Filed under: Retail , Apple Financial , iPad The early adopters are out in force today. Based on analysis from Fortune ’s Apple 2.0 blog & the investors of the AAPL board on Investor Village , it seems that as many as 50,000 iPads were pre-ordered in its first two hours of availability this morning.
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Possibly as many as 50,000 iPads pre-ordered in first two hours
How do we know we’re years away from a final resolution to the Nokia / Apple patent lawsuit? It’s been six months since Nokia first filed its complaint , and the two parties are just now starting to argue about which specific substantive claims they’re eventually going to argue about. Let’s do a quick refresh: at the heart of the lawsuit is a conflict over Nokia’s wireless patents , some of which are almost certainly essential to how cell data and WiFi operate.
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Nokia asks court to dismiss part of Apple patent lawsuit
Filed under: iPad If you’re living in Canada or Mexico — but close enough to the border to make a trip to a US Apple Store — Clean My Screen has posted instructions for reserving an iPad outside of the US . There are 23 steps in the guide, but it doesn’t look terribly complicated. It involves the creation of a new account with a US address and no payment method, but with a real email address
Sony Japan’s just outed three newly styled S Series Walkmans for the Disney fanatic. That’s right, Mickey & Minnie Mouse can now be found gracing the back of your PMP — if that’s what you’re into, of course.
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Sony Japan busts out Mickey Mouse-ified S Series Walkmans
Back in January 2009, as Vodafone was preparing to close a ?20 million ($30 million) deal to buy Swedish mapmaker Wayfinder, it was seen as a bold move from a carrier intent on entering the apparently lucrative market for location based services. Fast forward to the present day — past the bit where free Google Maps Navigation destroyed TomTom and Garmin share prices , and past the introduction of free turn-by-turn navigation to Nokia’s Ovi Maps — and you’ll find Wayfinder gently sobbing into a handkerchief as it permanently closes up its doors. Vodafone’s Anna Cloke gives us the reason for it with devastating concision: “We could not charge for something that others gave away for free.” So there we have it, the paid navigation services deathwatch has its first fatality, and it’s the unfortunate nature of the beast that plenty of others will be following suit, unable to resist the destructive effects of the free and ubiquitous services now on offer
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Vodafone’s Wayfinder is first victim of free smartphone navigation services
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Ask Engadget: Best (useful) WiFi network detector?
Mobile manufacturer and platform market share stats for the US are in for the month of January thanks to comScore, and as usual, they tell a fascinating (and somewhat unpredictable) story of what’s actually going on at the cash registers. Motorola — which has long since fallen off its high horse on the global stage — still maintains a commanding presence in the American market by representing some 22.9 percent of all subscribers, though that’s down 1.2 percent from October 2009; that’s particularly interesting in light of the Droid’s success, and a possible sign that smartphones still aren’t on the cusp of dominating the phone market overall. Samsung recently touted the fact that it had held onto the States’ overall market share crown, though Sammy was undoubtedly referring to sales, not subscribers — in other words, there are still a ton of legacy RAZRs out there inflating Moto’s stats.
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Android’s American market share soars, WinMo pays the price
