2.0 is here... after all this time do you want it? 

MobileBurn.com - At long last, RIM has released the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 software update. The update includes a number of features that users have been waiting for, including native email, contacts, and calendar apps as well as a refined home screen. Unfortunately, none of the additions make the PlayBook any more compelling for new tablet customers. 

A Mozilla OS? Why? We have Windows 8 and it has tiles and...stuff.

Mozilla, the folks behind the Firefox web browser, launched a project last year to create a totally open mobile operating system, and now that dream is nearly a reality. Boot to Gecko (B2G) is built entirely with standards-compliant web technologies like HTML and JavaScript. It gets its name from the Gecko rendering engine in Firefox, which is also the platform that will run B2G. Android has a number of things in common with B2G, for instance it is open source, and uses some of the same underlying technology. Designing the entirety of a mobile operating system on web standards is a risky proposition, but B2G does have some advantages over Android.

Clearly in the “win” column for Mozilla is the multi-layered architecture of B2G. The lowest level is called Gonk, and includes the Linux kernel, hardware interface, and other low-level features. Next up is the Gecko rendering engine, and on top of that is Gaia. Mozilla has built Gaia to be the user interface layer, and it’s all HTML and JavaScript. This system is modular, and an OEM or developer is free to swap components out.

So, having a bettery that does not remove is cause to say they screwed up? Really? Did you read the specs before you bought it? 

Droid 4 reviews are popping up everywhere. We’re doing ours a little different. Instead of posting a “review” after spending just 24 hours with the phone like other sites, we’re living with it for a week, publishing several articles on it and then concluding with a full review after actually living with the phone for a while. But one thing was clear even before the phone launched: Motorola messed up forgoing a removable battery for a meaningless reduction in thickness.

The original Droid started the Android revolution. It was the anti-iPhone: an open OS, sliding QWERTY keyboard, available on Verizon and featured a removable battery and expandable memory. Now many of those advantages are moot points. Android is no longer viewed as open, most people are sold on virtual keyboards, the iPhone is available everywhere, and now, thanks to Motorola, the Droid 4 features a built-in battery. Sorry, power users. 

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Holy...crap...Batman...

The era of mobile mobile computing was launched through the introduction of the iPhone in 2007.

And since then, the explosive growth has not stopped with 2011 being the most pivotal year we have seen since the launch of the era of smartphones.

Here are some numbers to show you the growth or decline which happened in 2011.  

• 166% — Growth in the number of Facebook Mobile users for the first half of the year = 350 Million mobile users.
• 26 photos — Shared per second via Instagram.
• 8 Trillion – Number of  Text Messages were sent.
• 103 Million — Wireless Tweets were sent.
• 1 Billion – Foursquare check-ins.

Read the rest of the doc... damn... that's a hell of a lot of tweets....