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Removable 1400 mAH battery

Charges at 480mA from USB, at 980mA from supplied charger

Talk time

Up to 10 hours on 2G
Up to 7 hours on 3G

Standby time

Up to 290 hours on 2G Up to 250 hours on 3G

Internet use

Up to 5 hours on 3G
Up to 6.5 hours on Wi-Fi

Video playback

Up to 7 hours

Audio playback

Up to 20 hours

Processor

Qualcomm QSD 8250 1 GHz

Operating system

Android Mobile Technology Platform 2.1 (Eclair)

Capacity

512MB Flash

512MB RAM

4GB Micro SD Card (Expandable to 32 GB)

Location

Assisted global positioning system (AGPS) receiver

Cell tower and Wi-Fi positioning

Digital compass

Accelerometer

Size and weight

Height

119mm

Width

59.8mm

Depth

11.5mm

Weight

130 grams w/battery
100g w/o battery

Display

3.7-inch (diagonal) widescreen WVGA AMOLED touchscreen

800 x 480 pixels

100,000:1 typical contrast ratio

1ms typical response rate

Camera & Flash

5 megapixels

Autofocus from 6cm to infinity

2X digital zoom

LED flash

User can include location of photos from phone’s AGPS receiver

Video captured at 720×480 pixels at 20 frames per second or higher, depending on lighting conditions

Cellular & Wireless

UMTS Band 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900)

HSDPA 7.2Mbps

HSUPA 2Mbps

GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n)

Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

A2DP stereo Bluetooth

Additional features

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Another year has come and gone, and Google is taking a moment to look back at the happenings of 2009—the people, events and memories that made this year unique. Each year, they examine the billions of queries that people around the world have typed into Google search to discover the zeitgeist—the spirit of the times.

The Zeitgeist is a fun tool to look at the most popular terms of the given year. However, Google trends should always be on the radar of bloggers and merchants for ways to use what is hot to drive traffic to the top funnel of your process. Google Trends measures the fastest growing search terms on the web. Businesses should continue to study the top search trends on Google in order to take advantage of popular topics to drive traffic to their sites.

So of course I am mister morbid insanity, so I will reprint the Dead Celebrities top 10 list for you…

Rest In Peace

1. michael jackson
2. billy mays
3. steve mcnair
4. dj am
5. david carradine
6. farrah fawcett
7. patrick swayze
8. marilyn chambers
9. walter cronkite
10. les paul

But go over to the Zeitgeist home page and see some of the other fun stuff you can get there. You can see the top search terms for your city, or in the news, or in sports. It really is some interesting stuff.

Scot Wingo blows the roof off! This interview is so full of sizzle and STEAK. Man, I have not heard this much great information and insight anywhere, honestly. This is such a good "exclusive" interview.

Hey, Scot even brought some brand new stats on Amazon CGM, eBay Antique Sellers, Google vs. Bing…Damn I could go on, but why? Just look at the notes and PRESS PLAY!

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Scot Wingo – CEO ChannelAdvisor.com and eBayStrategies.com

2:12 – Amazon vs. eBay Growth
3:05 – What is EGM?
4:10 – Amazon partitions are growing at up to 54%
5:50 – 5 Points – Value, Ease, Merchandising, Trust, Selection
7:12 – 600 Million Shoes … wow
8:03 – Amazon has moved marketing $$$ to free shipping
8:54 – Can eBay subsidize its free shipping model?
10:22 – Is ChannelAdvisor keeping up with eBay changes?
14:24 – How does WalMart.com & Sears.com factor into the eCommerce mix
15:29 – Marketplace Wars
16:34 – Is the Kindle a factor for Amazon’s traffic success?
17:26 – Google Commerce Search Changes
18:15 – Google Search 62% – Bing Seach 35%
19:20 – eCommerce Search is up to 40% of all search
20:12 – eBay Best Match Search
21:14 – eBay Top Rated Seller Program
24:21 – Should eBay Go Retail? (http://ow.ly/ECvi)
26:01 – Some EXCLUSIVE eBay Numbers Data From Wingo!
28:00 – Are Antiques and Collectables suffering on eBay?
29:40 – Will eBay changes squeeze out the SMB’s on eBay?
30:30 – eBay vs. Paypal
33:00 – 45% of Paypal is actually eBay (the Paypal Monopoly)
34:15 – Paypal is holding up to 15% of sellers GMV
36:17 – Social Media – is it a viable channel for selling?
37:01 – eCommerce on Facebook
39:27 – Mobile commerce (red lazer, shopsavvy, deocrab)
42:00 – ChannelAdvisor Catalyst May 3-5 (www.ChannelAdvisor.com/Catalyst)

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After much talk and speculation the code launch for developers is here. Now watch the fun as the development begins!

Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web. Here you can review the project’s design docs, obtain the source code, and contribute. To learn more about the project goals,

First, it’s all about the web. All apps are web apps. The entire experience takes place within the browser and there are no conventional desktop applications. This means users do not have to deal with installing, managing and updating programs.

Second, because all apps live within the browser, there are significant benefits to security. Unlike traditional operating systems, Chrome OS doesn’t trust the applications you run. Each app is contained within a security sandbox making it harder for malware and viruses to infect your computer.

Furthermore, Chrome OS barely trusts itself. Every time you restart your computer the operating system verifies the integrity of its code. If your system has been compromised, it is designed to fix itself with a reboot. While no computer can be made completely secure, we’re going to make life much harder (and less profitable) for the bad guys. If you dig security, read the Chrome OS Security Overview or watch the video.

Most of all, Google OS is obsessed with speed and taking out every unnecessary process, optimizing many operations and running everything possible in parallel. This means you can go from turning on the computer to surfing the web in a few seconds. This obsession with speed goes all the way down to the metal, specifying reference hardware components to create the fastest experience for Google Chrome OS.

Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here’s How

Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, is prepared to remove his company’s content from Google’ search index “within months” as the pay versus free content debate reaches crisis point. The tension is RISING and Mr. Murdoch is amping up. This is a heavyweight championship battle royal.

When asked how long it would be before Mr Murdoch took the step to block Google, which every media company relies upon to send them high levels of web traffic, Murdoch said it would be soon – “months and quarters – not weeks”.

Let’s refresh our memories again….REWIND A full decade after Napster taught the world to share, the music industry’s resistance to new business models continues to obstruct what could preserve it. Napster, created by a college kid to share music with other kids in his dorm, is long gone, and yet file sharing continues to shape the musical landscape.

The RIAA fight with Napster ended with the RIAA spending MILLIONS trying to block sharing using lawsuits against parents of teens (dumb ass move), investing in watermarking techniques (that $#&% didn’t work) and disbanding Napster (good move for Kazaa, Bearshare, Blubster and on and on). Just like a Greek Hydra, you cut off 1 head and 3 more grow out.

Is Mr. Murdoch STUPID? That is my question today? Probably not, he is just OLD! LMAO

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Over on the Chromium Google Blog Google announced a project called SPDY!

Today we’d like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced "SPeeDY", an early-stage research project that is part of our effort to make the web faster. SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web. It is designed specifically for minimizing latency through features such as multiplexed streams, request prioritization and HTTP header compression.

We started working on SPDY while exploring ways to optimize the way browsers and servers communicate. Today, web clients and servers speak HTTP. HTTP is an elegantly simple protocol that emerged as a web standard in 1996 after a series of experiments. HTTP has served the web incredibly well. We want to continue building on the web’s tradition of experimentation and optimization, to further support the evolution of websites and browsers. So over the last few months, a few of us here at Google have been experimenting with new ways for web browsers and servers to speak to each other, resulting in a prototype web server and Google Chrome client with SPDY support.

So far we have only tested SPDY in lab conditions. The initial results are very encouraging: when we download the top 25 websites over simulated home network connections, we see a significant improvement in performance – pages loaded up to 55% faster. There is still a lot of work we need to do to evaluate the performance of SPDY in real-world conditions. However, we believe that we have reached the stage where our small team could benefit from the active participation, feedback and assistance of the web community.

Google announces a new feature for sponsored listing links. This indicates that online retailers can now launch all of their products in the Google Merchant Center account and only pay a fee when someone purchases something from their shopping cart. Consumers will begin to see these product listings ads more frequently they move into the peak of the holiday shopping season.

“Everyday we come across many users come to Google.com to research products and find where to buy them,” says Google’s Dan Friedman. “To better serve these users, we have been testing a new feature of AdWords called Product Listing Ads. Product Listing Ads works with an advertiser’s Google Merchant Center account to serve highly targeted ads that include richer product information directly in the ad itself — including product image, price, and merchant name.”

Global search leader Google has recently been engaged in experimenting its new “Product Listing Ads” ad format with several online retailers as a new model to get paid search ads featuring product images in Google.com search results, and yesterday, the company announced that they are beginning to expand their product listings ads beta program to more merchants — just in time for the holiday shopping season.

Product Listing Ads is part of Google’s effort to simplify the advertising process for merchants with large product inventories. Some of the key features of Product Listing Ads include:

• Pay only for results: Product Listing Ads are charged on a cost-per-action (CPA) basis, which means that you only pay when a user clicks on your ad and completes a purchase on your site. Because Product Listing Ads is charged on a CPA basis, it offers a risk-free way for you to reach a larger audience on Google.com.
• List your entire inventory: Product Listing Ads requires no keywords or additional ad text. Whenever a user enters a search query relevant to an item in your Google Merchant Center account, Google will automatically show the most relevant products along with the associated image, price and product name. Product Listing Ads makes it easy for you to promote your entire product inventory on Google.com.

At this time, Product Listing Ads is still a beta feature and is only available to a limited number of retail advertisers. Over time, they will increase the number of users who see Product Listing Ads as well as the number of advertisers able to participate.

A large number of ecommerce sites typically employ some sort of pay per click marketing in their overall advertising plan. With the latest release, online retailers can become more efficient and move beyond the click based pricing model to a cost per action pricing model.

In September 2009, nearly 27 billion hours were spent on the Internet globally by a record online population of 1.2 billion Internet users age 15 and older. Microsoft Sites accounted for 14.5 percent of total minutes spent online in September, making it the most engaging global property, with Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger representing nearly 70 percent of time spent on the property during the month.

Google Sites captured 9.3 percent of total minutes (2.5 billion hours), with YouTube accounting for nearly half of total time spent (1.2 billion hours) at the property. Yahoo! Sites ranked as the third most engaging Web property at 1.7 billion hours, followed by Facebook.com at 1.4 billion hours. Facebook’s share of attention reached 5.1 percent in September, an increase of 2.9 percentage points from the previous year, as its continued growth in popularity precipitated this surge in share.

  Top Global Properties Based on Total Hours
  September 2009 vs. September 2008
  Total Audience Age 15+ at Home/Work Locations*
  Source: comScore World Metrix
  -----------------------------
                                         Total Hours (MM)
                                         ---------------
                                Sep-2008        Sep-2009      % Change
                                --------        --------      --------
  Total Internet : Total
   Audience                       21,746          26,988            24
  ----------------------          ------          ------           ---
  Microsoft Sites                  2,734           3,920            43
  ---------------                  -----           -----           ---
  Google Sites                     1,703           2,512            48
  ------------                     -----           -----           ---
  Yahoo! Sites                     1,975           1,699           -14
  ------------                     -----           -----           ---
  Facebook.com                       474           1,387           193
  ------------                       ---           -----           ---
  Tencent Inc.                       589             893            52
  ------------                       ---             ---           ---
  AOL LLC                            584             513           -12
  -------                            ---             ---           ---
  eBay                               231             239             3
  ----                               ---             ---           ---
  Fox Interactive Media              361             204           -44
  ---------------------              ---             ---           ---
  Baidu.com Inc.                     175             163            -7
  --------------                     ---             ---           ---
  Lycos Sites                         59             107            81
  -----------                        ---             ---           ---

  *Excludes visitation from public computers such as Internet cafes or
  access from mobile phones or PDAs.

  Global Regions Exhibit Different Preferences at Top Online Brands

A regional analysis of the top global properties in time spent by their visitors revealed different preferences across global markets. Microsoft Sites held the largest share of time spent among the top worldwide properties in Europe (16.8 percent), Latin America (35.9 percent) and the Middle East – Africa (33.1 percent). Yahoo! Sites captured the largest share of time in North America with 11.2 percent share, while also attracting a notable 7.9-percent share of time spent in the Asia Pacific region. Google Sites commanded a strong share of time spent in Latin America (19.4 percent), Middle East – Africa (9.7 percent), Europe (9.6 percent) and North America (9.1 percent). China’s Tencent Inc. captured the largest share of visitors’ time in Asia Pacific with a 10.7-percent share, but had negligible engagement in other worldwide regions.

  Share of Time Spent at Top 5 Global Properties Based on Total Minutes
  September 2009
  Total Audience Age 15+ at Home/Work Locations*
  Source: comScore World Metrix
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                     Share (%) of Total Time Spent Online in Region
                     ----------------------------------------------
                                                                    Middle
                              North              Asia      Latin    East -
                 Worldwide   America   Europe   Pacific   America   Africa
                 ---------   -------   ------   -------   -------   ------
  Microsoft Sites  14.5%       8.6%     16.8%     6.4%      35.9%    33.1%
  ---------------  ----        ---      ----      ---       ----     ----
  Google Sites      9.3%       9.1%      9.6%     6.4%      19.4%     9.7%
  ------------      ---        ---       ---      ---       ----      ---
  Yahoo! Sites      6.3%      11.2%      2.0%     7.9%       2.1%     4.9%
  ------------      ---       ----       ---      ---        ---      ---
  Facebook.com      5.1%       6.0%      6.6%     2.4%       5.0%     8.0%
  ------------      ---        ---       ---      ---        ---      ---
  Tencent Inc.      3.3%       0.0%      0.0%    10.7%       0.0%     0.0%
  ------------      ---        ---       ---     ----        ---      ---

  *Excludes visitation from public computers such as Internet cafes or
  access from mobile phones or PDAs.

"The Internet continues to be a dynamic and growing environment around the world with the global online population climbing more than 20 percent in the last year," said Jack Flanagan, executive vice president of comScore Media Metrix. "With the U.S. economy only now emerging from a recession, many multinational corporations have shifted the focus of their growth strategies towards developing markets and the Internet represents an important aspect of those strategies. Understanding the global Internet landscape is the first step towards executing effective marketing strategies in these growing markets."

Fresh from Google this week, they introduce a brand new beta for Google Chrome, which includes a few new treats and cool tricks for users.

For those us who use several computers — for example, a laptop at work and a desktop at home — you need a way to keep your Google Chrome bookmarks in sync across multiple computers. Google’s new beta release allows you to do just that!

You can keep your Google Chrome bookmarks synchronized and up-to-date across the multiple computers you use, without needing to manually recreate your bookmarks every time you use a different computer.

For more on how to use bookmark sync, check out the video…

Once you’ve activated Google Chrome bookmark sync on each of your computers, any changes you make to your bookmarks will appear on all synced computers in just a few seconds. (For those of you who are curious, this bit of magic is made possible by the same XMPP-based servers that powers Google Talk).

As with every release, this new beta comes with many speed improvements. In particular, as web applications we use every day become increasingly dynamic, browsers like Google Chrome need to be able to construct and change elements on web pages as fast as possible. Chrome has improved performance scores by 30% since the current stable release, as measured by Mozilla’s Dromeao DOM Core Tests, and by 400% since the first stable release.

The beta channel provides a sneak preview of things to come with occasional rough edges and before most users see them. To try out bookmark sync and other beta features, download the beta version of Google Chrome.