This is truly an illustration of a recent joke where each new iPhone feature raises the same reaction - damn, they did not have it before !?

Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System (ETWS) has been available for years...

Sounds like a rant from many laid off employees. Not to mention that iPhone battery life is actually pretty well, so if we continue their line of thought that Apple got it right, well... looks like RIM got it right too.

I work a lot with Chinese and often it is next to impossible to remember correctly one peer's name without the business card. Putting just the name on the card is cool, but again will not work in this case - phonetic Chinese transcription (ynyì) can be ambiguous, so you need some additional information.

Cards with QR codes are really useful, I cannot understand why they are not widely used.

Not everybody needs a smartphone. This Steve's piece of wisdom is not applicable to every market. Nokia was never very popular in US, so for many readers this may seem natural, but there is much more to Nokai than what can be seen from the other side of the Atlantic. For starters - they've got brand, huge number of units in the field, IPR and standardization activities and ties with infrastructure vendor NSN - none of which Apple has.

Do I really have to remind you that correlation does not mean causation ? It can be the other way around - the more incidents are reported the more media attention gets drawn to this issue.

This is not an error, this is called a "submarine patent" were one intentionally writes an abstract which different from the claims. As a typical patent search returns hundreds of patents, reading the whole patent is not feasible, so people either don't bother with patent search at all or read just the abstracts. Having abstract different from the claims makes the patent "invisible", i.e. impossible to find - hence the "submarine" term.

Many cellular operators deploy DPI as we speak. Welcome to reality, my friend.

I cannot really compare ETWS/PWS with simple messaging. While text message can be easily delayed by a few hours because of network load or other issues (and massive text messaging will result in a network load), ETWS/PWS was designed in such a way that the network will be able to deliver warning messages to all relevant subscribers reliably, efficiently and in timely manner.

This system is called ETWS (Earthquake Tsunami Warning System in Release-8 networks, i.e. LTE and PWS in Release-9. It is being pushed mainly by Japanese cellular operators (NTT DoCoMo, etc) and is probably used already in Japan.

No news here. LTE was never meant to be a 4G service. LTE-advanced was, as well as the next generation of WiMAX, now called WirelessMAN-Advanced, both of which did make it into IMT-advanced and will be official 4G networks.

You forgot some small and insignificant detail - US & Canada make an effort to prevent this, as opposed to Iraqi and Afghan governments that sponsored the terrorists.

And BTW - what you just described happed a lot in the past and will happen again. This is called foreign policy. This is normal!

I find it amusing that otherwise rational Slashdot crowd does not see a logical fault in accusing the US army and the government for the tortures and crimes that Iraqi government did.

Settlers have guns at most, not nuclear missiles. Every country has extremists, but not every country is ruled by extremists.

Home Node B devices are not repeaters. They will actually increase the available bandwidth for large number of users as they will be able to transmit with higher modulation on shorter distance, i.e. they will be more spectrum efficient.