Plus John Gruber on dominance of Apple's iPad, and Danny Sullivan slams Google over Google+
A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Scoble: Twitter Is A Mess, And Jack Needs To Fix It Fast >> Business Insider
"When was the last time Twitter introduced a killer feature? Photos? We still don't even know how those are supposed to work. And, for what it's worth, we see the company's founders using Instagram a lot, so there's obviously something busted with Twitter's photos."
Google Tried To Buy Color For $200 Million. Color Said No. >> TechCrunch
Arrington says Color should have taken the deal.
The iPad's Dominance of the Tablet Market >> Daring Fireball
Says Gruber: "I'm not trying to cherry-pick data. I'm simply observing, based on Apple's sales data and Google's activation data, that the tablet market doesn't today look anything like the smartphone market ever did. The iPad didn't enter the tablet market. It created the tablet market. The iPad's role in the tablet market much more closely resembles the iPod's role in the digital music player market a decade ago than it does the iPhone's role in the 2008 phone market."
Google Rejected Sun $100M Java-Android Deal >> Bloomberg
Separately, Oracle won permission to question Larry Page about his knowledge of the Google's alleged infringement of patents that Oracle got when it acquired Sun. Grab the popcorn.
Judge criticizes Google and Oracle at hearing >> Reuters
Both Oracle and Google have taken unreasonable positions on the scale of damages involved in a high stakes patent battle over the Android operating system, a U.S. judge said in court.
"You're both asking for the moon and you should be more reasonable," U.S. District Judge William Alsup said in a testy hearing on Thursday.
An open letter to Google+ >> Danny Sullivan
Ouch. Search Engine Land chief tells it like it his: "For one, you know that Twitter and Facebook both support brands, and that there would obviously be demand for this here. You failed to implement that support. Bad on you."
Report: Microsoft worldwide tablet operating-system share at 5%, PlayBook 3.3% >> ZDNet
"According to numbers released on June 21 by Boston-based research firm Strategy Analytics, global tablet shipments reached 15m units in the second quarter of 2011. Apple maintained first position with 61% share -- down substantially from 94% a year earlier. Tablets running Android, meanwhile, zoomed to 30% operating system share from 3% in the year-ago second quarter."
Note that this is shipments, not sales. As Mary Jo Foley points out, just because it's shipped doesn't mean it's left a retailer's shelves.
Fujitsu Introduces Windows® 7 F-07C Mobile Phone >> Fujitsu Global
"Fujitsu today announced that the new Windows® 7 F-07C mobile phone will be available in Japan from NTT DOCOMO, Inc. beginning July 23, 2011.
"The F-07C mobile phone, featuring Windows® 7(1), is the world's smallest PC(2) that fits into the palm of the user's hand.
"F-07C comes standard with a two-year license for Microsoft® Office Personal 2010-an essential business tool-and other basic PC functionality, in addition to convenient mobile phone features such as Osaifu-Keitai. By combining both PC and mobile phone functionality, F-07C opens the door to a range of new uses."
Includes pictures. (Go on, have a look.) You will require heroic eyesight and fingers made of pinheads to use one of these. Atom processor (natch). Claimed battery life: "~2 hours in Windows 7 mode." We'd like to see that.
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