Twitter / MarsPhoenix
The end of a great use of Twitter 🙁
[From Phoenix mission ops: Phoenix is no longer communicating with Earth. We’ll continue to listen, but it’s likely its mission has ended.]
November 2008
A new dawn
Like a lot of other people I was really happy to see Barack Obama get elected the 44th President of the USA. I’ve been following Obama’s speeches and policy positions for the last 6 months or so and had come to the conclusion that he would be a breath of fresh air for the USA and the wider world. Hopefully he will be able to manoeuvre as he wants in the current economic crisis, and that he gets the full 2 terms. Heck I hope he is so successful that there is a popular uprising to set aside the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution that limits Presidents to 2 terms.
Looks like my Electoral College vote prediction was right on the mark 🙂 That prediction was built on the excellent information posted on the 538 site in the weeks running up the to the election.
Apple grabs 2nd place in Smartphone market
Bests both BlackBerry (and the hardware front) and Microsoft (on the software front). Microsoft is now 4th in the mobile OS vendor table. Which is nice given that Windows Mobile is an abomination to use!
Apple swiftly jumped in second place, grabbing a 17.3 percent share with the iPhone 3G. Apple even bested sales of RIM’s popular BlackBerry models, but the firm is not far behind, taking 15.2 percent of the smartphone market.
More at: Apple leapfrogs RIM for #2 slot on smartphone sales list