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submission
hoagiecat writes:
Is Apple like all those bands who claim to be "huge in Japan"? Leopard accounted for 53 percent of boxed operating systems sold in Japan in October — even though it was only on sale for the last six days of the month.
321645
submission
hoagiecat writes:
eBay isn't just an enormous auction site; it's also a publisher of Google and Yahoo targeted ads, which earn eBay money every time a user clicks on them. But those clicks take users to a new page, and lead them away from the auctions — and those who make their living from those auctions are starting to get upset. Is eBay doing the right thing to make some extra cash from the hot advertising market? Or are they cannibalising their income and hurting the sellers who have been the backbone of their business?
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submission
hoagiecat writes:
Web developers want mobile phone users to be able to access their sites, but mobile browsers generally choke on heavyweight HTML put together for traditional Web browsers. A host of services have sprung up that will allow two sites — one for mobile users, one for PC users — to exist at the same URL, with the user browser agent used to distinguish between the two. Vodafone has come at the problem from the other end, offering a new service that translates traditional Web pages into mobile-friendly ones on the fly — but it seems to strip out the user agent in the process, breaking sites designed around the other strategy. And Web devlopers are *mad*. Will similar moves by other carriers disrupt the nascent Web development ecosystem?
