It certainly pays to have friends in high places.

ZTE will easily recoup the $1B just by the fact that its share price will certainly jump up with this news alone. Essentially, ZTE will have suffered very little penalties after all the transgressions it has done against the US. This sets a precedent that many other foreign companies with good ties to their government will surely follow.

Good proc speeds with vanilla Android and very affordable pricing wasn't a bad model, they just didn't market it well. Frankly, not having it available for consumers to buy one easily in the vast majority of the world is just plain dumb.

Surprised not to see any mention of the term Slashdot effect on the history above.

Also, what about the list of brazen copycats that got *cough* "inspired" by /.?

"Ryan Gosling (K) wisely opts for a muted, brooding performance..."

Opts? Isn't that the only thing he can do?

Could be a red herring.

The same is true for major cities in Southeast Asia (Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Singapore, Bangkok), both in the outsourcing industry and consulting.

Was anyone actually expecting better profit margins because of the recall?

Don't expect Samsung's support of Tizen to be similar to how Google supports/develops Android and Nexus devices. As a former user of Bada (which Tizen supposedly evolved from), support for an OS by Samsung will be similar to how they support firmware for their phones and TV's at the moment: you will get one major update (two if you're lucky) and that's about it.

When the next Tizen release arrives, expect your device to be incompatible to it and, hence, not be supported anymore.

The Nexus 4 had inferior color rendering to the LG Optimus G, even if the screen and GPUs of both phones are exactly the same. You had to root the N4 and recalibrate the colors just to get close to the rendering quality of the G2.


I hope Kitkat gives users the capability to calibrate color settings in the same manner that LG flat panel TV's can be calibrated.

Anyway, this Bill, however bad it may be; would have helped put a stop to this.


At the cost of putting a stop to free speech. Under this law, every negative comment online (e.g. twitter, facebook) can be loosely interpreted as slander by an aggrieved party.

With a laser.

An even bigger invertebrate inhabits the deep. I hope they get to film the Colossal Squid next.

This assumes a blu-ray movie is 20GB, which it is not. From Wikipedia:

"Conventional (pre-BD-XL) Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs (50 GB) being the industry standard for feature-length video discs."

Hyperbole is good but should not be at the expense of the truth.

Korea owns the top end -with Pioneer in for honorable mention on the high end.



Pioneer ceased manufacturing its vaunted "Kuro" TV's in 2009. The company fully exited the tv business in March 2010.