Week In Review 49W2008
On mobile, Nokia unleashed the top of line N97 N-slider-qwerty-touchphone which was promptly reviewed. Shortly after we learned Apple is kicking Nokia butt stealing a bit over 10% of smartphone market share. Lets see if the Tube can take it back or if the $99 WalmartPhone comes true.
The Amazon MP3 store has finally landed on amazon.co.uk. Continental europe goes medieval on the cheap pound. On unrelated DRM news, Spore is awarded the most pirated game of 2008. Way to go annoying your paying customers with crappy DRM guys!
More mobile news, Android is going Asiaside with the Kogan Agora.
After nearly being banned by EU the three strikes French law is back on the table. How ? Sarkozy used is position has head of the Council to remove the ban from the Telecom Package. And on censorship(!?) some UK ISPs are blocking Wikipedia. Apparently it works by sending their customer’s traffic to a third party for inspection in probable disrespect for privacy laws and telecom traffic tampering laws.
