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World Wildlife Fund - Save the Tigers

There are as few as 3,200 tigers left in the wild. Together we can secure a future for these magnificent big cats. Join WWF to reach Tx2, our goal to double the number of wild tigers by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger.
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Threatened with Extinction
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Android Rising, but Apple Still Dominates Worldwide according to AdMob

Android Rising, but Apple Still Dominates Worldwide according to AdMob

Mobile ad network AdMob (now part of Google) released its final Mobile Metrics report today (embedded below), at least for a while. AdMob gathers data from millions of phones and mobile devices which serve up its ad impressions, including almost 44 million iOS devices (iPhones, iPod [...]

Droid X vs. iPhone 4

Droid X vs. iPhone 4: Spec Smackdown
Daniel Ionescu, PC World
Jun 23, 2010 5:27 pm
On Wednesday today, Motorola introduced the Droid X — the company’s response to the Apple iPhone 4. On Thursday, the iPhone 4 goes on sale. As a result, the digital world has a smartphone smackdown rivaling a wrestling match promoter Vince McMahon [...]

The New News

D8 Video: NPR CEO Vivian Schiller
Adapting News to today’s digital age, increasing visibilty and distribution - mobile a major component of today’s news.
Onstage with Kara Swisher, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller talked about the future of radio, the prospects for high-quality journalism and the ways the public radio unit could help create a more powerful network [...]

Steve Jobs says Flurry’s detailed app analytics were “pissing us off”

Story by VentureBeat
June 2, 2010 | Paul Boutin
n April, Apple abruptly changed the rules in its written agreement to which iPhone app developers are required to conform if they want to be carried in Apple’s App Store. “The use of third party software in Your Application to collect and send Device Data to a third [...]

Nielsen Reports on the State of Mobile Apps…

Nielsen Reports on the State of Mobile Apps: Travel/Lifestyle Surprisingly at the Bottom of the Heap
By Todd Ogasawara on Jun 02, 2010 02:55 AM
From the venerable Nielsen ratings people comes:
The State of Mobile Apps
The iPhone leads the way with the highest average number of installed apps per user: 37. Android is a distant but respectable [...]

Why BlackBerry Users Will Defect

Despite bells and whistles, the device misses the ‘fun factor.’
by Mike Schuster
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Provided by MarketWatch
Call it a matter of touch-screen envy, but many BlackBerry users are starting to feel the 24-month-contract itch.
And they’re willing to switch to Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone or Google Inc.’s (GOOG) Nexus One, according to a recent study.
Conducted by [...]

iPhone In-App Purchase Options

Here’s an informative blog post by Flurry Analytics on In App Purchases for iPhone from the app creators perspective:
The ability for developers to offer in-app-purchases within paid iPhone apps, as part of iPhone OS 3.0, creates exciting new revenue opportunities. At the same time, the option to sell virtual goods, additional game levels, subscriptions and [...]

Final Four: Hollywood meets heartland at Hinkle

INDIANAPOLIS — Jan Currier came into Hinkle Fieldhouse on Tuesday and pointed her camera toward the cavernous ceiling. Then the resident of nearby Plainfield, Ind., took pictures of the scoreboard hanging over midcourt. And of the afternoon sunlight slanting through the vast windows.
It was her 42nd wedding anniversary, and this is where she and husband [...]

Whale joins woman paddling 40 miles for cancer research

Get the Boarding for Breast Cancer app for your iPhone or iTouch and support the effort to create awareness about Breast Cancer.