It's time for BlackBerry DevCon, the developer conference for RIM's BlackBerry platform. CEO Mike Lazaridis has taken the stage to open the conference and he's talking about some pretty impressive...

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RingShuffle for the iPhone offers a unique and interesting service. It can generate a temporary phone number good for seven days. Calls to this phone number are forwarded to a real phone number. Numbers can be deleted before the seven days is up. You can probably imagine a number of scenarios where RingShuffle's service would be useful.


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Calling Reddit "the best kept secret in social media" is no longer valid. The site is no longer a secret. Reddit is getting huge. Below, we have broken down the demographics of the top 4 countries that use Reddit based upon data that Reddit accumulated in a survey last month. Who in the world is [...]

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comScore's July traffic numbers are out and similar to June's findings, Facebook and Twitter both saw record traffic in terms of U.S. unique visitors in the month. In July, Facebook saw a whopping 162 million unique visitors, compared to 160.8 million unique vistors in June, and 157.2 million uniques in May.

Twitter also posted record traffic in its five year history; with 32.8 million unique U.S. visitors in July, up from 30.6 million unique visitors in June, and 27 million unique vistors in M [...]

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Facebook has responded to a privacy scare meme likely deriving from a recent HackerNews thread called "Facebook has your complete phonebook" both with an official post on Facebook's Wall and a personal message from a Facebook Messenger engineer Ben Gertzfield on HackerNews.

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The official Instagram blog posted some amazing numbers yesterday.150,000,000 PhotosHere are their numbers (-) and a few I calculated (*) to add to the list:- 150 million photos shared
* 301 days between Instagram's launch on October 6, 2010 and August 3, 2011 when the 150th million photo was shared
- 7 million people shared photos
* 21 photos, on average, shared by each person
- 15 photos shared every second
* 1,296,000 photos shared in a dayTechCrunch's MG Siegler note [...]

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It's generally accepted that, on the aggregate, Android device sales will far outpace iOS sales year after year. However, there's a dirty little secret about Android devices that most manufacturers are facing: the return rate on some Android devices is between 30 and 40 percent, in comparison to the iPhone 4's 1.7% return rate as of Antennagate in 2010.


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Guest post by Jeff Rohrs VP of Marketing Research and Education at ExactTarget. Jeff is also co-author of the ExactTarget/CoTweet SUBSCRIBERS, FANS & FOLLOWERS Research Series. Jay Baer has made a terrible mistake. He has gone on vacation and invited me to guest blog again. After my critically-acclaimed & Tony-award nominated post last year—“3 Reasons

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Guest post by Jeff Rohrs VP of Marketing Research and Education at ExactTarget. Jeff is also co-author of the ExactTarget/CoTweet SUBSCRIBERS, FANS & FOLLOWERS Research Series. Jay Baer has made a terrible mistake. He has gone on vacation and invited me to guest blog again. After my critically-acclaimed & Tony-award nominated post last year—“3 Reasons

Read More: 100% of Marketing Stats Are Made of Numbers

Guest post by Jeff Rohrs VP of Marketing Research and Education at ExactTarget. Jeff is also co-author of the ExactTarget/CoTweet SUBSCRIBERS, FANS & FOLLOWERS Research Series. Jay Baer has made a terrible mistake. He has gone on vacation and invited me to guest blog again. After my critically-acclaimed & Tony-award nominated post last year—“3 Reasons

Read More: 100% of Marketing Stats Are Made of Numbers