VISA Europe is a membership association owned entirely by its membership (which are European Banks, including Swedish banks)

FWIW, they are not the same company as VISA, Inc. which operates in the US. The US division was sold off in an IPO years ago

Yes, but this is almost certainly just a shot at Amazon (and a preemptive shot at Samsung). It doesn't do anything to address the real fragmentation problem: hardware and other issues causing manufacturers to abandon OS updates a few months after launching phones

So your preferred solution is one where you can choose between multiple retailers but those retailers don't actually bother to compete with each other on price or content. That's not much better than an Amazon monopoly. By the way, the DOJ complaint details why your claims of predatory pricing by Amazon are largely unfounded

They actually made the agreement when Itanium was already dying (2010). It was (a vague) part of the settlement when HP sued them for hiring their former CEO

At least, that is what I got when I RTFA

Well, it isn't for Bachelor degrees. It specifically says it is for "technical and vocational certifications or associate's degrees"

It's still alive on Xbox. It drives all of the new media applications

That's an issue between the customer and the provider which owns the server (ECN), not the FBI. If ECN wasn't notified by the FBI that would be a separate issue, but that hasn't been claimed.

Sure, if you want to just make shit up and blindly ignore the facts. Amazon has consistently lobbied for a federal internet sales tax.

Proving the value of anecdotal evidence, I have had the exact opposite experience. I take flights weekly, and I have not been on a flight without a few tablet users in a long time.

As a tablet owner myself, I find I rarely take the effort to drag it out of my bag when I can just reach for my phone.

Motorola's Webtop, which is being replaced here, was originally based on Ubuntu in the first place. While this iteration for the Atrix's successor may be more full-featured, the concept is identical. All of the features mentioned in the summary are already present.

The Motorola Atrix was launched last year, and this was supported out of the box. It was the major selling point of the phone

I did actually RTFA and my conclusion from the comments attributed to the police is that they are either full of shit or they just read some forum posts. Hacking never would have entered my mind.

For instance, can CDMA2k handle data and voice at the same time?

Yes, and it has been supported on Verizon for several months on new phones (SVDO).

Well it is a software update. I don't know about Ford, which is why I said I assume other manufacturers do it, but with Audi the map DVDs included firmware updates with feature changes. How is that not a "software update"?

In fact, I'm pretty sure Ford has issues updates for Sync in the past too.

With it, Ford breaks the model in which the technology in a car essentially stayed unchanged from assembly line to junk yard'

This is nonsense. Audi, and I assume most manufacturers, have been issuing software updates on their map DVDs for years.

This is without even getting into the programmable nature of modern engines.