ShareThe Motorola Droid is the so-called iPhone killer. Is it the real deal?  Mossberg seems to think so.

See also: Motorola’s Droid Is Smart Success for Verizon Users – Walt Mossberg, WSJ

ShareI have actually been on Twitter for some time now. But I wanted to update all of you with some social networking features the site now has and ways you can get more out of the content. Today, I will just talk about Twitter.
Twitter
I really like Twitter as a platform. What separates Twitter from some [...]

ShareI recently switched from a Windows Mobile telephone to an Android-based mobile phone.  When I was making the switch, I had to decide whether I was going with the iPhone, which my wife uses. or to run with Blackberry or Android, a Google-centric operating system (Symbian, which runs Nokia phones, and the Palm-based OS look [...]

SharePete Cashmore launched a blog called Mashable from his home in Scotland in 2005.  You may have seen the articles from the site in the links from time to time. Well, this happens to be the number 1 social media-focused blog on the Internet, usurping prior leader TechCrunch’s position. Cashmore’s site gets 10 million page [...]

ShareMoodys pone en perspectiva negativa cdulas hipotecarias de Bancaja y CAM – Finanzas
Moodys is downgrading Spanish savings banks. There is still significant weakness in the financial sector in Spain. The Spanish desperately want a housing market bottoming like the one which could be developing in the UK.

Output rises 5.9% for third straight monthly increase | [...]

ShareUnfortunately I was out this weekend and did not post the 5 bank seizures by the FDIC on Friday.  They are below in the links.

China’s banks are an accident waiting to happen to every one of us – Ambrose Pritchard-Evans, Telegraph
"Fitch Ratings has been warning for some time that China’s lenders are wading into dangerous [...]

ShareThis one is due out tomorrow.  His review is pretty favorable.  But, he does say its not a must upgrade if you already have an iPhone.

ShareThe Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg has a nice video explaining how much he likes the new Palm Pre smartphone and why he thinks it could rival the iPhone going forward.  He thinks its a challenger to the Blackberry as well. It comes out on Saturday.  I thought Palm was basically dead.
If it does well, [...]

ShareI have grown pretty frustrated with FeedBurner, the RSS Feed Service now owned by Google.  Often, my posts have not  gone out immediately. There are significant ‘outages’ where the service is just plain broken.  And their Feed count reporting has become pretty screwy.  So, I have switched to FeedBlitz, a new competing service.  If you [...]

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