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  • Nielsen Color Map of Smartphone Use

    Scott Moritz of The Street shares this graphic visualization of the relative use of smartphones and mobile operating systems: Google must be happy at what this reveals. But Moritz is more surprised by Microsoft's share. But he says Microsoft execs should not read too much into a 10% share. Since this isn't a survey of phones sold in the past three months -- it's merely a tally of where things stand overall -- Microsoft's sizeable chunk of the market is misleading. The Microsoft category is a mix of old Windows Mobile and new Windows Phone 7 devices. In other words, that 10% level is very much at risk of coming down if new Windows 7 phones can't offset the decline of Windows Mobile users. Read the full article here .

  • The Street Poll on the Impact of Dubai Crisis

    The United Arab Emirates has "pledge[d] to lend money to banks operating in Dubai ," according to the New York Times , in an effort to prevent big disruptions on markets around the world after Dubai's announcement on Friday that the once-high-flying emirate needs to "reschedule" debt payments. The Street 's Eric Rosenbaum is now polling readers, asking who will be hit the hardest by the Dubai "sand trap," and he writes that the impact could be widespread: Big bank lenders to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, including the Royal Bank of Scotland ( RBS Quote ) , HSBC ( HSBC Quote ) and Standard Chartered were throttled, as was the entire banking sector in the broad sell-off. However, the implications from the Dubai sand-trap could spread across many players, sectors and slices of the economy, and it's still anyone's guess as to the true significance of the debt crisis. There is already talk that the problems in Dubai could serve as an emerging-markets contagion, harkening back to Argentina in 2000 and Russia in the 1990s. Read the article and participate in the poll here .