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Andrew Wing Kosner of Forbes wrote an interesting column yesterday. In it, he delves into the mind of mobile designer and developer Josh Clark. More specifically, Kosner presents Clark -- with his recent conference presentation called "Seven Deadly Mobile Myths" -- as an opponent to usability expert Jakob Nielsen.

By far the coolest device I've seen all week, the Galileo iOS connects to your iPhone and allows you to control the field of view using your iPad or other iOS device for versatile photo/video capture and FaceTime conversations.

According to the product profile on Kickstarter.com, the Galileo is "capable of inifite 360° pan-and-tilt at speeds up to 200° per second in any orientation."

Watch the video below to see it in action:

Back in December, Amazon angered retailers with its Price Check App, which allows consumers to compare prices for items while in-store and buy them at a lower price online or via their mobile devices.

Over the past year, much has been made about the NFC-enabled mobile wallet concept championed by Google but very few people can say they've actually paid for something using this technology.

So it's almost like plucking numbers out of thin air to say that, 3 years from now, transactions via NFC will reach $74 billion worldwide -- yet that's exactly what Juniper Research has done, as reported by TechCruch.com's Leena Rao today.

-- iQmetrix Releases Sales Statistics from the Independent Wireless Retail Industry --

VANCOUVER, BC – Jan. 12, 2012 – iQmetrix, the leading provider of retail management software for the North American wireless industry, today released statistics on consumers’ mobile phone purchasing trends for December 2011.

iQmetrix sampled data from over 1,000 independent wireless retailers across North America reporting that Android phones comprised 36.8 percent of total phones sold, up from 30.5 percent over December 2010.