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Demand for Flash Memory to Soar as Phone Makers Play Catch Up with the iPhone	Analysts at Bank of America have examined the telephone market, and came to the conclusion that the moment is near when the term "smart phone" will disappear, because by next year more smart phones will be sold than regular phones. According to Nokia (NOK), in 2011 about 65% of the industry's sales will be of telephones up to now called "smart" because they were rare items. Bank of America estimates that the veteran telephone producers, Nokia, Palm (PALM), and RIM (RIMM), wil...	December 16, 2009
Bing, Google Take U.S. Search Share From Yahoo In November, ComScore Says	Microsoft (MSFT) Bing and Google (GOOG) both appeared to take market share from Yahoo (YHOO) in November, according to new data from ComScore. Google had 65.6% share for the month, up from 65.4% a month ago, and 63.5% a year ago. Microsoft Bing had 10.3% share, up from 9.9% a month ago, and 8.3% a year ago. Yahoo’s market share dropped to 17.5%, down from 18% a month ago, and 20.4% a year ago. Ask.com (IACI) had 3.8% share in the quarter, down from 3.9% a month ago, and 4% a year ago. AOL...	December 16, 2009
Google's Potential for Evil	Have you noticed how most bloggers are at their meanest best early in the day? Come 4:20pm, they simply don’t have the same energy levels.You’ve not noticed? Well Google (GOOG) has! And the search giant has a growing tendency to announce potentially polarizing news late in the day....	December 15, 2009
Google's New DNS Service Has One Major Flaw: Poor Performance	Last week, when Google (GOOG) announced on its blog that the company getting into the DNS business, many people on the web wanted to debate whether or not it would give Google too much control over the Internet, by questioning how Google would use the data that's collected. While I don't disagree that it is a valid concern, since no one is being forced to use Google's DNS offering, to me, that's not the real story.What we should be discussing as an industry is the performance of Google's Public ...	December 15, 2009
Diamond Offshore: Pull-back is buy opportunity	Filed under: Stocks to BuyRare is the day one should sell an oil/natural gas services play; but rare also is the day that I recommend a stock near $100. However, there are exceptions, and Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO) is one, which is why I'm Reiterating my Buy rating for the company's shares, first recommended on June 10, 2009 at a price of $91.63. Diamond Offshore is considered to be better-positioned than other offshore oil/natural gas drillers for 2009-2010, due to a strong backlog of exist...	December 14, 2009
Google Phone: A Lesson In Creating Demand	Google (GOOG) is the master of creating demand, and it started with a single tweet: Since then, technology and gadget bloggers have been in a frenzy not seen by me since the iPhone was first announced. I’m not about to get into the many details of Google’s Nexus One phone–I’m going to take a different angle, below–but you can read all about the unlocked Android phone, here, here, and here. Oh, and here’s what it looks like:...	December 14, 2009
Google Reportedly To Offer Phone With T-Mobile Contract	Google (GOOG) will sell a version of the Google Phone, or the Nexus One, or whatever it is calling its own handset, at a reduced price to consumers who sign up for a service contrast with the T-Mobile unit of Deutsche Telekom, Reuters reports, citing “a source familiar with the matter.” The source said the phone could available direct from Google as soon as January 5. ...	December 14, 2009
Netlist Sues Google For Patent Infringement	Netlist (NLST) has filed a patent infringement suit in federal court in San Francisco against Google (GOOG), Bloomberg reports. The wire service writes that the company alleges that Google’s computer servers infringe a patent for a memory module that increases capacity and improves energy efficiency. Netlist is seeking cash compensation and a court order preventing further use of its invention. The case was filed on December 4. NLST today is up 38 cents, or 7%, to $5.82. ...	December 14, 2009
Google's Phone Doesn't Change Things Much (Yet)	In their usual over-enthusiasm for all things with touchscreens (too soon?), CrunchGear has been gushing over Google’s (GOOG) rumored phone. Google has confirmed that they are working on “a device” without further specifics. That hasn’t stopped CrunchGear from actually writing: …if and when Google starts selling this thing, prepare for some of the strangest – and coolest – times in mobile we’ve ever experienced....	December 14, 2009
The Unlocked Phone Movement Gets a Big Boost	Mobile phones here in the US are sold by carriers and often locked down so that the device and the network are hard wired to each other. The iPhone (AAPL) is the best known example of this technique. I've written a lot about this bundling of device and network and why I think it is bad for consumers and software developers.Yesterday the news started leaking out that Google is going to break with this tradition shortly and sell its own Google (GOOG) branded phone unlocked and without a carrier pa...	December 13, 2009