What Google Knew About the Asteroid Striking Russia

Google's Doodle might be for Fun  and at times its observing the pioneer of Science and Technology, not to mention Holidays and Events. However in a bizarre event,  the Google Doodle has managed to create a political storm  as it found out recently, during the Asteroid striking Russia last week .However Google  had removed its Doodle of Asteroid hitting the Earth   ( this was done before the actual event of Asteroid striking the Earth However Google says this was just a Holiday Fun 

The doodle was very simple. The second G in "Google" came to life on noticing a disturbance; leaped in shock; then hopped aside just in time to avoid the incoming Asteroid 2012 DA14, which plunged through the hole left by the fleeing letter. Then the G, with danger past, hopped back into place.

However that was short lived as an  innocuous asteroid struck Russia and injured many of them. Its no secret that Google Nerds leaning artists thought it might be fun to create a little something that cheered the fact that Asteroid 2012 DA14 wasn't going to strike  Earth and create havoc.

Google explained to ABC News: "Out of respect for those injured in the extraordinary meteor shower in Russia earlier today, we have removed today's doodle from the Google home page." (ABC also reported that many scientists believed the Russian meteorite was not a fragment of Asteroid 2012 DA14 and that the events were not related.)

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5 Years of Smartphone Adoption: Vendor Share 2007 to 2012

source : Asymco.

In 2007 the Global Mobile Markets had started  to mature as form and feature phones had mass usage and  smartphone adoption  at that time  was lead by Industry leader Nokia.Steve Jobs launched the  iPhone on June 3, 2007, History was just about to begin.

2008 saw the market for smartphones growing as Nokia continued their market leadership with RIM,HTC and Apple were trailing by a comfortable margin.Apple's iphone had just made history in 2008 as consumer flocked to get the latest "piece of gadget"
 

The 2009 saw the market for Smartphone starting to explode with RIM and Apple consolidating  their places to move closer to Nokia. Nokia continued to maintain their lead, but  failed to understand the coming " Technology distruption"as it continued to manufacture  feature phones while the markets were turning mature.

2010 saw the Smartphone revolution turning into a mass adoption as  new generation of smartphones were lapped up in the marketplace, as newer technology and Smartphone OS like Android  and iOS created a huge changed the markets forever

Samsung and Apple led the Smartphone Battle as Samsung's Galaxy S made history, while the web was inundated with  speculation on iPhone 5  launch rumors .As of December ,2011 Apple  and Samsung  together formed 63% of Smartphone market, Nokia 's no 1 position in Mobile sales which it maintained till 2008, was history while RIM managed to do everything . to sink themselves from one disaster to another.

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