Samsung’s Galaxy S3 overtakes iPhone

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Samsung electronics’ GalaxyS3 became the world’s best-selling smartphone model last quarter, pushing aside Apple Inc’s iPhone, which has dominated the chart for more than two years, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

Strategy Analytics estimated Samsung sold 18 million S3 models in the third quarter, compared with iPhone 4S sales of 16.2 million.

Strong sales of the flagship Galaxy S3, which comes with a large 4.8-inch touchscreen , helped Samsung post a record $7.3 billion operating profit in the July-September quarter.

Courtesy: The Ottawa Citizen@OttawaCitizen

Can the Internet make dreaming more social? Inter-dream communication experiments are already underway

The Internet is a vastly more social place than it was a decade ago, but sometime in the future you may not have to be awake to connect to friends online, you could say ‘hello’ and even play games, while dreaming.

Experiments in so called inter-dream communication is already being carried out, like social dreaming.

Courtesy: Forbes@Forbes

Mitt Romney's campaign cancelled its staffers’ credit cards in the middle of the night...

The next time you have the misfortune of hearing a Wall Street titan or other one-percenter whine about how their trickle-down contributions are not appreciated by the masses remember this tidbit, courtesy of Garrett Haake at NBC: “From the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday (November 6) night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself. Aides taking cabs home late that night got rude awakenings when they found the credit cards linked to the campaign no longer worked.”

Maybe that’s what you get for taking a job with a multi-millionaire who boasts about the fact that he sneaks popcorn into movie theatres in wife’s handbag, so he doesn’t have to pay inflated concession prices for a snack.

Courtesy: Forbes@Forbes

Obama victory tweet becomes his most retweeted ever

President Obama may have won a second term last night, but he also got a new feather in his cap. His victory tweet became the most-retweeted message from his account.

As of 11:30 a.m. Wednesday (November 7), the message had been shared more than 670,000 times and counting.

Those numbers may even give Obama the title for most-retweeted message of all time. By MediaBistro’s Shea Bennett’s reckoning, the victory tweet far outstrips a message from Justin Bieber that had around 223,000 retweets and previously held the list’s top spot.

Courtesy: The Washington Post@washingtonpost

Staying relevant on scale: How content targeting in the US election helped Obama secure a second term

The US election reached a frenetic climax last week, with the two main candidates leaving a huge digital footprint in their wake. From ubiquitous search-and-display advertising to virally seeded videos and social-media trends, an estimated 12% of a collective $8bn campaign spend has been poured into digital over the past few months.

As any technologically minded cynic will tell you, messages of empathy and conviction were crafted with greater relevancy than ever to carefully segmented audiences. For instance, micro-targeting enabled Obama’s team to direct radio ads to specific mining communities in Ohio. New data points from Facebook meant both parties were able to reach subsets of their millions of page fans with assurances on the policies that mattered most to them.

At the same time, however, candidates have also had to meet new levels of user expectation in receiving only the most satisfying content. Leaving brands a lot of lessons to learn on content targeting.

Courtesy: BrandRepublic@BrandRepublic

How listening to music at the office affects your work life

Music is a ubiquitous accessory in nearly every office and across all careers, but it wasn’t always like this; professional lives remained essentially tuneless until the early 20th century.

Music, it has been found, can kick-start your brain, make you feel good even while engaged in boring work, and tell you a lot about your co-workers.

Courtesy: Businessweek@BW

There's a war brewing over wireless charging

Although the consumer demand is potentially huge, wireless charging has been slow to take off. There are currently fewer than 10 million devices in circulation in the U.S. able to charge wirelessly, mostly phones and accessories, according to researcher IHS. But as the technology has improved, that’s changing. Global shipments of wirelessly charged devices are projected to rise from 5 million units this year to nearly 100 million by 2015, according to IHS.

The first charging stations based on the technology should come out next year. And Intel said in August that it’s working with a partner to make components that enable mobile phones to wirelessly charge from a laptop. Without one accepted standard, though, companies run the risk of investing in products that may be obsolete in a couple of years.

Courtesy: Businessweek@BW