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In memoriam: Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie created C and co-created Unix. One of the unsung heroes of the modern world. He died yesterday.
His “The C Programming Language” was my bible during a formative period of my life.
In his memory I re-link a post I wrote a little over …
In memoriam: Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie created C and co-created Unix. One of the unsung heroes of the modern world. He died yesterday.
His “The C Programming Language” was my bible during a formative period of my life.
In his memory I re-link a post I wrote a little over …
Can the BlackBerry recover?
The August comScore mobile survey (MobiLens) is out. It measures the penetration or consumption of various mobile products and services in the US over a three month period.
I track the change in this data over time. Here are some highlights:
In August …
RIM and the lamentation of the analyst
RIM shipped 10.6 million Blackberries and 200,000 PlayBooks in the last quarter. Management noted that their sell-through was significantly higher for Blackberry (13.7 million) but seems to be very weak for PlayBook as the prior quarter saw 500k units …
Mobile Impossible
In yesterday’s post about the “biggest mobile loser” I covered the exodus of users from non-smart devices in the US and EU5. I also said that what happens in those regions tends to happen in other regions with a time shift. In some regions it hap…
Biggest mobile loser? The non-smart phone
Yesterday comScore published survey results for EU5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK) on smartphone use and installed base. The headline is very similar to what would be written about the US: Android had phenomenal growth over the last twelve months….