Category: News

We were fortunate enough and proud to have not one, but two themes made for BlackBerry Sync. Built By Request designed this one, which emulates our site. What better way to show your love for BlackBerry Sync than to sport it on your BlackBerry. So let’s take a closer look at the details…

The BlackBerry Sync Theme includes the following:

The front screen shows on the top from left to right: Battery life, alarm, time, alerts, coverage, bars of service. The red bar below that from left to right: Home (Browser), Launcher (Connections), Reviews (Calendar), Send Tips (Contacts), Store, About (Options), Contact (Contacts), and the magnifying glass which brings up Search. Below that sits our BlackBerry Sync banner and the date. Next is a grey icon that if you scroll through it will highlight all of your apps you have in the next screen, first row. The icon below it will show the app first in the second row. It’s open for a weather app so that you can display your weather if you like.

The next screen with all your folders and apps sits in front of the BlackBerry Sync wallpaper. The Options and messages show a grey screen with red highlight and red letters that turn white when highlighted. Very effective use of our colors.

It’s really smooth in how it looks, the front screen looks like our site, and a wallpaper of BlackBerry Sync is in the background of the other screens. It’s a premium theme and all for the special price of FREE. If you like themes, you will really like this one. It looks good and it has some features that are unique, and very User Interactive.

The theme is both professional and fun, and we’re really honored that we have such great theme designers create such wonderful masterpieces for us. Thank you Built By Request for the great theme.

Grab your BBSYNC Exclusive Theme from Built By Request for FREE here

The theme is compatible with the following OS: 4.7 (9630 only) and 5.0

Compatible with devices:85xx, 89xx, 9000, 9630, 9700.

You’re reading a story which originated at BlackBerrySync.com, Where you find BlackBerry News You Can Sync With…

This story is sponsored by the new BlackBerry Sync Mobile App Store. Grab your free copy today at www.GetAppStore.com from your BlackBerry.

BlackBerry Sync Birthday Gift: The Exclusive BBSYNC Theme By Built By Request

Related posts:

1. A Look At Alienation By Built By Request This is a theme worthy of your attention. And…
2. Review: The Premium Beatles Theme That Will Rock Your BlackBerry FREE There are themes of all sorts, but this is…
3. The Berry Electric: A New Theme For The BlackBerry Tour by NinjaThemes Introducing The Berry Electric for the Tour. NinjaThemes has…

Mozilla is working on integrating features that would normally be part of a web service directly into the browser. One example of this is the Firefox Contacts add-on, which creates a sort of local and integrated address book by pulling contact data from various sources either online or from local address books. The project … (read more)

[JURIST] US President Barack Obama on Thursday called for new financial regulations, outlining the major components of his proposal. Answering critics who claim that the reforms will increase bailouts, Obama compared the concept behind the proposed financial reforms to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a government program he says protects confidence in the banking system and protects consumers while eliminating the need for ad hoc bailouts when banks become insolvent. According to Obama, the reform will contain four central elements: the Volcker Rule to limit the size of banks and the risks allowable, transparency to expose the underlying risk in complex financial instruments, consumer protections to combat predatory lending, and increases in shareholder power to give investors input on executive salaries and bonuses. Obama argued that new financial reforms are vital to the future of the US economy:
In the end, our system only works – our markets are only free – when there are basic safeguards that prevent abuse, that check excesses, that ensure that it is more profitable to play by the rules than to game the system. And that is what the reforms we’ve been proposing are designed to achieve – no more, no less.Republican lawmakers, including House minority leader John Boehner (R-OH) have voiced opposition to Obama’s plan.Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee on Monday introduced the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010, aimed at increasing financial regulation in the wake of the recent financial crisis. This bill is the second financial reform bill to be proposed by the Senate Banking Committee following the 2008 financial crisis. The 2009 bill was met with resistance and resulted in the committee’s development of the new bill. In December, the US House of Representatives approved a similar bill. The US House Financial Services Committee had approved a bill to create a consumer financial protection agency in October, after originally delaying it at the behest of financial industry leaders in July. The creation of the agency is a key step in achieving the Obama administration’s stated goal of tightening financial industry regulations. In June, the administration proposed a broad series of regulatory reforms aimed at restoring confidence in the US financial system.

KNOXVILLE — Samuel Doty, a senior at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been selected for a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Russian in Russia during the summer of 2010.

Doty, of Unicoi, is majoring in psychology, French and Russian. He plans to attend graduate school in social psychology.

“I’d like to become a specialist in conflict resolution. A language background, especially in a language as globally critical as Russian, will provide opportunities for involvement in the international political and policy arenas,” he said. “I’m very excited about the upcoming summer because I think the CLS program will enable a formative learning experience to guide my future education and career.”

This year, the U.S. Department of State has selected approximately 575 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Persian, Russian, Indic (Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu) and Turkic (Turkish and Azerbaijani) languages.

The students will spend seven to 10 weeks in intensive language institutes this summer in 15 countries where these languages are spoken. They also will support their language acquisition through cultural immersion activities. CLS program participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.

The 2010 CLS program received nearly 5,300 applications. Students from a range of academic disciplines and U.S. colleges and universities from all 50 states were selected for scholarships in 2010 through a merit-based selection process.

The CLS program was launched in 2006 to increase opportunities for American students to study critical-need languages overseas and is part of a wider U.S. government effort to dramatically expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical-need languages.

CLS program participants are among the more than 40,000 academic and professional exchange program participants supported annually by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to promote mutual understanding and respect between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The CLS program is administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and the American Councils for International Education.

For further information about the CLS program or the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, see http://www.clscholarship.org and http://exchanges.state.gov.

C O N T A C T :

Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, [email protected])

Ubuntu 10.04 RC was released yesterday and is available for download at the official Ubuntu release page. Head over to this page, navigate to the bottom and there, you will see a number of releases for you to choose from.

If you are interested in the DVD and the source CD, visit this page instead. This includes most common Ubuntu custom distros featuring different desktop environments.

Please do not put the entire load on the main servers and user the download mirrors if possible. The list of download mirrors is also available. A common system requirement is 256 MB of RAM. If you own a newer Intel processor powered Mac system, good news is that you can install Ubuntu on it as well.

This page includes the server, netbook, alternative and the very common desktop version. The desktop version is also a Live CD so you can give Ubuntu a try and decide on whether to install the final version or not. This will not alter your current installations in any way.

A great software to consider when installing Ubuntu with Windows is Wubi. If you want to try Ubuntu inside Windows, go for Windows Ubuntu Installer Wubi. It makes Ubuntu easy to install and does not make any major changes in the boot-loader.

My suggestion is that, with the release of RC only a few days away, you should wait for the final version though surely, give this RC a try.

Don’t miss these Related Posts:

• Install Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Beta 2 using Wubi
• Ubuntu Tweaks: Version 0.5.0 Release
• Portable Ubuntu Remix Runs Ubuntu As a Native Windows App
• Download Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Netbook Remix
• X Server 1.8 Snapshot 2 Release

Join Techie Buzz on Your Favorite Social Networking Sites

• Become a Techie Buzz fan on Facebook
• Follow Techie Buzz on Twitter

O mercado chinês está crescendo cada vez mais, e este é o momento dos maiores fabricantes de carros apresentarem os seus novos modelos no Salão do Automóvel de Pequim, que se iniciou no último dia 20 e vai até o próximo dia 28.

Uma das maiores (literalmente) atrações do evento esse ano é o clone do Rolls-Royce, o CA7600L da Geely. O carro tem quase seis metros de comprimento e chega a ser maior que o Rolls-Royce Phantom, com um estilo dos anos 50 em sua parte frontal.

Algumas outras atrações ocidentais são a Ferrari 599, e outros carros interessantes, como o Lexus RX Style S6 e o Mercedes SL-style S8. Outras estrelas do evento são os conceitos, entre eles podemos citar o britânico MG Zero, e o elétrico Roewe E1. Recentemente, um carro que foi comentado foi o Volkswagen Phaeton, visto com maiores detalhes nesse post. Fiquem com algumas imagens do evento e durante o dia acompanhe maiores informações.

Imagens do evento

Via | Autocar.uk

Are your homemade cookies often mistaken for bakery cookies, either because they are so delicious or you get them to come out perfectly shaped and baked every time? If you’re sick of people doubting the authenticity of your homemade creations – or doubting your ability as a baker because they don’t know about your food blogger alter-ego – there is a simple product out there that can help: the Homemade Cookie Stamper. This brilliant stamp from SuckUK isn’t for ink pads, it’s for food. Use it to stamp the words “Home Made” onto a batch of cookies or other baked goods. It works especially well in peanut butter cookies, butter cookies, shortbread and other doughs that don’t spread too much because you’ll get the neatest imprint that way, but you can use it with just about anything that is soft enough to take the imprint.

Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. I spent ten years of my life working on that magnificent machine, from using observations of a supernova for my PhD, all the way to helping test, calibrate, and eventually use STIS, a camera put on Hubble in 1997.

Last year, I published Ten Things You Don’t Know About Hubble, and I don’t think I can really add much to it here. I also have a lot of new readers since then, so I’ll simply repost it now as my tip o’ the dew shield to the world’s most famous observatory.

Introduction

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into space, carrying on board a revolution: The Hubble Space Telescope. It was the largest and most sensitive optical-light telescope ever launched into space, and while it suffered initially from a focusing problem, it would soon return some of the most amazing and beautiful astronomical images anyone had ever seen.

Hubble was designed to be periodically upgraded, and even as I write this, astronauts are in the Space Shuttle Atlantis installing two new cameras, fixing two others, and replacing a whole slew of Hubble’s parts. This is the last planned mission, ever, to service the venerable ’scope, so what better time to talk about it?

Plus, it’s arguably the world’s most famous telescope (it’s probably the only one people know by name), and yet I suspect that there are lots of things about it that might surprise you. So I present to you Ten Things You Don’t Know About the Hubble Space Telescope, part of my Ten Things series. I know, my readers are smart, savvy, exceptionally good-looking, and well-versed in things astronomical. Whenever I do a Ten Things post some goofball always claims they knew all ten. But I am extremely close to being 100% positive that no one who reads this blog will know all ten things here (unless they’ve used Hubble themselves). I have one or two big surprises in this one, including some of my own personal interactions with the great observatory!

Filed under: Etc.

Let’s face it, watch fans: few of the supposedly automotive-inspired timepieces out on the market bear much automotive inspiration beyond a logo or maybe the odd design flourish. But this is something else.

Upon announcing its licensing agreement with Formula One Management last month, Swiss watchmaker Hublot revealed the monochromatic F1 King watch, which by and large followed the same rules as everyone else: slap a logo on there and call it a day. But that was just a stopgap measure until this piece came along.

Called the F1 King Power, this watch is crammed with racing-inspired design features, from the ceramic bezel made to look like an F1 brake disc to the chronograph push-buttons styled after an F1 steering wheel’s to the rubber-coated Nomex wrist-strap. The case is made of satin-finish zirconium with PVD-coated titanium components, packing the HUB 4100 automatic chronograph movement with a tungsten-carbide rotor and a 42-hour power reserve. Now that’s more like it.

The watch was unveiled this past weekend in Shanghai during the Chinese Grand Prix. You can view photos from the event in the gallery below and read the details in the press release after the jump.

[Source: Hublot]

Continue reading Hublot reveals F1 King Power watch during Chinese Grand Prix

Hublot reveals F1 King Power watch during Chinese Grand Prix originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments

We have created a new planet. Not entirely new. It looks more or less like the one we were born into; the same physical laws operate it. But the changes that have already happened are large enough that if you were visiting our planet in a spaceship, this place would look really different from the outside than it did just decades ago — call it “Eaarth.”

Bill McKibben co-founded 350.org. This Wonk Room repost excerpts his new book, “EAARTH: Making A Life in a Tough New World.” .

I wrote the preface to my new book EAARTH on a gorgeous spring afternoon in 2009, perched on the bank of a brook high along the spine of the Green Mountains, a mile or so from my home in the Vermont mountain town of Ripton. The creek burbles along, the picture of a placid mountain stream, but a few feet away there’s a scene of real violence a deep gash through the woods where a flood in the summer of 2008 ripped away many cubic feet of tree and rock and soil and drove it downstream through the center of the village. Before the afternoon was out, the only paved road into town had been demolished by the rushing water, a string of bridges lay in ruins, and the governor was trying to reach the area by helicopter.

Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote the first book for a general audience about global warming, which in those days we called the “greenhouse effect.” That book, The End of Nature, was mainly a philosophical argument. It was too early to see the practical effects of climate change but not too early to feel them; in the most widely excerpted passage of the book, I described walking down a different river, near my then-home sixty miles away, in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. Merely knowing that we’d begun to alter the climate meant that the water flowing in that creek had a different, lesser meaning. “Instead of a world where rain had an independent and mysterious existence, the rain had become a subset of human activity,” I wrote. “The rain bore a brand; it was a steer, not a deer.”

Now, that sadness has turned into a sharper-edged fear. Walking along this river today, you don’t need to imagine a damned thing — the evidence of destruction is all too obvious. Much more quickly than we would have guessed in the late 1980s, global warming has dramatically altered, among many other things, hydrological cycles. One of the key facts of the twenty-first century turns out to be that warm air holds more water vapor than cold: in arid areas this means increased evaporation and hence drought. And once that water is in the atmosphere, it will come down, which in moist areas like Vermont means increased deluge and flood.

In our Vermont town, in the summer of 2008, we had what may have been the two largest rainstorms in our history about six weeks apart. The second and worse storm, on the morning of August 6, dropped at least six inches of rain in three hours up on the steep slopes of the mountains. Those forests are mostly intact, with only light logging to disturb them but that was far too much water for the woods to absorb. One of my neighbors, Amy Sheldon, is a river researcher, and she was walking through the mountains with me one recent day, imagining the floods on that August morning. “You would have seen streams changing violently like that,” she said, snapping her fingers. “A matter of minutes.” A year later the signs persisted: streambeds gouged down to bedrock, culverts obliterated, groves of trees laid to jackstraws. . . .

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality. We’ve changed the planet, changed it in large and fundamental ways. And these changes are far, far more evident in the toughest parts of the globe, where climate change is already wrecking thousands of lives daily. In July 2009, Oxfam released an epic report, “Suffering the Science,” which concluded that even if we now adapted “the smartest possible curbs” on carbon emissions, “the prospects are very bleak for hundreds of millions of people, most of them among the world’s poorest.”

And so EAARTH is, by necessity, less philosophical than its predecessor. We need now to understand the world we’ve created, and consider urgently how to live in it. We can’t simply keep stacking boulders against the change that’s coming on every front; we’ll need to figure out what parts of our lives and our ideologies we must abandon so that we can protect the core of our societies and civilizations. There’s nothing airy or speculative about this conversation; it’s got to be uncomfortable, staccato, direct.

Which doesn’t mean that the change we must make or the world on the other side will be without its comforts or beauties. Reality always comes with beauty, sometimes more than fantasy. But hope has to be real. It can’t be a hope that the scientists will turn out to be wrong, or that President Barack Obama can somehow fix everything. Obama can help but precisely to the degree he’s willing to embrace reality, to understand that we live on the world we live on, not the one we might wish for. Maturity is not the opposite of hope; it’s what makes hope possible.

From the Book EAARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben. Copyright (c) 2010 by Bill McKibben. Reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved.

KNOXVILLE — Maj. Gen. Douglas Carver, the U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains and a 1973 alumnus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will speak at the Army ROTC Spring Military Formal on Saturday and meet with campus officials and the campus ministries before heading back to Washington, D.C., next week.

A native of Rome, Ga., Carver earned his bachelor’s degree in religious studies from UT.

After serving on active duty for six years after graduation, he resigned his commission to enter the ministry.

He went on to earn his master of divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and a master’s degree in strategic studies from the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.

He was commissioned as an Army chaplain in June 1984 and became the 22nd Chief of Chaplains in July 2007.

Carver has served as a field artillery officer and Army chaplain in a myriad of assignments worldwide. He spends most of his time traveling to military installations, meeting with soldiers and their families and developing programs for them. He also advises senior Army leadership on the spiritual well-being of the military.

“With prolonged military operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, there’s never been a greater need to focus on the comprehensive fitness of our soldiers and their families,” said Lt. Col. Dave Leach, head of the UT Army ROTC Program. “The Army has taken a holistic approach to ensure the Army family has all the necessary resources to cope with the stressors associated with the current operating environment.”

C O N T A C T :

Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, [email protected])

The HDMX Mini Boom Box is an affordable solution if you are looking for a new iPod dock/ radio. It comes in the colors hot pink and black and is pretty affordable at $49.99 from Bed Bath and Beyond. Sound wise who knows what the quality is. It also has a digital FM radio with eight station presets and an LCD clock readout. It’s portable with its big handle and can be used with the power adapter or batteries. It also includes a remote control. The Mini Boom Box supports the Nano, iPod Classic, and Mini – if anyone still has that!.

Going through the system update the other day, Sony told us that the new firmware added Trophy-sorting features, as well as preparation for 3D gaming. Add this to the list of what Sony does to

Whatever Sony’s promises may have been regarding stereoscopic 3D performance on the PS3, we’re going to get what we get. And so far, that’s 1080p content at 60fps (2D) turning into 720p content at 30fps (3D). More »

GM Renaissance Center Headquarters

A Republican senator said that General Motors’ payment of federal loans this week was nothing more than a “money shuffle” and said that the company paid federal loans with other U.S. funds. Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Finance Committee, cited an auditor’s report that GM payment was coming from U.S. Troubled Asset Relief Program funds in an escrow account, rather than from GM earnings.

“It is unclear how GM and the administration could have accurately announced yesterday that GM repaid its TARP loans in any meaningful way,” Grassley said in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. “The taxpayers are still on the hook, and whether TARP funds are ultimately recovered depends entirely on the government’s ability to sell GM stock in the future.”

GM announced on April 21 that it made its final payment of $5.8 billion to the U.S. Treasury and Export Development Canada, paying back its government loans in full.

GM received $50 billion of U.S. assistance in its bailout, much of which was converted into stock. The Obama administration holds 61 percent of the common stock in the Detroit automaker.

– By: Stephen Calogera

Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required)

There’s something of a bond between Qwest Communications (Q) and footnoted. In 2002, my experience as an investor in Qwest prompted me to write Financial Fine Print and the company has been a frequent flyer here on the site, appearing in more posts over the years than any other company.

So when CenturyTel (CTL) and Qwest announced a $22 billion deal (including $11.8 billion of debt) to merge yesterday, we couldn’t just sit around and let it pass without some sort of commentary. We’ve listened to the hour-long conference call and we looked at the accompanying slideshow, both of which are peppered with the usual M&A buzzwords like synergy and transformational (we stopped counting the number of times synergy was used after we got to 10). There’s also a new (and pretty snazzy) website that provides even more information. And, as if that’s not enough, we counted 8 different filings made between the two companies just yesterday.

One of the slides that caught our interest was #14, which shows that while this deal is being billed as a merger of equals, all of the top managers are coming from CenturyTel. Ed Mueller, Qwest’s high-flying Chairman and CEO, will join the board, along with three other members of Qwest’s board. Perhaps that has something to do with Qwest’s stock performance since Mueller came on board in August 2007.

During the call, in response to a question from an analyst — one of the few who thankfully didn’t say congratulations — who asked why would Qwest do a deal now when they were believed to be turning things around, Mueller said he thought it was a really good deal and a really good time. Another analyst — from Goldman Sachs, who did say congratulations — asked CenturyTel CEO Glen Post III the same question, albeit from the other side: was Post worried that Qwest, which was viewed to be improving, might get away? While both CEOs stayed on-script related to the timing and whether there were any other interested parties, we couldn’t help but notice that at least two plaintiff firms have already announced plans to investigate the deal.

While the analysts asked lots of questions about the so-called synergies, one question we didn’t hear was about the hefty severance payments that Qwest executives are likely to receive. Indeed, a quick skim of the proxy that Qwest filed last month includes this pearl:

For Mr. Mueller the term “good reason” also includes a reduction in title, and for Mr. Euteneuer the term “good reason” also includes a reduction in title or a requirement that he report to any person other than our CEO or Board.

Given that clause and in light of slide #14 it seems that Mueller and Euteneuer, and probably a few other Qwest executives, stand to make some good money on the deal. Based on the proxy, which assumes a deal on Dec. 31 and a price of $4.21 for Qwest, Mueller stands to make $24.7 million on the deal and Euteneuer stands to receive $10.6 million. The other three named executives stand to receive $32.3 million. The real numbers will likely be significantly higher, given that the deal stock price works out to about $6.02 a share.

While we’ll still be on the look-out for the merger proxy, which should provide some updated information on those severance payments, it looks like we’ll soon have to hang up on Qwest. But it has been an interesting ride!

Image source: RedHouse Developments

Amazon customers are complaining that Fox has gummed up the Avatar DVDs with DRM, rendering them unplayable on many Blu-ray players in an effort to prevent piracy. That is, if you consider making a copy of a DVD you own as piracy.

Lee tipped us off to the problem, writing:

Bought Avatar Blu-ray today along with ten gazillian other people. Only problem is that the digital rights mgmt or copy protection seems to be causing errors on a large number of players (even with updated firmware). Comments are pilling up on the web (see amazon link below). Nice job Fox, keep law abiding cash paying customers from viewing their DVDs so you can keep a few people from ripping copies to their iPods for road trips….

Have you found the same problem?

Will not play on many Blu Ray players
[Amazon: Customer Discussions]

Oh, yes, indeedy. But not here.

The trade publication Burger Business is reporting that Burger King has begun test-marketing brunch at stores in Massachusetts and Florida. Flush with the success of its BK Breakfast Bowl (left), the fast food giant has decided to test a menu that skews markedly more upscale than its competition. New menu items include an scrambled egg ciabatta sandwich with cheese, tomato, ham and bacon, as well as a mimosa made with orange juice and Moët Champagne Sprite. But if you really want a Whopper for brunch (and what says brunch more than a Whopper?), you can get one of those, too. I know where I’m taking my wife for Mother’s Day brunch!

In other news:

• Ziba’s Wine Bar has opened in the old Solstice Cafe space on Boulevard in Grant Park. According to its Twitter feed, the restaurant is BYOB (or BYOW) until its liquor license goes through.
• Bobby and June’s — the breakfast mainstay in West Midtown — will close after more than 30 years in business. Owner …

A lot has been written on how the iPhone performs in Japan, the world’s most advanced mobile nation, but the general consensus in this country now is that it sells very well (even though both Apple and provider SoftBank Mobile refuse to break down Japan-specific sales numbers). It’s rumored that the number of iPhones sold in Japan has passed 3 million.

There are reasons for this success (super-low pricing, aggressive marketing, Apple’s pre-iPhone brand popularity in Japan, clever product positioning by SoftBank, etc. etc.), but we’re talking about a country in which basically every cell phone is a smartphone, a country where you’d be hard-pressed to find a handset without a digital TV tuner or e-wallet function, for example.

And that means that the 4.9% share the iPhone now commands in the entire Japanese cell phone market, as reported [JP] by a Japanese research insitute today, is more than impressive (Sharp, with 26.2% market share, is the number one).

The MM Research Institute also says that among those phones that have a non-Japanese OS (i.e. Android, Palm OS or Blackberry), the iPhone even boasts 72.2% market share (see graphic above). In this (relatively small) segment, HTC is ranked second (11.1%), Toshiba is third (6.8%) and Blackberry / Sony Ericsson are both ranked fourth (4.3%).

We reported about another smartphone market study from a Japanese source back in December. All statistical and other issues aside, both reports indicate that the iPhone seems to do much better than many people believed when it launched in the world’s No. 7 mobile market in 2008.

Via Asiajin