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Software
1:51AM John Herrman | Windows 7 rolls past Snow Leopard in just a week, almost everyone still runs XP, and Vista, which didn’t even crack one-third of its predecessor’s install base, is doomed to be forgotten. This is the world outside Gizmodo, people. [Ars]
Reality Check
1:51AM John Herrman | Windows 7 rolls past Snow Leopard in just a week, almost everyone still runs XP, and Vista, which didn’t even crack one-third of its predecessor’s install base, is doomed to be forgotten. This is the world outside Gizmodo, people. [Ars] 
Software
iPhone Ebooks: The New Fart Apps
Random Stuff
Only 3% Of Americans Think It Should Be Legal To Text And Drive
12:47AM Matt Buchanan | I didn’t think 97 per cent of Americans were in agreement about anything, but apparently they are about texting while driving: They think it should be illegal. A mere 3 per cent don’t care, or didn’t answer cause they were busy texting. More »
Software
Microsoft’s Favourite Windows 7 Statistic
2:00AM Matt Buchanan | Sure, 91 per cent of release candidate testers surveyed said they’d recommend Windows 7 to friends and family. But, undoubtedly, Microsoft’s favourite statistic is that 80 per cent of Mac users in the survey said they’d recommend Windows 7 to friends and family too. More »
Business
AT&T Sells More iPhones Than Ever Before
11:10PM Mark Wilson | AT&T’s quarterly earnings are out, and we have a crazy stat for you: Of 4.3 million new phones activated by AT&T last quarter, 3.2 million were iPhones — that’s 74 per cent. More »
Phones
Graphs Prove iPhone To Be Most Successful Gadget Ever (Sort Of)
1:00PM Dan Nosowitz | These charts, from the Web 2.0 Summit, show the iPhone’s growth in both data usage and sheer sales compared to other blockbuster gadget releases — and (not without caveats, natch), it blows most of them out of the water. More »
Business
Acer Leapfrogs Dell To #2 Globally, But Dell And HP Still Rule The US
12:59AM Danny Allen | Acer rightly cops a lot of stick about build quality, but as predicted, they’ve passed Dell to second spot in worldwide sales. Separate research from Gartner and IDC also ranks Acer third in the US, ahead of Apple in fourth place. More »
Online
Google Is 6% Of All Internet Traffic
12:04AM Matt Buchanan | Anybody shocked that Google, the single largest source of internet traffic worldwide, account for 6% of it? It’s also kind of remarkable in the context that basically 30 large companies, like Microsoft and Facebook, account for 30% of the total. [NYT/ReadWriteWeb]
Computers
Whoa, Best Buy Sells 30% Of The Computers In The US
1:41AM Matt Buchanan | At a Nokia event announcing the surprisingly decent pricing for the Booklet 3G, Best Buy’s CMO said that Best Buy currently sells “30 percent of the computers in the US”. More »
Phones
