Orbino launches Padova iPad cases, offers exotic
skins

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Orbino has launched a new hand-stitched leather iPad case, Padova. The case is a play-through design...

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News Corp. rumored selling MySpace for $700
million [U]

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 16 March 2010 03:45:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

(Update: statement received) News Corp. is frantically trying to sell MySpace, a short but potential...

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News Corp. rumored selling MySpace for $700
million

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News Corp. is frantically trying to sell MySpace, a short but potentially major rumor maintained thi...

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Fake Steve Jobs getting TV series pilot

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Fake Steve Jobs writer Dan Lyons might be getting his own TV series pilot, according to Deadline. EP...

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IE9 preview finally gives Microsoft HTML5 support

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Microsoft's second day of MIX10 has seen the launch of the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, its...

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Day 74 Sales: Apple iPhone vs. Google Nexus One
vs. Motorola Droid

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Flurry — a mobile app analytics company — has published a comparison showing estimated sales over the first 74 days they were on sale:

Inspecting the graph, it’s immediately clear that Nexus One sales continue to pale in comparison to iPhone 1G and Motorola Droid, with each besting Nexus One sales by roughly 8 times over the same time period.

At the same time, an interesting side-story is that the Motorola Droid edged out iPhone 1G over the first 74 days, coming in at just over one million sold through, by our calculations. This was surprising enough that we re-ran our estimates several times and still came up with the same results.

I don’t think Google ever intended the Nexus One to be a high-selling device; it’s pretty clear from Apple’s experiments with iPhone pricing that subsidized pricing drives sales. But still: if they’ve only sold 135K to date, that means they’ve sold fewer over 74 days than Apple has sold iPad pre-orders over the weekend.

As for the surprise of the Droid outselling the original iPhone over their first 74 days, keep in mind that the iPhone was effectively unavailable for 21 of its first 74 days on sale. Still, though, it goes to show how important Verizon is.

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iPod shuffle owner files lawsuit over alleged
sweat damage

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An iPod shuffle owner has filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple, after his device allegedly mal...

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Estimated iPad Pre-Orders Over the Weekend:
150,000

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Daniel Tello, a.k.a. “Deagol”, built a model to estimate iPad pre-orders based on order numbers submitted by volunteers throughout the weekend. It’s inexact, of course, but my money says these numbers are solid. And it’s worth emphasizing that these numbers do not include iPads that have been reserved for pickup at a retail Apple Store.

Keep in mind too, that this is for a machine that almost no one has seen, let alone used, in person.

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WSJ: Ten Percent of Microsoft Employees Use an
iPhone

Nick Wingfield, reporting for the WSJ:

Nearly 10,000 iPhone users were accessing the Microsoft employee email system last year, say two people who heard the estimates from senior Microsoft executives. That figure equals about 10% of the company’s global work force.

Employees at Apple, in contrast, appear to be more devoted to the company’s own mobile phone. Several people who work at the company or deal regularly with employees there say they can’t recall seeing Apple workers with mobile phones other than the iPhone in recent memory. […]

One Microsoft worker said he knows several colleagues who try to disguise their iPhones with cases that make them look more like generic handsets. “Maybe once a year I’m in a meeting with Steve Ballmer,” said this employee. “It doesn’t matter who’s calling, I’m not answering my phone.”

It’s a schadenfreude-alicious nugget of information, sure. But it’s a telling indication of just how strong the iPhone is versus Windows Mobile. (Via Eric Slivka.)

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Nexus One gets AT&T, Canadian support

Google today officially updated the Nexus One to support the 850MHz 3G band. The new version pu...

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