reports Google France was ordered to pay €50,000 ($64,670) to Lyonnaise de Garantie, a French insurance company over a search suggestion that had them labeled as being a “crook.”

RT @WiredFeed: Gear of the Year: See the list of our favorite products we tested in 2011.

A preview of what will happen all the time under SOPA.

Ive’s official title is a Knight Commander of the British Empire. Ive, who was born and raised in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States to pursue design work, said that the honor is “absolutely thrilling.”

The project's organisers said the Hackerspace Global Grid will also involve developing a grid of ground stations to track and communicate with the satellites.

Wow! IFTTT for Dropbox.

Just a day after it confirmed that it would be adding a $2 'convenience fee' for paying bills online or over the phone, Verizon's cancelled the charge, citing negative customer feedback as the reason for the shift. The fee was set to go into effect on January 15th.

Dropbox folder actions | Wow! IFTTT for Dropbox. |

On Wednesday, “Siri for Android” by app publisher “Official App” hit the Android Market, launching on the Google marketplace to deliver what many are going to believe is an official port of Apple’s Siri software to Android smartphones. In reality, it’s a shortcut that launches Google’s built-in Voice Actions — and it’s already been installed on more than 1000 devices.

Doh! The top 10 tech 'fails' of 2011 - | |

RT @newsyc20: Techs Relationship With Depression, Suicide and Aspergers ()

we can now confidently say that Apple’s next iPhone will launch in the fall next year, around the same time that this year’s iPhone 4S launched

Google's Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome | |

Microsoft's MSN Direct — an unusual low-bandwidth data service using FM radio subcarriers across the country to transmit weather, traffic, news headlines, stocks, and the like — was shut down on schedule yesterday.

According to sources close to the situation, Apple is planning an important — but not large-scale — event to be held in New York at the end of this month that will focus on a media-related announcement.

According to the source the event will not involve any hardware at all and instead will focus on publishing and eBooks (sold through Apple’s iBooks platform) rather than iAds. Attendance will also be more publishing industry-oriented than consumer-focused.

Just before Christmas, shipping estimates for Apple's 12-core Mac Pro model increased to 1-3 weeks, and while that specific model does tend to occasionally see some extra lead time, the shipping delays were later noticed to have extended to nearly any customized Mac Pro order. Even as simple a customization as increasing the RAM on an "In Stock" standard Mac Pro configuration increases its shipping estimate to 1-3 weeks.

Famed Android developer Koushik Dutta has released a new Android tethering app that doesn't require root access. It's called ClockworkMod Tether, and while this isn't the first root-free tethering app for Android (the ancient PdaNet comes to mind), Koush claims that the app is not detectable or blockable by carriers.

Apple closed out 2011 with a commanding 52.1 percent share of mobile devices tracked browsing the Web, while Google's Android had just 16.2 percent. The latest figures from Net Applications show that iOS represented more than half of mobile devices seen online in December. In second place was Java ME with 21.3 percent, while Android came in third.

fter a one-month pause, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) resumed its usage share slide in December, dropping to a new low and setting the stage for a fall below 50% as early as March. IE lost eight-tenths of a percentage point last month to end with a share of 51.9%, according to California-based metrics company Net Applications. IE dropped more than seven points during 2011.

Hitwise: U.S. Google+ traffic leaps 55 percent in December | Deep Tech - CNET News | |

Google launches hub for 2012 elections | Digital Media - CNET News | |

Google Ad Buyer Unruly Media Defends Google Chrome Ads - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD | |

Larry Page named ‘CEO of the year’ by Investors Business Daily | 9to5Google | Beyond Good and Evil | |

The Commodore 64 is 30 • reghardware | |