Smartphone Sales Increase 71 Percent

Sales of smartphones to U.S. customers hit 9 million units from January through July 2008 compared to the same time period last year, representing an 84 percent increase.Overall handset sales and revenues dipped in the U.S., but smartphone revenue increased 71 percent hitting almost $4.7 billion. With the launch of Apple's iPhone in July, Apple took the second spot in smartphone sales, behind RIM.

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Textual Profiling?

You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting—I’m not a licensed graphologist, if there is such a thing, but it’s a cool party trick I do—but characterizing and profiling someone by their text messages? British scientists say sure, and linguistic study of text messages could help in murder cases.

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New CNN Show Based on Twitter

We all know that Twitter is a huge hit with so-called "geeks," but it just may get a big push into mainstream society, thanks to CNN. The news broadcaster has already been incorporating "tweets" into reports, and now anchor Rich Sanchez, a faithful Twitter user, has left a tweet indicating that they would be debuting a new Twitter show today called "Rick Sanchez Direct".

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Cutts Denies Pressuring Twitter Nofollow

Matt Cutts says his pinging of Twitter cofounder Evan Williams about nofollowing Twitter bio links was more of a heads-up than an imperative straight from the Googleplex.

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Electronic Newspaper Reader Debuts

Plastic Logic has launched a new electronic newspaper reader similar to Amazon's Kindle, but it's about the size of a regular piece of copy paper. Like the Kindle, this reader utilizes E-Ink's black and white display technology.

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