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[gen Y china] So catering to your whole digital life, Microsoft, Google and Apple have each created separate digital ecosystems for you to inhabit.  Whether its on your desktop, laptop, in your livingroom with your big-screen TV or out-and-about with your mobile device, these three digital giants have some product to keep you linked into their domain.

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[Sitenings Blog RSS] Apple Will Crush Amazon.com's Kindle And Complete Their Electronic ...: If you've been following Apple's patents over the past few years, you would have noticed a trend in tablet-like devices and innovative ways to interact with electronic devices (like gestures on MacBooks and iPhone's user interface.) I believe 2009 will be the year they finally release what they've been building up to. It's not based (solely) on wishful thinking.

[Macworld blogs] Australian Macworld: It’s impossible these days to talk about Web services without mentioning Google, which continued to focus squarely on improving the use of its wide array of online-based products in 2008. The company remained an important member of the Apple ecosystem, continuing to offer its Google Apps, releasing applications for the iPhone and iPod touch, and releasing a new version of SketchUp.

[Windows-Now.com] I Am Boycotting IE Mobile Until Microsoft Gets Its Act Together ...: IMO, I think that the Samsung Omnia is the closest thing the Windows Mobile ecosystem has to an iPhone competitor”¦ the featureset is just spectactual. But the whole UI is custom, and if you do it right, you’ll hardly seen WiMo at all.

[JeffKirvin.net] Pick your ecosystem carefully: I also use google calendar (and gmail address book) via google sync on my blackberry, though most of my calendaring stuff is on Chandler… Someday soon I’ll probably leave dreamhost for SliceHost, because it’d be nice to have sudo access, and slice host’s price is amazing.

[Download Ringtones, Cell Phone Wallpapers, Mobile games, MP3 Music & Videos For Your Cellular Phone - Flycell] Switcher’s Lament for the move to Mac | Download Ringtones, Cell ...: I look forward to interesting time learning the new platform, and I thought, my wife, a heavy e-mail and Internet users, but not someone who enjoys tinkering, would appreciate fit and finish of products in the Apple ecosystem.

[Technology Blog] Switcher’s lament: The case against Mac | Technology Blog: I still wish to accord myself added time to get adequate with the Mac, but I don’t apperceive how abundant best I’ll be able to angle apps that don’t plan (like Aventail or HP’s printer drivers) or an e-mail artefact that makes me beneath advantageous than Outlook. If I was starting from blemish and affairs my aboriginal computer, or if neither I nor my wife formed for companies with accepted non-Mac-friendly e-mail systems, I ability be singing a altered song.

[Blogging for fun an profit] Blogging for fun an profit: The Zune 30GB Mass Suicide at the End ...: Microsoft has long been trying to build an ecosystem around the Zune device, software and music store similar to that offered by Apple with iTunes. Also in the last few weeks have been rumors about the impending launch of a new model that will include a Zune phone.

[E-Commerce Times] E-Commerce News: iPod: Apple's Staunch Defense of the iPod Ecosystem: Apple's music sales platform has three legs: the iPod, the iTunes management software, and the iTunes online store. However, that's not the only way to get music on your iPod -- competitors sell music through different channels, and some products even let the user install different software.

[Apple a Day] Apple a Day: How iPod Touch will help Apple win new platform war ...: Apple can charge whatever it needs to for the mobile Mac, for the connectivity, and for a subscription to MobileMe. And it can collect for purchases of software, books, audio, video, whatever, which can then reside on MobileMe, always available to the MacTROU user.

[Red Bend Blog] Red Bend Blog: Reflections on 2008; Anticipation of “the Day After”: For 2009, both consumers and mobile companies will be careful with their money. But when consumers are ready to make that purchase, they’ll find more compelling options than ever before, specifically increasingly affordable smartphones and new kinds of innovative wireless devices to surf the Internet or read an electronic book.

[Comments for Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger] Scobleizer ”” Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Ballmer’s big moment «: At the IFA show (Europe’s Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin) last year I was at the Panasonic press conference where they showed off Google’s YouTube running on one of their 50-inch screens. That is not a good trend for Microsoft who hopes to be able to bring its services into the living room.

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[Bits] After a Dreary 2008, Venture Capitalists Are Cautious - Bits Blog ...: Only six venture-backed companies went public last year, the fewest since 1977 and down from 86 in 2007, according to data released Monday by the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters. Venture capitalists sold 260 companies, down from 360 in 2007.

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