Gary Moore Gone....

Gary Moore, notable and influential guitarist(also one of my biggest heroes) has passed away in the early hours on the 6th December 2011 while on holiday in Estepona, Spain as revealed by his official website http://www.gary-moore.com/.

Known as a blues-rock guitarist and singer, he was best known by his hit single "Still Got The Blues" in 1990. To those more familiar with his work, he was a member of Thin Lizzy of "The Kids Are Back In Town" fame. 

Also known to have experimented with all sorts of genres including hard rock, pop and even modern dance, it was ultimately the blues that worked best for him.

He was also almost always seen with a 59' Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar. Gibson even issued a Gary Moore Signature guitar in 2000. 

He has collaborated with a broad range of artists including B.B. King, George Harrison and Ozzy Osbourne to name a few.

Incidentally, I was listening to "Empty Rooms" this afternoon and boy, does the room feel empty without him...

R.I.P 

Gary Moore

1952-2011 

Google Leads Smartphone Platform

Canalys, the high-tech expert analyst, has ranked Google's Android as the top smartphone platform leapfrogging Nokia's Symbian in their final Q4 2010 global country-level smartphone market data. With 33.3 million Android-based devices shipped out, Nokia trailed by a slim 31 million devices worldwide although they still take the lead as the top smartphone vendor with 28% market share.

Apple took third with 16.2 million iPhones shipped trailed by RIM at 14.6 million. Microsoft was last with 3.1 million but to be fair, they started pretty late to be a real competitor in 2010.

For 2011 though it's anybody's guess as the market goes into overdrive with Android's Honeycomb just around the corner, iOS 5 coming soon, Windows Phone 7 upgrade rumoured in February.