The comments so far have made this out to not be such a big deal, people should just use other browsers. I see it differently. The majority of smartphone users now aren't just the tech savy, it is now mostly ordinary users too. When considering 500MB is the usual data cap this is a problem, with the amount of data slurped up by the likes of Facebook, this must push useage up pretty high if loading a wikipedia page is taking over 2MB of data. Once your over your cap, the costs sky rocket. This is before you even thinking about the difference in loading time of 3G from the need to pull 10 times as much data.

Unfortunately with the situation we have on android, with handset developers and carriers both being reluctant to push updates, don't expect this to be fixed any time soon.

"Much of the current litigation in the so called 'smartphone patent wars' could be avoided if companies were willing to recognize the value of others’ creations in a way that is fair." Most of the Android licensing deals have been based around FAT32, which has been around since Win95. What sort of credible value of that technology remains in 2013? Absolutely none.

Depends how you look at it. When I bought my house it was a new housing estate in the UK, Scotland to be precise. The house was valued at £225,000 when I bought it 4 years ago. There is 15% of the mortgage left to pay. Do you want my deeds for 15% of the house value? My real point was, Garnet talk shit.

GARTNER? C'mon, these predictions get richer ever year. I'm not a fanboy of either, I have an iPad and Win8 PC. I dislike both companies, if anything. How many of the analyst prediction articles on Slashdot have came true? I'd bet my mortgage the percentage is small.

Sometimes I feel like these patent cases have more in common with a TV drama than a court of law. We already know there is going to be another trial anyway rending all this completely moot. No doubt there will be many more twists and turns to come after that. What makes it even more ridiculous is that the $1B in the first place simply amounted to a small rebate for the money Apple give Samsung to make chips for them.

And the winners are: the lawyers.

Well, if you read the mail conversation you'll know the majority of developers came out in agreeance with Linus and his views.on the matter. He has said he's tried being nicer, it just isn't him though. He is usual right though and when wrong accepts it. He is an extremely good maintainer regardless of peoples opinions on him.

We seem not to complain that Apple don't grant us the same benefit. I've certainly not seem an article on here about the subject. Anybody who cares enough about such a thing shall know before hand they won't be able to change the operating system on a Surface or iPad. Deal with it and move on. In an idea world we would get our way, but that's the same thinking which propels Linux as the desktop of the year..

I realise I should have used the definition from both words from the same place, the definitions however are pretty similar no matter where you look.

Definition of the word being, "A person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims."

And the definition of terrorism. "Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes."

The FBI should consider updating their list of "designated terrorist groups".

Isn't this supposed to be dead easy?

If they can get away with charging the extra, they are hardly going to reduce their profit margins now.

Yes, it's generally in the nature of these companies to spend unneeded money. They hire people who's exact job is to make data centers' as efficient as possible. Even to the extent Facebook and others are open sourcing their information to try and get others involved to improve data center design. I say generally as I'm sure most seen the story on here recently over Microsoft wasting energy to meet a contract target, that however is a totally different kettle of fish.

The wall is a little steep, I'm sure you can all make it though. The grass is greener on the other side, honest.

You surely can't be that naive and must be trolling. GSM masts are critical pieces of infrastructure in mobile telecoms and it's in every stakeholders that they are secure and reliable. It's security researchers jobs to find these holes, if they were so poorly designed we'd see stories like this every day.