Report: BlackBerry Curve overtakes iPhone as most popular smartphone

Chalk it up to the fact that the Curve is available on the four biggest U.S. carriers, not to mention a two-for-one sale on Verizon Wireless. Also in the top five for the first quarter of 2009: The Storm and the T-Mobile G1.The NPD Group just released its U.S. smartphone sales numbers for Q1, and according to their numbers, RIM had BlackBerrys in three of the top five positions, and managed to topple the iPhone 3G from the top of the list. Despite its early launch woes, the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm appears to be selling strongly, coming in a No. 3...

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Ning: 1,000,000 Social Networks and Counting

Chances are that whether you’re aware of it or not, you probably belong to at least one Ning social network. Since the platform launched in October 2005, it’s seen explosive growth in the quantity and quality of networks created using their hosted social networking platform. Less than four years later, the do-it-yourself social network site with a $500 million valuation has reached another major milestone — 1,000,000 Ning networks. On their way to 1,000,000 social networks, Ning’s come along way from their early days, when they experimented with three distinct sites that let you build your own YouTube, Flickr, or MySpace. We’ve...

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