• #shortyawards #politics @JIDF b/c he will win always #

• #shortyawards #politics @JIDF bc he's leading the fight #

• Noveau Art : http://is.gd/4SL2O #

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A Motorola Droid smart phone goes on sale Friday, joining the growing ranks of smart phones on the open-source operating system backed by Google.
With Droid, which will work on the Verizon telecom network, Motorola is taking on mobile devide powerhouses such as Apple, Nokia and Research in Motion (RIM).
"People are gravitating to Android phones because they are different and trendy. Droid may be the new ‘in’ phone," said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group in Silicon Valley.
Taiwan-based HTC brought the first Android phone to market late last year.
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt recently proclaimed that the smart phone market was on the cusp of an "explosion" of Android devices.
Market tracking firm Gartner agrees, predicting that there will be at least 40 models of Android phones within a year, and that they will be the second place mobile platform by the end of 2012.
Reports surfaced on Thursday that Verizon is poised to add an HTC Android phone to its stable.
"In a few years Android will be the second most popular smart phone running neck-and-neck with Apple," Gartner analyst Van Baker told AFP on Thursday.

(more…)

• UnixBlue: AT&T Will Allow VoIP Calls From Apple's iPhone http://bit.ly/11tNde #
• UnixBlue: Judge sets deadline for amended Google book deal http://bit.ly/QdxGg #
• UnixBlue: Mobile Networks Face a 'Spectrum Crisis,' FCC Chief Says http://bit.ly/zl2mH #
• UnixBlue: YouTube pacts heighten copyright vigilance http://bit.ly/g86l3 #
• UnixBlue: Compuware to buy Gomez Inc. for $295 million cash http://bit.ly/2T3QJy #
• UnixBlue: Microsoft Will Give European Users a Choice of Browsers http://bit.ly/wZuCg #
• UnixBlue: ND woman's 7-foot-long dog could be record holder http://bit.ly/oRxey #
• UnixBlue: 1,725-pound pumpkin takes the prize in Ohio http://bit.ly/K3ycK #
• UnixBlue: Joke of the day http://bit.ly/ZKRWq #
• UnixBlue: BlackBerry Music Store: Too Good to Be True? http://bit.ly/4kPDGt #
• UnixBlue: Hackers expose slew of Hotmail account passwords! http://bit.ly/Tw04U #
• UnixBlue: Verizon Wireless, Google in Android partnership http://bit.ly/12qfdM #
• UnixBlue: FTC: Blogger Freebies May Be Ad Fraud http://bit.ly/lDrD1 #
• UnixBlue: The top 10 singles and albums on iTunes http://bit.ly/10vXEt #
• UnixBlue: Marketing Automation: A Well-Oiled Machine That's Ready to Roll http://bit.ly/XJOPX #
• UnixBlue: Management From Afar: Coaching a Team of Remote Workers http://bit.ly/17M6bH #
• UnixBlue: Atlassian JIRA 4.0 Released: OpenSocial Comes To Enterprise http://bit.ly/2zu1hw #
• UnixBlue: Google’s Experimental Homepage Fades To A Single Word http://bit.ly/Ga9Ji #
• UnixBlue: 85% of Mac owners have Windows too http://bit.ly/ZlFDT #
• UnixBlue: Street in Palestinian refugee camp named after Twitter account http://bit.ly/11X7ad #
• UnixBlue: Computer makers seek to banish boot-up blues http://bit.ly/12IvNx #
• UnixBlue: Microsoft's Ballmer says Web search buys unlikely http://bit.ly/1Zjtm #
• UnixBlue: 3 Americans share 2009 Nobel medicine prize http://bit.ly/QFwSI #
• UnixBlue: Even as layoffs persist, some good jobs go begging http://bit.ly/IDNwt #
• UnixBlue: Vonage unveils mobile app for iPhone, BlackBerry http://bit.ly/QluDh #
• UnixBlue: Red Hat Takes Software Patents To Supreme Court http://bit.ly/1LVIJn #
• UnixBlue: Google Chrome OS Arriving Next Month? http://bit.ly/tpUvH #
• UnixBlue: Telenor ends Russia telecoms dispute http://bit.ly/DfsKy #
• UnixBlue: Bing's Biggest Enemy in Search Wars (Hint: Not Google, Exactly) http://bit.ly/2oAJR6 #
• UnixBlue: Review: Sony's PSPgo may disappoint seasoned gamers http://bit.ly/3nPoC5 #
• UnixBlue: Birddi Is A Spanish Twitter Clone http://bit.ly/ubwXz #
• UnixBlue: Facebook Prototype Measures Gross National Happiness, Confirms That We Hate Mondays http://bit.ly/CGYlX #
• UnixBlue: What is a Content Management System, or CMS? http://bit.ly/IYEaP #

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Verizon Wireless and Google Inc. say they are teaming up to speed development of new mobile devices based on Google’s Android software that will run on Verizon’s cell phone network.

Financial details were not disclosed.

The companies say they expect the deal to produce its first new handsets in the next few weeks. They say the new phones will be available at Verizon Wireless retail and online stores.

• UnixBlue: Companies Still Not Securing Customer Data http://bit.ly/8f8rM #
• UnixBlue: Google Chrome Frame makes IE more or less secure? http://bit.ly/d82rv #
• UnixBlue: Mozilla opposes Google Chrome Frame. No soup for you http://bit.ly/Vm7DK #
• UnixBlue: Ubuntu Karmic Koala Beta now out and climbing http://bit.ly/3HdEHw #
• UnixBlue: Bing Travel Gets You Where You're Going, but No Peanuts http://bit.ly/2KwCL9 #
• UnixBlue: US gun maker arming Wii shooter game http://bit.ly/L1T3i #
• UnixBlue: Taiwan unveils hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers http://bit.ly/4aNyqy #
• UnixBlue: Netbooks Propel Global Semiconductor Sales http://bit.ly/VBlfB #
• UnixBlue: IBM email challenges Google in the 'cloud' http://bit.ly/43I8Ld #
• UnixBlue: Increasingly, states push for e-waste recycling http://bit.ly/1VnlKi #
• UnixBlue: Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (4f1bb991-0e31-438f-886b-85a861ddf020 – 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-40… http://bit.ly/Hdf4F #
• UnixBlue: Lawmakers urge delay in Internet gambling rules http://bit.ly/202Jh #
• UnixBlue: E-readers seen as holiday hit http://bit.ly/1yisuA #
• UnixBlue: Microsoft video gets a little too much attention http://bit.ly/O94NK #
• UnixBlue: No texting at dinner! Parenting in the digital era http://bit.ly/2RHDrw #
• UnixBlue: No texting at dinner! Parenting in the digital era #
• UnixBlue: Scientists find path to 'fountain of youth' http://bit.ly/oXuLO #
• UnixBlue: Nintendo's `Wii Fit Plus' adds pet support http://bit.ly/rLVSu #
• UnixBlue: E-Commerce Service Lets Users Pay in Person http://bit.ly/2wf0j6 #
• UnixBlue: Facebook, Twitter and Social Media Marketing http://bit.ly/2iun5x #
• UnixBlue: Google Revamps DoubleClick in Major Ad Push http://bit.ly/dKRXB #
• UnixBlue: Social Network Ad Spend Surging http://bit.ly/sjnjo #
• UnixBlue: Zuckerberg Moves Up The Forbes 400 List. Net Worth Now $2 Billion http://bit.ly/2gqWld #
• UnixBlue: Nokia Booklet 3G Will Be a Best Buy Exclusive in the U.S. http://bit.ly/CKaD4 #
• UnixBlue : : The meaning of Gadget #
• News Flash : : The Richest People In America #
• This is the second twitt #
• The World is Blue #

Shipments of mobile phones based on Google’s Android software platform will grow 900%, but off a low base, according to research from Strategy Analytics, a US market researcher.

Apple’s iPhone OS will be the next fastest-growing smartphone operating system in 2009, with a 79% growth, it said.

(more…)