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Take a good hard look at the motherf*cking success of this app

Oct 1, 2009
The T-Pain app is a huge hit. 300,000 downloads in a couple of weeks, average of 66 minutes spent on the app per user which is ludicrously sticky...

Loose Thought

Sep 30, 2009
I wonder if netbooks can really take over the world if I laugh at them (internally) when I see them out in public. I'm not saying I definitely will...

Google at war with developer, itself

Sep 29, 2009
Interesting read about goings on over at One Infinite Loop. Essentially, an outside developer built a modification for the Android operating system...

Zipcar app launches

Sep 29, 2009
Find a car, book a car, unlock the door, even honk the horn from your iPhone. I must agree with John Gruber that this is one of those things that...

Walkman outsells iPod

Sep 4, 2009
And not just in a strange upside down universe but in Japan too. It's the digital Walkman, not the cassette player.

There's a quote that gets your attention

Sep 2, 2009
"Smartphones will account for 45.5% of all mobile phone sales in 2013, up from just over 9% last year."...

Adorable!

Sep 1, 2009
The Samsung Application Store. Samsung. Can the Sanyo app store be far behind? Yes. Yes it can.