The new features illustrate Samsung's drive to make its phones stand out from the crowd of Android smartphones.

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From a consumer stand point, an IoT will drive market fragmentation as organizations paint an ever more accurate picture of our world, customizing their products and services to every hyper-specific market segments.

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So we'll pass along these predictions from Shaw Wu, based on supposed deals between Apple and PortalPlayer (who currently supplies the chips for Apple's hard drive-based players, but stand to derive high revenues from new flash-based chip designs in Q3), that he expects a 2GB iPod mini with flash-based storage instead of an HDD by as early as the end of this year.

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Mr Legrain cites innovative, entrepreneurial and peripatetic Swedes and Indians to drive home his central thesis that both rich and emerging countries stand to gain from the latter's increasing economic dynamism.

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