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Related to the last 2 posts we wrote and that you can read below, isn’t it interesting when things start to get connected?

Nokia admitted to be seriously considering joining the notebook market. Due to digital convergence, I’d bet that they’ll move from smartphones to netbooks, but then again this is just an exercise of imagination.

Asus, famous for computer parts, notebooks and netbooks, launched its own smartphone. And so did Acer.

Microsoft declared yesterday that the deal with Universal is closed, so you can now download movies from Xbox Live.

The App Store’s idea of selling music streaming has already a follower. Netflix is about to offer its clients video streaming. Already part of a 15-dollar subscription, the service should turn into a single option with cheaper prices.

Even with the competition of iPhone, which sold over 25 thousand units in the opening day in Saudi Arabia, Sony must have checked the research before us: UK’s Amazon was elected the preferred online store for music, movies and games.

It was out earlier this week on App Store another Brazilian app. Seguro Auto, developed for Bradesco Seguros by FingerTips, brings some features that are quite nice: a gas station, parking lot and shop locator, video tips for a cheaper and safer traffic, and, of course, the customer care phone numbers for the insurance clients.

The best of it all? It’s free and can be downloaded here.

After great services for those with a jailbroken iPhone, OrbLive finally came to terms with Apple, became an official app and is now available on iTunes, for the price of 10 bucks.

For those of you who never heard of it, OrbLive is a soft that turns your pc into a audio/video/tv multimedia broadcasting machine, for sharing with friends or other devices such as notebooks and cell phones. The company says there shall be a Mac and Linux version soon.

On one hand, there are people projecting that mobile marketing will increase from the 1-billion-dollar industry this year to 11 billion dollars in 2011, saying as well that investments in this kind of media shall be heavier than in internet, since more people have cell phones than computers. Will it?

On the other hand, Steve Wozniak, the guy that helped founding Apple, said that iPod’s days are coming to an end, as it happened to the walkman, as they will to be so cheap and sold and so many places that it will no longer be attractive.

To top that, he criticized the very own iPhone, due to the device’s proprietary language, saying that ‘companies are very proprietary and lock their products down’ (that we already knew), betting his chips on Google’s Android. Ouch, Steve. Jobs.

Taken from here and here.