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We’re becoming App-aholics
Demand for smart phone applications is outstripping software for computers
By Suzy Parker, USA TODAY
Why didn’t someone think of this sooner? Computer applications for an iPhone cost from 99 cents to $900. The $900 is abnormally high since most are under $10. If you buy one and don’t like it, you throw it away.
The smart phone application market is estimated at $3 billion annually. To put it in perspective, Microsoft the world’s largest software company had annual revenues of $58 billion last year.
There is an iPhone application for everything. You can write posts for a blog, take pictures and post them (without cropping), take a video and post to YouTube, update Twitter and Facebook, tune your guitar, watch NASA videos and check email. You can read this blog on an iPhone or other smart phone.
We can check stock prices, play music videos, check the bank, see whats happening in town and download mandolin chords while cruising along the Rive Sud in Quebec.
There are more than 100,000 applications for smart phones with thousands more on the way. Some are fun, some are nothing but propaganda for companies and some are very useful. Most teenagers have hundreds on their phones.
Nortel pensioners get deal to December 31
What do they do after that?
Nortel pensioners will soon find poverty their daily grind. Photograph by: Pat McGrath, The Ottawa Citizen
Nortel’s ex-employees living on disability benefit got a short reprieve yesterday. The on-again-off-again deal to preserve their benefits despite the bankruptcy is back on again.
Nortel disability pensioners will be living at 64% of the poverty line in 2011. The Canadian safety net for those living with disabilities is not adequate.
The court order striking the original deal was apparently all over one little clause that said the $57 million agreement to extend benefits could over-ride changes in the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.
The deal was originally opposed by Nortel employees with long term disabilities. They still face the reality of joining the majority of Canada’s disabled. They will be poor.