For every Intel server sold (irrespective of operating system) there are simply thousands of PCs sold. It further doesn't help that the vast majority of servers are generally not used to surf the web, while most PCs are... which will further deflate the number or Linux servers counted by services such as StatCounter.

So, from a unit count perspective, I hardly doubt that including the number of servers running Linux in the count is going to make a noticeable dent in the Linux market share statistic.

Server's have a larger market share of value spent (and to a lessor degree of CPU cores sold), than the units sold would suggest.

Yup... t'was the Senate Judiciary hearing in August Last year iOS Devices Earn Google 4 Times More Revenue Than Android Devices

I am not sure which hole you have been burrowed under over the last few weeks, but the statement that "...what Google makes on Android is still a whole lot more than what it makes on iPhones." is completely false... On the contrary. Google makes 4 time more revenue on iOS than it does on Android (Google's Android has generated just $550m since 2008) and that is before one even takes into account the cost of developing, maintaining and supporting Android.

I have the iWork apps on my iPad (and before that I relied on documents to go).

I rarely create new documents on my iPad, but I do a lot of editing, proof reading, and finalisation of documents that I then share, send on, present, etc. I consider myself highly productive on my iPad - even though I still have a notebook at my desk on which I will knock together complex presentations or spreadsheets, before iCloud syncs them onto my iPad where I will continue working on them or present them from using key note or numbers. In a typical day I spend about an hour or two in front of my notebook at my desk; and the rest of the day is spent on my iPad in meetings, workshops, waiting rooms, aeroplanes, etc.

I doubt that having Microsoft Office for the iPad will change the way I work, much. I suspect that there will be less fixing and tiding up of PowerPoint or Word documents that Keynote or Pages mangled during the conversion process. But I will still spend more than half my time on the iPad reading, editing, changing, commenting on spreadsheets, presentations and documents in collaboration with others and am unlikely to change the volume of material authored from scratch on the iPad itself just because I now have Office for the iPad.

Yeah... when you look at the global stats (not just the US and Europe) you see that about a third of all smart phones sold each quarter run Symbian OS. http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201101-201112-bar

It is easy to forget that when we talk about iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone, we are talking about touch screen smart phones - which still make a tiny portion of the number of handsets sold globally, but a huge portion of the revenues earned by the industry.

The reason for the high rate of defection is not because Android is not as good as iOS, but rather because so many people pick up free (on a two year contract) low end Android devices and those really tend to be very bad.

Google has done such a great job of showing people what a great platform Android is that people start to think that every Android handset is like a Galaxy S. Many people are still picking up no-name-brand Chinese specials running an outdated version of Android and cursing their decision everyday. Not every Android device is a Galaxy S2... and consumers need to realise that.

More than half of Verizon smartphone sales in Q4 were iPhones
Read more: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-57365200-233/more-than-half-of-verizon-smartphone-sales-in-q4-were-iphones/#ixzz1kQco5gZ4

And the rest is shared between all the numerous Android manufacturers, not to mention RIM (which is still hanging in there), the smattering of Windows Phone manufacturers and a hodge-podge of low end smart phones still running Samsung's Bada or Nokia's Symbian.

You are correct... Android is not a company with its own income statement. The Android handset manufactures compete among themselves as much as they compete against the iPhone. And the thing that is rarely ever said out loud (only whispered in dark tech filled corners) is that the majority of the Android registrations that Google cites in its numbers are cheap low end hand sets that most people pick up for free on a two year contract...

The Android standard bearers such as the Galaxy S2 and some of the HTC models are easily as good as or better than the iPhone... but so many people are entering the smartphone world at the bottom end; and that space is filled with so many so-so Android devices, it is understandable why some (39% according to the latest research) make the switch to an iPhone as soon as they can.

I think that this is part of the U.S. problem... The U.S. spent so much time ahead of the rest of the world that it convinced itself that its models for everything were the best and failed to see the rest of the world passing by with different models. To this day, I still here many Americans criticising anything that is different to how it is in the U.S.

Just because China's labour laws are different does not mean that they are non-existant. Nobody is forced into working under slave conditions in China, the communist state takes care of most of the basics. However, people aspire for more than what the state can offer... so they migrate to the cities and try out their luck in one of the many factories. Right now in China's evolution, the labour supply exceeds the demand, so the bargaining power of workers in negotiating better labour conditions and conditions of service is very weak. That will change in time (like it did in Europe and North America)...

Dude... if each unit is being sold at a loss... then selling tons of them at the same loss making price simply loses RIM a lot more money... a lot faster.

When people talk about "making it up on volume", what they are referring to is when each unit is making a small or marginal profit... so, the only way to turn that into a more attractive proposition is to sell a whole lot more of whatever stuff they are selling. Volume does not magically turn a loss making line into a profitable line; however, it can turn a marginal line into a handsomely profitable one (if costs associated with ramping up volume can be contained)

We shouldn't confuse Amazon's and Barnes & Noble’s smart and innovative content driven strategies with RIM's confused and incoherent "copy whatever Apple is doing" strategy.

People have such short memories (or are too young to remember).

When the iMac came out without a floppy disk dive in 1998, exactly the same sentiment was expressed. PC makers gasped, then heckled Apple... But before long they too followed suite and started gradually phasing out floppy disk drives.

Then too, it was the dreaded focus group that dragged out the eventual demise of the floppy - people like you in focus groups saying "... keep the floppy drive, just in case I need to revert to my trusty sneaker-net". Of course we know what every focus group has to say about Adobe Flash... just about the same thing that they have to say about the CD drive now.

Steve Jobs loathed focus groups... that kind of makes sense when you are launching something that consumers do not know they need yet, like a new product. But focus group are useful tools, when used properly. The problem I have found (at least in financial services) is that focus groups are use to make the decision, instead of gauging the acceptability of a decision.

I don't know where you get that from... but I can tell you for certain that we (Vodafone) charge every mobile network operater a hefty roaming fee whenever their customers cross into any of our extensive data networks - nobody gets a free ride, not even blackberry users. Since RIM have not built an alternative internet, i am pretty certain that, each time you roam, somebody pays. I suspect that what you are considering free email, is probably built into your blackberry package... and since RIM has always prided itself with how little data their devices use, I suspect that the roaming data costs are so small that it does not make for a significant reason to break out the email roaming costs separately.

Spurred by booming demand for the iPhone and iPad, Apple Inc. in 2010 became the largest buyer of semiconductors among original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for the rst time ever, new IHS iSuppli research indicates. http://www.isuppli.com/Semiconductor-Value-Chain/MarketWatch/Pages/Apple-Becomes-Worlds-Largest-OEM-Semiconductor-Buyer-in-2010.aspx

FTA: Apple’s surge to leadership in semiconductor spending in 2010 was driven by the overwhelming success of its wireless products, namely the iPhone and the iPad. These products consume enormous quantities of NAND flash memory, which is also found in the Apple iPod. Because of this, Apple in 2010 was the world’s No. 1 purchaser of NAND flash.

Without belabouring the point... I think that it is common knowledge in the semiconductor industry that Apple is buying up all the semiconductor factory capacity they can get their hands on - more than even HP, Dell, Samsung, Nokia, Sony, etc. Apple has created a global shortage of certain components (not always because Apple has bought up the supply for that component, but often because Apple has bought up the chip fab capacity for its own custom components) leaving smaller oems without the off-the-shelf components that they need for their products.

The chatter that I am getting in the industry is that Samsung will (not may) loose more by pissing Apple off than they could ever hope to gain because they don't own the Android market and can never hope to replace the revenue generated from Apple with Android phone/tablet sales. Toshiba and Sony are lobbying Apple to get more of their chip business as we speak.

FTA: "The applications took advantage of known vulnerabilities which don’t affect Android versions 2.2.2 or higher..."

So if a malware writer takes advantage of a vulnerability in an old or unpatched instance of Windows its Microsoft's fault... but if they take advantage of an exploit in Android its not Google's fault.

This logic does not compute.

I thought all modern TVs could do this... The last two flat screens I have bought (a 46" Sansui and more recently a 52" Samsung) both have serial ports that can wake up the TV. The Sansui came with a command manual and I used to wake it up whenever my MVix media centre woke up by running a batch file that pipes the output to the com port with the wake up command to the Sansui.

My Samsung did not come with a command manual, so I haven't tried this on it.

I think that you will find that you are probably able to wake up your TV through the USB port... after all it is just a glorified serial port

Are you nuts... have you ever been to Johannesburg... there are over 100,000 (yes, over one hundred thousand traffic lights in Johannesburg alone). Johannesburg is not a little village... it is a massive city with over 5 million people living and working there. The networking costs would be huge. Far cheaper to simply use the existing GSM network... remember, the lights are not sending monitoring data (i.e. they do not need a sophisticated data link like GPRS), they are just sending status or fault alerts which are better send using SMS or USSD