This post's title is from Ace Ventura Pet Detective 2, it echos my thoughts of late. No I don't have fear of bats. It's just that lately I haven't been getting enough Z's. One of our neighbors in the lowcost MDU behind our townhouse decided to get a rooster [or rosteers] a few weeks back [probably for Sabong aka cock fighting]. I'm a pretty lite sleeper and those devil birds are too friggin' noisy. There should be laws against disturbing the peace with chickens. Birds have a bad rep already cause of Avian influenza [aka Birdflu] and these bastards keeping me up [and/or waking me up] isn't helping their rep with me either.
So which is it? Nokia (NOK) and Microsoft (MSFT) announced a partnership today. Both lumbering companies have been in some trouble with their smartphone divisions. Both have been loosing market share to Apple, Android and Blackberry in recent years. WindowsMobile (previously PocketPC and currently WindowsPhone) once the dominant mobile OS, yes folks before the iPhone came into power Microsoft slowly but surely killed of it’s main competitor palm OS, which was acquired by hp last year and is now barely a sliver of a shadow of it’s former former former self. Just this week hp/palm unveiled 2 new smartphones the palm Pre 3 and Veer, as well as their entry into the tablet space with the TouchPad. hp being one of the top computer manufacturers at the moment has the resources to use and spread webOS like a creamy peanut butter across all markets they are in. By being one of MSFT’s biggest customers now suddenly not using Windows7 (still MSFT’s tablet OS of choice) and churning out comp...
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