<p>Facebook's doing something with a phone - but what, precisely? Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP</p><p>A burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team</p><p>Windows Phone isn't really posing a threat to iOS or Android, which continue to dominate smartphone share is all markets, but it is starting to pull away from BlackBerry and Symbian when it comes to making a strong showing as a third place contender. In the US, Windows accounted for 4.1% of smartphone sales in the three-month period ending February 2013, up from 2.7% for the year-ago quarter. BlackBerry, by contrast, represented only 0.7% of smartphone sales in the US according to Kantar, down from 3.6% during the same time in 2012.</p><p>In the UK, BlackBerry slid from 16.8% of all smartphone sales in the three-month period ending in February last year, to just 5.1% of sales for the same span in 2013. That's a drop of 11.7 percentage points, during a period that included a full month of BB10 device sales. BlackBerry itself claimed 1 million devices shipped for its most recent fiscal quarter, which included BB10 launches in Canada and the UK, but when pressed about how much of that represented actual sales, execs hedged and noted that it was "sort of" closer to between two-thirds and three-quarters of that 1 million figure on its investor conference call.</p><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/apr/02/technology-links-newsbucket">Keep reading...</a></p>