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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Let's do some Bloodbath news. How is the smartphone market doing mid-way in this Year 2 of Smartphones Bloodbath? The weather report for the summer is sunny for some, shady for others and stormy for some.
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APPLE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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As the second quarter is drawing to a furious sales crescendo in the next two weeks, analysts are coming out with predictions. Nomura says Samsung will be the biggest smartphone maker in 2Q'11.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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The Patient Heart Has Stopped. Now the Doctor 'helps' by starting to strangle the patient too (read: Stephen Elop's incompetence).
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BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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We finally have the numbers for all four major analyst houses. As always, we calculated the average of their totals to find the quarterly total smartphone sales - which came to 101.2 million, a 2% QoQ growth.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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I wrote updates of the Q3 results from Nokia and Apple, now the numbers 1 and 2 of the smartphone bloodbath. The rest of the contenders and pretenders are covered with this quick report.
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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Apple's quarterly results for the July-September quarter confirmed that the company has now entered the Top 5 biggest mobile phone makers overtaking RIM.
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APPLE, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE
NEWS
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With Europe switching one hour backwards, we were surprised to see two smarphone giants turning their products into "stupidphones".
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DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, BUSINESS
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The quick version - Samsung didn't pay much serious attention to smartphones until last year, but once it 'woke up' it has run on all cylinders. They tick all the boxes, and have a great strategy - which they are executing perfectly.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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As promised, here are the final numbers for the smartphone market shares for second quarter of 2010.
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
INTERVIEWS
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MAINGEAR decided to pull a very hard move and focus itself on redefining the PC experience. Their new SHIFT line-up is offering top performance and support, but is it enough?
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GRAPHICS, HARDWARE
INTERVIEWS
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Nobody arguably makes better LN2 [liquid nitrogen] containers than Kingpin Cooling. Vince Lucido aka k|ngp|n spoke with BSN* while recovering from some very painful tattoo work.
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GRAPHICS, SOFTWARE
NEWS
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If you want GPU acceleration in Adobe Premiere CS4, your only choice was a Quadro CX card. AMD is now changing the field, accelerating FirePros and Radeons.
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