Google vs Apple, iPhone War

Apple didn't reinvent the phone. But it came close with the iPhone, creating an entirely new breed of mobile device—and promptly selling 6 million of them. In other words, the first iPhone wasn't the Sputnik of cellphones, but it may have been the Apollo 11.

A year later, as Apple launches its second-generation iPhone, the competition must realize that time is running out. If someone doesn't build a comparable touchscreen phone—right now—then the iPhone could become more than a historic success story. It will be unassailable, and the concept of an iPhone killer will become as mythical and useless as that other holy grail of consumer electronics: the iPod killer.

While companies like Samsung, LG and Motorola are used to fighting it out over handset design and built-in features, dutifully serving a range of niche customers while stumbling toward the next RAZR, beating the iPhone will mean excelling in an arena where phone makers have generally failed: software.

It's not that a touchscreen phone's hardware is irrelevant. The screen has to be tough enough to survive a fall, the processor fast enough to keep the phone from feeling too much like an underpowered computer, and the hard buttons smart enough to offset the inevitable interface hiccups. But more than any other kind of phone, a touchphone is a bundle of potential energy, a platform for software that defines not only the features, but the look and feel of the device. As iPhone competitors like the Samsung Instinct and LG Vu enter the market, it's been clear that the interface is what sets one model apart from another—turned off, every touchphone is a shiny little monolith. So even on a cosmetic level, the touchphone war will be fought with code.

Compared to Windows Mobile or the various proprietary operating systems built by other phone makers, the iPhone's OS and graphical user interface is clean, efficient and surprisingly free of embarrassment. Anyone who's tried to browse the Internet with directional buttons, or do anything at all with a RAZR, knows what I'm talking about. There's some room for improvement, of course. The lack of a landscape view for every iPhone application—and particularly ones where you're required to type—is mysterious, while video support in Safari is practically non-existent.

But no phone maker today is poised to take advantage of the software chinks—however small—in the iPhone's armor. Companies like BlackBerry may have excelled at direct, no-frills interfaces, but with the flood of new iPhone applications due to arrive July 11, it will take a true software giant to mount any sort of defense.

A giant like Google.

The company, which is spearheading the release of the open-source mobile phone operating system Android, also cut its teeth on simple, intuitive interfaces. It quietly releases free, browser-based applications that rival the Microsoft Office empire, and has already proven its mobile chops with the iPhone's Maps functionality.

While Apple attempts to encourage creative iPhone applications ideas with venture capital, the $10 million prize money that Google is sinking into its Android Developers Challenge may seem more tempting and less predatory to programmers. The first prize-winning Android applications will be released later this year—and early startups, like a GPS tracking

program or even open-source hardware, are promising.

For Google, the emphasis is on open architecture and a wealth of smart programs for all kinds of phones. But as the iPhone has demonstrated, touchphones are the true battleground for software supremacy. If any of the first Android handsets released in the second half of this year is, say, touch-sensitive, with a screen somewhere between 3 and 4 in., the gauntlet will be thrown.

There's another possible endgame, though. "Do I believe that all applications are equal, and that more is always better," asks Muzib Khan, vice president of product management and engineering for Samsung Telecomm. "I don't think so." Samsung, it should be noted, is part of the Open Handset Alliance, but Khan points out that not every customer has the time—or desire—to filter through a constant flood of relatively untested applications. And with deep-pocketed providers like Sprint already investing billions in services like mobile TV, the company that can best implement a proven service, instead of enabling a million potentially buggy ones, could hold its own in the touchphone market. That's one reason why Samsung, for one, isn't planning on switching all of its new models to the Android platform. There's a place, you could argue, for proprietary, device-specific operating systems and services.

Still, given the track record that phone makers and providers have—with laughable browsers, stuttering television feeds and arcane e-mail programs—it's hard to imagine the old guard making an impact in the coming war between Apple and Android. Companies like Samsung will continue to deliver millions of devices that make excellent phone calls. But for something that does everything else, the last, best hope for a true iPhone-killer is Google.

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Stock Option Software

Nowadays we can find many option traders in the world are using stock option software to help them making decision. The most objectives of trading software are to help trader in order to minimize loss and maximize profit easily, without any complicated analysis. But, even though stock option software is made to help trader, it doesn’t mean that the trader doesn’t have to find more information about financial condition concerning to the option that they trade.

Using the stock option software can make your analysis become easier, virtually you will get the software from the broker where you invest your fund, and there are many variety of the software depend on the broker. Nevertheless, sometimes two or even more have same software, which is recommended to their investors. It is much better for you to use two kind of software when you analyze the market, because different software also has different quality, speed and feature, but they have same chart and pricing, so you can choose which one is suitable for you.

There are many considerations that you can think, first, make sure that the stock option software that you are planning to use has a good speed access including order, price movement and trading execution while you are trading. It is important so that when you are ready to trade, you can make the right trading decision and keep the risk low.

Next, you can find out about the software in the internet forum. Customarily, if someone who is a trader like you, recommend of something, he should have tried it before and he enjoyed it. You do not have to use directly, you can try it by yourself first and then conclude it. Beside that, you must make sure that you have a good internet access to support the software well when you are trading.

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How to hypnotize people instanly without knowing

Many techniques are used in hypnosis. One of those techniques is hypnotize people while they do not know that you are doing it instantly. This technique can be done in many kind of people even you do not know who they are. Some people are interested to learn about this technique and its not easy to be capable in it. There are many term of condition that you must submissive. First, you have a commitment of goal that you want to achieve. Is it for goodness or nasty objective? I do not mind to any reason, I appreciate your capability if you do not use it for harm other people.

The second term of condition is you must consistence in practicing so that no sweat that has fallen is useless in the end. I mean you must improve your skill by practicing routinely.

Third, you must have an instructor to guide you to scrutinize hypnotizing technique. Nowadays you can find the online instructor in the internet. You can learn step by step easily and instantly.

Customarily hypnosis is conducted by asking the object, touching their skin or by using certain power words and facial expression. But in hypnotizing people without they knowing, we convert the suggestion into a message by visual technique which is



sent to the object’s mind. We also talk to the object but we do not ask her to follow the direction concern to hypnosis.

To have this kind of capability we cannot gain control just by one article or even ten article. But, I have told you the things that you have to do and in the end you must find where to find the source of the knowledge. I call hypnosis as knowledge because we need to learn and practice it to become a master. You can find the instructor in Google or Yahoo search engine with hypnosis instructor as the keyword.

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Suggestion how to buy a computer

DO you have a plan to buy computer?
If yes you do, you should consider these suggestions

Most of the people buy a computer to navigate on the Internet. They also use it to send a receive emails, messages, chatting and browsing.

Occasionally the computer is being used for working on text documents or other types of documents. Today even the worst computer may do this

with no problems. And this at very low costs. If this is your case too, you need a computer with no special features. It will surely help you

with everything you need.

But maybe your requests are higher than those benefits. Maybe you need to edit images. Or access a data base, perform table calculus. Many of

us will often play computer games. If you want to be able to play the latest games you should consider a last generation computer. Even if the

technology advances in a great rhythm, buying a top computer will save you money in the future. This is because it will face the software

requirements of the future with no problems. The most active segments on the


computer market is the gaming PC segment and computers designed

specifically or games.

The gamers spend hundreds of dollars on the latest graphics boards and processors. From Dual Core to Quad Core, performances keep increasing.

Playing computer games is more than a hobby or a passion for the people who have too much money. It's a billions of dollars industry.

In the end, there is one simple advice on how to buy a computer. The sellers will try to sell you components that you will never need as a

simple user. As a person who doesn't play that much on the computer but just uses it for its functionality, the cheapest computer will do

everything you need at the speed you need. So just buy the computer that satisfies your minimal requirements. And don't let yourself fooled in

buying components or performances you don't need.

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