Samsung, Apple Walk Away With 90 Percent Of Smartphone Profits In Q1 2012, Says ABI Research | Wow: Working Apple 1 motherboard sells for $374K in auction | WordPress 3.4 Offers No Hassle Theme Testing | Post Pedophile Scandal, Habbo Hotel Is Opening For Business Again | LA Companies: VentureBeat & DEMO are heading south for Silicon Beach Fest

Samsung, Apple Walk Away With 90 Percent Of Smartphone Profits In Q1 2012, Says ABI Research

Posted by TechCrunch
Despite the rapid growth of the smartphone market (41 percent YOY, to be exact), Samsung and Apple are the only smartphone makers really enjoying this growth. Combined, they took home 55 percent of global smartphone shipments in the first quarter of 2012. More importantly, they’re walking away with 90 percent of the market’s profits.
Surprisingly, however, Samsung and Sony were the only OEMs to see any sequential growth in shipments. Even more surprising, RIM (of all companies) is set to surpass Nokia, despite the fact that both companies saw a decrease in shipments, 20 percent and 40 percent respectively.
According to senior ABI analyst Michael Morgan, ?at this point in the year[...]
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Wow: Working Apple 1 motherboard sells for $374K in auction

Posted by VentureBeat
Even though it would be worth next-to-nothing without its historical roots, an original Apple 1 motherboard sold for an eye-popping $374,500 today at a Sotheby’s auction.
Sotheby’s believes the motherboard is one of a handful that still are in working condition. “It is thought that fewer than 50 Apple 1 Computers survive, with only 6 known to be in working condition,” Sotheby’s notes.
The motherboard, which was put together by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, in many ways represents the genesis of Apple. The motherboard includes a MOS Technologies 6502 microprocessor and 8 kilobytes of RAM. About 200 Apple 1 computers were ever produced, and Apple did not become a[...]
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WordPress 3.4 Offers No Hassle Theme Testing

Posted by PCWorld
Although taking a few months longer than expected, Automattic and the volunteer developers have finally released version 3.4 of the widely used WordPress blogging platform.
Those who upgrade to the new edition will enjoy such features as the ability to test themes before applying them to the entire blog site and the ability to add HTML code to their caption photos.
WordPress is the most widely used blogging platform, deployed for almost half the world's blogs, according to a recent estimate by Web services firm Pingdom. The developers have planned to release new versions of the open source software every three or four months. Version 3.4, however, is the first major release since last Decemb[...]
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Post Pedophile Scandal, Habbo Hotel Is Opening For Business Again

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Sulake, the developers behind the children’s virtual world Habbo Hotel, is preparing to reopen its chatrooms once again after a week in which it was exposed for hosting inappropriate sexual content on the site, prompting the company to close down all conversations — “mute” them in Habbo terminology — while it sorted out the mess.
The news of what Habbo is calling “The Great Unmute” will also be used as a chance to get user feedback on the state of the site and how it should develop, according to a�blog post�published today by Sulake’s CEO, Paul LaFontaine. He also took the opportunity to claim that some journalists have been using the opportuni[...]
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LA Companies: VentureBeat & DEMO are heading south for Silicon Beach Fest

Posted by VentureBeat
As the DEMO world tour rolls on, we?re stopping in Los Angeles on June 22nd.
We?ll be in town judging at�Angel Pitch Day�(organized by Schmoozd), as well as StartEngine’s Accelerator Demo Day. Both events are part of the Silicon Beach Fest.
We?ll be partnering up with Greycroft founding partner Dana Settle�and David Travers, partner at Rustic Canyon�to see the best new companies the city has to offer.
So if you?re interested in meeting with Dana, David, and myself (I?m with VentureBeat and DEMO), please fill out this form and we?ll be in touch with more details.
We?re traveling the globe to meet with as many entrepreneurs as possible, all in preparation for the upcoming DEMO conference[...]
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