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Two years ago Nokia sold 30% of its smartphones in Western Europe. Today it sells 15% in that market. Its unit shipments went from 5 million to about half that and its market share went from 55% to 11%. Its rank in the market went from first to fifth.

The fall is exceptional and dramatic. The two charts below show smartphone market shares. (more)

Samsung has introduced another smart phone to their range of exquisite phones. Ever since Samsung’s Galaxy range has wooed many users, a new bench mark has been set by Samsung for all smart phones throughout the world. Samsung Focus Flash is the latest addition and definitely worth a look for all smart phone buyers. (more)

The Chinese government Tuesday criticized Google for being “totally wrong” by stopping censoring its Chinese-language search results, while reaffirming that the foreign investment environment will not be affected in China, a ready made reaction after two months of tension sparked by the search engine’s pullout threat.

Surveys showed that the majority of China’s Web users is not much affected by Google’s decision to reroute searches to its Hong Kong-based site. (more)

Washington – Google’s decision to withdraw its main Chinese website from the mainland and relocate to Hong Kong was a business decision that did not involve the US government, the US State Department said Tuesday.

“This was a business decision by Google,  as to the issue of Internet freedom and the flow of information around the world,” spokesman PJ Crowley said. (more)

The domain facilitates the users of the internet to interact with different types of the websites. .com, .net, .org are the website domains name. It is the rule that the name of the server and the ip addresses could be interchangeable. The cheapest domain name just $ 10 on yearly basis, so it means that the middle class person can easily have the cheapest one. There is the procedure of registering the domain and also one can buy at the high rate, now the choices are at the part of the user that whether to go for the cheapest one or for the expensive one. (more)

The most obvious common ‘personality’ characteristics of hackers are high intelligence, consuming curiosity, and facility with intellectual abstractions. Also, most hackers are ‘neophiles’, stimulated by and appreciative of novelty (especially intellectual novelty). Most are also relatively individualistic and anti-conformist.

Although high general intelligence is common among hackers, it is not the sine qua non one might expect. Another trait is probably even more important: the ability to mentally absorb, retain, and reference large amounts of ‘meaningless’ detail, trusting to later experience to give it context and meaning. (more)

You may ask why we need to help hacker culture grow, they do bad thing, destroy a system, and more, and more…

If you think like above, you know nothing about hacker, here’s the text of a letter RMS wrote to the Wall Street Journal (some years ago) to complain about their policy of using “hacker” only in a pejorative sense. We hear that most major newspapers have the same policy. (more)