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Samsung surged four percent in a year to overtake Nokia as top mobile phone seller while the Finnish company drops over five percent and Apple doubles its market share. RIM languishes behind ZTE, LG and Huawei and HTC globally slumped to under two percent
Google introduces the knowledge graph.
The Knowledge Graph is a huge collection of the people, places and things in the world and how they’re connected to one another. With this technology, Google can get you the best possible answers and help jump start your discovery.
Evernote releases a completely revamped Android app.
Photo editing company Aviary has released a development kit for Windows Phone for other apps to use as their image editor of choice. As Windows Phone is still in its early period, Aviary hopes to become the leading partner for photo apps on the platform. The free SDK allows all sorts of applications to add photo editing components without having to build it themselves. As GeekWire noted, third party Twitter app Rowi is among the first to adopt Aviary. It also offers SDK for iOS and Android. Aviary recently replaced Piknik as the image editor for Flickr users.
Yahoo! circa 2006 felt amazing. We had the pieces and people to demolish Facebook. Fumbling every single thing since takes special talent.
— Les Orchard (@lmorchard) May 15, 2012
Tuesday had brought major milestones to Indosat, Indonesia’s second largest mobile telco by customer base. Following the appointment of veteran telco executive Erik Meijer as the commercial director or chief commercial officer, the company launched its iPhone 4S bundling program yesterday and announced that it now has 52 million customers within its networks. This amounts to a 14 percent rise over the same period last year. According to Tempo Interaktif, this means the company has 21.7 percent of the cellular market in Indonesia. With Rp4 trillion in cellular revenue, Rp672 billion came from data services, a 13.7 percent year on year increase. On the other hand, profits were down 96 percent to Rp 16.7 billion compared to the same quarter last year as it looks to sell its towers away.
By the time we were looking at Flickr, Yahoo was getting the shit kicked out of it by Google. The race was on to find other areas of search where we could build a commanding lead.
That is the reason we bought Flickr—not the community. We didn’t give a shit about that. The theory behind buying Flickr was not to increase social connections, it was to monetize the image index. It was totally not about social communities or social networking. It was certainly nothing to do with the users.
Gizmodo’s Mat Honan takes a detailed and powerful look at how Flickr went from a feature of another project to an internet powerhouse before succumbing to become a curiosity caught up in corporate quagmire.
In 2005, Flickr had far and away the best social connection and discovery tools on the Internet. Remember, back then Facebook was still very much a fledgling service, one that didn’t even let you upload pictures other than the one in your profile. Yahoo, meanwhile, had existing internal social products, like Address Book and Messenger. Social was clearly the future. What Yahoo wanted, however, wasn’t the future. It was to re-fight an old battle from the past. It was to beat Google.
- Thinner, lighter, faster, sharper, SSD-powered, retina display, redesigned MacBook Pro? Check.
- More iCloud apps? Check
- Mountain Lion release? Check.
- iPhone in October? Check.
- Retina Display iMacs? Oh.
- New Apple television? Hmmm… well, almost all the rumors.
