Week In Review 11W2009

The smartphones keep chipin’ away at Nokia market share. Not that it hurts a lot Nokia’s huge bottom line but it’s a preview of the future. Meanwhile, Symbian foundation will have something like 3 to 5 Symbian simultaneous active releases. Someone should really tell them that’s a bad idea.

Microsoft, proving again they missed the train, are shunning free apps by charging per app submission on their Marketplace.

The clever people at MIT figured out how to do a new kind of lithium-ion electrode that works kind like a capacitor with full changing in seconds instead of hours. This is only bad news for fuel cells.