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If you regularly read technology publications on the web, then you’re familiar with the quarterly battle that rages between iPhone fans and the Android army.

These happen when the latest sets of sales figures are released and proclaim which mobile platform is currently at the top of the heap.

Recently Google’s mobile OS has been handed the crown, having finally overtaken iOS as the dominant platform in the smartphone category.

There is no arguing that the file-sharing landscape changed for good when the RIAA managed to shut LimeWire down October last year.

From one day to another, the most widely known file-sharing application ceased to exist.

At the time we doubted that LimeWire’s demise would have much of an impact on the volume of music piracy, but according to research from the NPD Group we were wrong.

ServerWatch: "The latest smartphone sales figures from NPD Group show Google's Linux-based Android OS blowing the iPhone and Windows Mobile clean out of the water."

The US Chamber of Commerce (which many people mistakenly think is a government organization -- it's not) has a long history of getting the facts wrong about intellectual property.

The folks at the Chamber of Commerce have one basic mission, which is to protect the big businesses that fund it.

And what better way to do that then to have the government help give them monopoly rights and then enforce those rights.

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The NPD Group has some figures now from the Windows 7 launch, and are