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Microsoft is offering the feds their very own version of Office 365, the suite of online office tools the software giant introduced last year.

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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Facebook’s (FB) first couple of weeks as a public company, most observers agree, now appears to have been an unmitigated disaster. There was the first-day NASDAQ (IXIC) trading scandal, in which many people who bought Facebook stock didn’t know whether or not they owned it. There was a selective [...]

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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! On Tuesday, global stocks rallied as investors chose to focus on the ‘good news’ coming out of Greece and ignore the very bad news coming out of Spain. (See: Stocks Rise Even as Spain Starts to Follow the Greek Script) Wednesday was a completely different story: Stocks tumbled as [...]

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Yes, Microsoft will soon embrace Linux on its Windows Azure cloud, reaching another milestone in its efforts to reinvent itself as a friend of open source software.

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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! The Facebook (FB) fiasco and Europe’s unraveling have taken some of the heat of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan (JPM) for its big trading loss…but not all of it. Following a long weekend of reports about flaws with JPMorgan’s risk management committee, Reuters reported Tuesday the bank has sold about [...]

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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Gold prices have tumbled 20 percent from their August 2011 record highs above $1,900 an ounce. The precious metal closed down more than 1% Tuesday to $1,548.70 after rating agency Egan-Jones downgraded Spanish debt and investors flocked from the Eurozone credit crisis to U.S. Treasuries, pushing up the U.S. [...]

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When I bought my Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone before Christmas my biggest worry was that it was much bigger than my iPhone and it wouldn’t fit comfortably in my pocket. That hasn’t turned out to be a problem and the larger screen size has turned out to be the main reason why I love this phone. I read a lot of books and I can now do exclusively via the Kindle app on my phone. Even when I’m at home and my actual Kindle is nearby I still read on my phone. The reading experience is fine and it is easier to make notes and highlights. In contrast I found reading on my iPhone a little annoying because the screen wasn’t big enough.

I’m not the only one who likes big screens and this morning GigaOM published a piece suggesting we’ll all want a big screen phone soon. In their mind the main driver is mobile video.

Device manufacturers are stepping up to provide big screen devices too. LG announced a 5-inch full HD device last week and Samsung’s new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy SIII also has a 4.8inch screen.

All of this makes me wonder how big the screen will be on the next iPhone. As GigaOM points out a larger screen improves the content consumption experience, and as we know, user experience is everything to Apple. Big phones aren’t for everyone however which will leave Apple with a dilemma. Maybe they will break with tradition and ship two versions of the iPhone with different screen sizes. I would strongly consider switching back to Apple if they offer me a big screen device. Otherwise I will stay with Android.

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