A report issued on the flash RAM market indicates that Apple is inhaling supplies of memory components in preparation for the next generation iPhone, causing part shortages and raising the spot price for memory.

The iPhone maker has bought out Samsung's entire available supply, putting the world's largest producer of flash memory on allocation until April 2009, according to the report. Samsung makes just over 40% of the world's NAND Flash RAM.

Apple has historically put more RAM capacity in its iPhone than other smartphone vendors. The original model offered 4 or 8GB at a time when virtually no other smartphones gave users more than 128MB, then the typical high-end limit for many mobile operating systems.

Even so, Apple found that its customers were only buying the 8GB model, resulting in a quick drop of the 4GB version and the introduction of a new 16GB iPhone within a few months. Apple also packs 32GB into the high end iPod touch.

Apple's emphasis on iTunes-integrated music and videos for the iPhone, including full length movie playback, also resulted in a device equipped to store lots of mobile applications with a level of sophistication well above that of most smartphones. Other phone manufacturers are now following Apple's lead in packing phones with multiple gigabytes of flash storage.

Finding enough flash RAM supply may become more difficult as Apple continues to eats up an increasing volume of the world's supply of memory parts, even as the global economy cools and production is cut back.

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Just 12 percent of visitors to “large” websites often look at ads, and ABC1s (ie. the demographic many ads target) are less likely than C2DEs to pay attention. But social networks are proving better ad platforms than general sites - a lower number, 26 percent, of users shun ads there, though 36 percent say they rarely pay attention. In contrast to all this, specialist sites are far more effective than general-interest sites for ad delivery, with 73 percent of users saying they pay attention to ads there.

The study says 22 percent of users only go to niche, sector-specific destinations, while only two percent visit the mainstream sites - “consumers are deserting mass media portals”.

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We just need to hear these cuts. We don't have a piracy problem so much as an EXPOSURE problem. We don't know what to listen to. It's like going into a record store in an era before radio. All the discs are there, are you gonna play them all to find out what's good? No, you need guidance.

Too often the shoppers in indie stores need no advice. They just need someone to discuss their addiction with. The shoppers at the big box need help, but the workers there are clueless. Maybe the indie stores and the big boxes can switch employees?

Meanwhile, everybody's online, where everything's available and everybody's overwhelmed.

I love discovering new music. One of life's great pleasures. I rely on radio, both Sirius/XM and Slacker. I'd like a site that winnows the good from the bad, that isn't in bed with the labels, that isn't trying to be hipper than thou. I don't know how you're satiated with your iPod. It only plays what you already know!

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Last fall, Mark Donohue sold his controlling interest in Expansion Capital Partners and resigned as managing partner and chairman to teach at his alma mater, Babson College. He now teaches cleantech entrepreneurship, and is developing a cleantech curriculum that includes every facet of the business, including public policy.

I recently talked with Donohue about what the federal government might do to stimulate the green economy.

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