RIMs real problems center around two big issues: its market is saturating, and it seems to have lost the ability to create great products. This is a classic problem that eventually faces most successful computer platforms. The danger is not that RIM is about to collapse, but that itll drift into in a situation where it cant afford the investments needed to succeed in the future.

via Mobile Opportunity: Whats really wrong with BlackBerry and what to do about it.

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Apples blow-out quarter: The bloggers called it. The Street blew it. – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech.

• Infineon PMB 8878 X-Gold baseband IC.
• Skyworks SKY77340 Power Amplifier ModuleThree Triquint power amplifier / filters.
• Infineon U6952Numonyx 36MY1EE
• TriQuint power amplifiers: TQM616035A, TQM666032B, and TQM676031A. These are the same three chips that Apple used in the iPhone 3G nearly 2 years ago.

via 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence.

A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world. The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can produce a 90.00% to 99.99% bacterial reduction in previously untreated water, and has been made free to download as part of access programs under John Wiley & Sons’ Corporate Citizenship Initiative.

Worlds most useful tree provides low-cost water purification method for developing world | Science Codex.

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