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Watch Out iPhone, Android Use Is on the Rise

Watch out Apple iPhone, Google’s mobile operating system, Android continues to increase its popularity at a growth rate of 32 percent year over year, according to a recent report. Mobile advertising provider and metrics firm AdMob, recently acquired by Google for $750 million, released on Tuesday its March 2010 Mobile Metrics Report that includes some interesting data about the growth of the Android operating system. The report also adds more fuel to the argument that Google’s Nexus One really might be a successful flop.

Admob’s metrics data is based on ad requests from 18,000 mobile Web sites and iPhone, Android, webOS, and Flash Lite applications that have partnered with Admob’s advertising network.

Android Growth

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Scott Adams’ unpublished Dilbert: ‘That Lost 4G iPhone’

Dilbert creator Scott Adams blogs, “Two questions I am often asked: How far in advance do you work? How quickly can you publish a comic on a current event?”

“Today I will indirectly answer both questions by talking about something else entirely,” Adams writes. “I assume you’ve all been following the story of the Apple engineer who left a prototype 4G iPhone at a beer garden. I found this story too delicious to resist, but I worried that the story would become stale before my comics would work through the pipeline. I think the soonest I can get something published is in about a month, perhaps a bit sooner, but I’ve never tested it.”

“I drew two comics while considering my options,” Adams writes. “In the end, I thought it wasn’t worth the extra friction to push them to the front of the line. And it would be June 18th before they ran in their normal position, which seemed too far in the future. So here now, exclusively for you blog readers, the totally unfinished first drafts of those comics. You will never see these in newspapers.”

[Thanks: http://macdailynews.com/]