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To: Road Walker who wrote (7046)	7/20/2011 8:05:17 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

>> I'm thinking that with iCloud, anything you do on you home computer, your smartphone, your tablet, your office computer it's right there on the TV immediately. Bigger still. A challenge to network/cable television. TIVO in the sky. Real time delivery of what-ever-it-is-you-want. And lots of monthly recurring service revenue. I live in the country between a town of 50K and and a town of 10K in Arkansas. My Internet service is now delivering 12mbps downstream. There is absolutely no reason I should have to concern myself with what time a program airs, or even about selecting to record it locally on TIVO. Big losers -- ABC, CBS, NBC, HBO, cable networks (except real time events) , NETFLIX, TIVO, DirectTV, etc. I wouldn't want to be any of them. businessinsider.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (7046)	7/20/2011 9:20:49 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

Google+ iPhone App Quickly Tops Apple's List of Free Apps [ed: Another Google iPhone app rockets to the top... LMFAO.. too funny... except if you want one with all the features you'll need an Android phone... as always the iPhone users will be left wanting because of Apple's walled garden... all the killer apps are on Android...] By Sara Yin pcmag.com Does Google+ have more iOS users than Android users? It's barely been 24 hours since Google launched a rather buggy, but long-awaited iPhone app for Google+, but the app has already topped the App Store's list of "Top Free Apps." According to the latest third-party estimates, Google+'s population has more than tripled from five million last week to around 18 million on Tuesday. This feat does not reflect Android app download figures. Google+'s Android app launched the same day as Google+ and, according to Android Market estimates, it has been downloaded between 1-5 million times. Ironically Facebook for Android is the second most-downloaded free app in the Android Market after Google Maps, while Google+ doesn't appear on the list. In a review of Google+'s iOS app, PCMag said the app was a "fine start" but was inhibited by its lack of support for iOS 5 or administrative controls in Huddle (Google+'s group chat feature). Click on the slideshow below to see how the iPhone app for Google+ works. If Facebook's history is anything to go by, mobile apps are imperative to the survival of social networks. In January, Facebook topped the list of most downloaded free iOS apps of all time. Facebook boasts "more than 200 million active users" accessing the network through smartphones, and HTC is betting on Facebook Mobile junkies with a recently announced "Facebook phone," the HTC Status. Now perhaps the greatest edge one social network can have over the other is an iPad app. For more from Sara, follow her on Twitter @sarapyin.