1.12 billion mobile phones were shipped during 2007, with Nokia increasing it’s market share to 40% or 134 million units. Samsung was in 2nd place with 161.2 million units, and Motorola in 3rd at 159 million…and Apple with its iPhone sold about 4 million phones for a world market share of about 0.35%.
In view of [...]

So what’s up with 3D printing? …Mahalo Daily sent Veronica Belmont to Next Engine to find out.
Ms. Belmont discovers out that 3D scanned models are often sold to Second Life users for use in that game, but with most clients still being industrial in nature…think auto parts. Veronica positions 3D printing as a kind of [...]

The MacBook Air the way it should’a been designed…
“The innovative now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t port hatch flips down to reveal (and closes to hide) all the ports you really need: 3 USB 2.0 ports, 5 FireWire ports, Floppy drive, and iPod Shuffle in your MacBook. Even the MagSafe power connection has been reconsidered and slimmed to fit [...]

In case you’ve ever pondered just how to win an Oscar, scholarly help is available. Some dedicated individuals have expanded the corpus of human knowledge by applying a statistical fine-tooth-comb to 171,539 performances by 39,518 actors in 19,351 films that produced a total of 1,394 Oscar nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and [...]

Vacuum brewed coffee has played second or 3rd fiddle to more popular techniques …like drip, percolate, French press, espresso and even Turkish and more recently pod-based coffee makers… for quite some time. The relative unpopularity of vacpot or siphon-brewed coffee, as it’s also called, is due to the more extensive cleanup effort, even though some [...]

According to a study by the Technology Policy and Assessment Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology, China’s Technological Standing as estimated by Georgia Tech has increased from 22.5 in 1996 to 82.8 in 2007, the #1 position. By comparison the US peaked at 95.4 in 1999; it is now down to 76.1.
Good news for [...]

Here’s another review of Steve Jobs himself, as opposed to a review of 1 of his products…
Business Week Magazine had a look at one of Steve’s keynote addresses and liked what they heard. They were kind enough to distill their analysis & resulting advice (on how to be more like Steve when making a presentation, [...]

Midem is described as the world’s largest music industry trade show, and runs this year in Cannes, January 27-31…think of it as a rave with powerpoint slides.
Much on the minds of the partyers, er attendees at Midem 2008, will no doubt be the just-released 2008 Digital Music Report from IFPI, which says that while digital [...]

Motor Trend Magazine took a spin in a prototype of the soon-to-be-available 2008 Tesla Roadster, that electric sports car that’s been in pre-production since before 2006. In a factual and surprisingly accolade-free article, the driver’s highpoints were that the Roadster is “unbelievably efficient”, and has an acceleration described as “bizarre”.
The remainder of the article talks [...]

Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal reviews the new Apple MacBook Air, which (.again.) is officially described as the World’s Thinnest Notebook. Walt describes the MacBook Air as pleasing and surprising, likes the screen & full-size keyboard but deducts points for: no removable battery, no optical drive, no Ethernet jack etc. Generally he says [...]