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Nokia Announces Profit Warning->

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jones_supa
jones_supa writes "Shares in the Finnish phone maker Nokia plunged by 15% on Tuesday as the company warned that it may make no profit on phone sales in the quarter to the end of June, and that overall phone sales will be "substantially below" its earlier forecast of €6.1bn to €6.6bn. Carolina Milanesi, mobile phones analyst for the research company Gartner, said Tuesday's warnings could mark the low point for Nokia, which has not made a loss in its handset division for more than a decade."
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Android now second biggest smartphone platform ->

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An anonymous reader writes "Google's initial success with its Android mobile operating system will continue — and in a very big way. That's according to research firm Strategy Analytics, which predicts that global shipments of Android-based smart phones will grow a stunning 900 percent this year.
  The second fastest-growing smart phone operating system will be Apple's iPhone, which will have a healthy 79 percent growth rate, the report predicts.

"Android has fast been winning healthy support among operators, vendors and developers," said Strategic Analytics senior analyst Tom Kang in a statement. "Android is now in a good position to become a top-tier player in smart phones over the next two to three years," he said."
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Microsoft

Microsoft and Nokia: A tale of two elephants->

Submitted by GMGruman
GMGruman writes "Nokia reabsorbs Symbian, and Microsoft ships Windows Phone 7 — to big yawns. InfoWorld's Galen Gruman draws out the parallels between Nokia and Microsoft's increasingly hapless effort to matter again in the world of mobile. Both have suffered from unstable directions and glacial pacing, and Nokia has been further damaged by relying on a committee-oriented open source process at a time it needed fast, forward-thinking technology leadership."
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The Internet

The dark little secret about IE9 and CSS3-> 1

Submitted by thestudio_bob
thestudio_bob writes "Microsoft has updated IE to support CSS3 selectors and rounded corners, they want us to believe that somehow IE9 magically supports the whole slew of CSS3 visual styling. I'm afraid it doesn't. As a matter of fact, IE9's support for CSS3 visual styling is so poor that the results are shocking. Firefox, Chrome and Safari can render graphically rich interfaces using the sophisticated features of CSS3. IE9 does, well, rounded corners. That's why I'm saying: IE9 is the IE6 of CSS3. Repeat that a few times until it sinks in because if you do Web development, you're going to have to deal with it."
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Comment: Cell Is Being Used Exactly How It Was Designed For (Score 2, Interesting) 124

by MediaStreams (#33868030) Attached to: IBM's Plans For the Cell Processor

Back in the early PS2 we would talk about what a next generation PS2 would look like. Those whiteboard diagrams looked almost identical to what Sony and IBM came up with.

The parallels between the PS2/EE/GS and PS3/Cell/RSX are almost identical:

Execution starts on the EE/PPU
Heavy/parallel computation task is spawned off to the VUs/SPUs
Light control code runs in parallel on the EE/PPU
As graphical elements become read to be rasterized they are spawned off to the GS/RSX

In a well running PS2/PS3 engine all three major areas are running full speed in parallel. Split memory architecture lets each area of the machine run at full speed without interfering with the rest of the system.

Kutagari and IBM did a masterful job. It was an obvious choice to build off the model of the most sucessful console architecture in history and the one all console developers had intimate knowledge of, the 145 million selling PS2.

Cellphones

Devs Bet Big on Android Over Apple's iOS->

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes "A majority of mobile app developers see Android as the smart bet over the long run even as they vote for Apple's iOS in the short term, a survey conducted jointly by Appcelerator and IDC published Monday has found. The survey,, polled more than 2,300 developers who use Appcelerator's Titanium cross-platform compiler to produce iOS and Android native apps. Of the 2,300 polled, 59% said that Android had the 'best long-term outlook,' compared with just 35% who pegged Apple's iOS with that label. But three out of four said that iOS offers the best 'near-term' outlook, with 76% tagging Apple's operating system as the best revenue opportunity. 'This is an 'ah-ha' moment for developers,' said Scoot Schwartzhoff, vice president of marketing at Appcelerator."
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Cellphones

Android Sales Top iphone In 1st-H 2010 Says Nielse->

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suraj.sun writes "Android Sales Top Iphone In First-Half 2010, Says Nielsen

Google's Android has overtaken Apple's iphone in the high-profile smartphone sweepstakes, according to one market research firm Nielsen.

New smartphone subscribers choosing Android handsets accounted for 27% of U.S. smartphone sales in the first half of the year, surpassing the 23% share held by iphones, the Nielsen Company said Monday.

Nielsen said sales of multipurpose smartphones, which let users browse the Web, check email, share pictures and run thousands of apps, accounted for 25% of the U.S. mobile market in the last quarter. The research group predicted smartphones will overtake feature phones in the U.S. market by the end of 2011.

Android has received a big boost from Verizon Wireless, which has aggressively marketed Motorola's Droid line of phones.

WSJ: http://online.sj.com/article/BT-CO-20100802-710294.html"
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