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A telling quarter for Android
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Why Google is a more "typical" business than you think
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Adobe - Narayen's kingdom for a plan...
Adobe's Flash-era dominance is crumbling under mobile pressure and a lack of strategic focus. Adobe needs a hard reset. Drop bloated products, focus on core tools, and innovate fast.
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2010 will be the year Apple and Google have a cage fight
2010 is going to be a cage match between Apple and Google for mobile dominance. With Android's rapid growth and iPhone's ecosystem pressures, the battle lines are clearly being drawn.
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SPDY could gain acceptence - with some innovation
Google's SPDY could speed up the web, but browser upgrades alone are too slow. Gateway and router-level proxies are needed to accelerate adoption and deliver benefits to all sooner.
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AdMob purchase opens door to new funding models
The AdMob purchase by Google paves the way for some interesting developer funding opportunities
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An unofficial endorsement of the Android platform?
Facebook's official Android app signals that the platform is now a serious iPhone rival. It removes a key Apple differentiator, and sets up a fierce Android vs iOS battle.
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How Google can combat the flu
Huge, real time data sets can provide leading indicators of disease spikes well before they become evident to traditional sampling methods. Could Google search data be a new tool for epidemics.
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Bye bye OpenMoko
Google's new mobile OS feels like a missed opportunity to support existing open-source platforms such as OpenMoko. It adds more fragmentation to an already messy mobile ecosystem.