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Tweet Trying to count who sold the most smartphones is a difficult business. That’s mostly due to Samsung’s decision to stop releasing unit sales figures for its smartphone sales. The company has taken to releasing sales growth percentages, and market research firms are basing projections of how many phones Samsung shipped last quarter and all of last year on these percentages. On Friday, IHS iSuppli is the latest to weigh in….

Tweet People claim that privacy is important, yet they give away all of their details for free. In today’s world, do we have any chance of protecting ourselves or is the chance for personal privacy dead? Read more… Neowin.net

Tweet No one can doubt the sheer awesomeness packaged in Apple’s recent quarterly performance. However, for me the real story is the company’s iCloud and CEO Tim Cook’s assertion that with 85 million sign-ups in three months, Apple is only getting started with iCloud. “It’s not just a product, it’s a strategy for the next decade,” Cook declared. The recent elevation of Eddy Cue to SVP of Internet Services and…

Tweet In a strange twist, some lawmakers in Poland donned Guy Fawkes-styles masks, the same that have been used by Anonymous members, to protest the country’s signing of ACTA. Read more… Neowin.net

Tweet Jon Rubinstein, the man who helped oversee Palm’s move to a new webOS operating system and later sold the company to Hewlett-Packard, has quietly exited the company. It’s an unsurprising move, but one that further signals the end of the Palm era at HP. The departure, first reported by AllThingsD, was expected, considering HP’s decision to open source webOS and get out of the mobile hardware market. The writing was…