- RIM’s tailspin | asymco
"The number of BlackBerry phones sold fell 41% year-on-year in the last RIM fiscal quarter. Sequentially the fall was 30%." A sobering analysis (analysis dopost financials mobile rim )
- How British are you? The alternative citizenship test | John Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"1. What is the first line of The Sex Pistols’ God Save The Queen?" And other difficult questions (quiz politics citizenship )
- Olympic Park legacy plan threatens Tech City growth, report warns | Business | guardian.co.uk
"The report says Tech City, a burgeoning group of businesses that have grown up around the so-called Silicon Roundabout on Old Street in east London, is far larger than had been realised, comprising 3,200 VAT-registered firms employing 48,000 people." (olympics dopost report silicon_roundabout )
- The ‘Busy’ Trap – NYTimes.com
There is another way… "Not long ago I Skyped with a friend who was driven out of the city by high rent and now has an artist’s residency in a small town in the south of France. She described herself as happy and relaxed for the first time in years. She still gets her work done, but it doesn’t consume her entire day and brain. She says it feels like college — she has a big circle of friends who all go out to the cafe together every night." (happiness work_life_balance productivity )
- Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered; e-mail lost | Internet & Media – CNET News
"Facebook's new unified e-mail and its implementation is causing unwanted changes to users' address books; worse, the changes have gone unnoticed by users and vital communication is being lost. [...] It has now been revealed that automatic altering of users' contacts without notification was, in fact, disturbingly actually built into Apple's new iOS 6 Facebook integration: Facebook for iOS will change address books without any warning." (ios failure dopost facebook email )
- Careful, Twitter — remember what happened to MySpace and Digg — Tech News and Analysis
"Twitter sent some shock waves through the technology community with a blog post on Friday that talked about its plans for the future, and suggested that those plans don’t necessarily involve third-party services and apps." (dopost business_strategy api twitter )
- Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS | The Mozilla Blog
"The Firefox OS for mobile devices is built on Mozilla’s “Boot to Gecko project” which unlocks many of the current limitations of web development on mobile, allowing HTML5 applications to access the underlying capabilities of a phone, previously only available to native applications. Telefónica’s Digital unit joined forces with Mozilla earlier this year to take this work and showcase a new phone architecture where every phone feature (calling, messaging, games, etc.) is an HTML5 application." (html5 dopost mobile firefox_os mozilla )
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