No dumbass we're not. Subscription services now HAVE to offer in app purchase as well as web store purchases at the same price. There is no reason to force them to be slower when using a web store.

I think we often hear the worst case scenarios anecdotally. None of my friends that use groupons would do that either. I still doubt groupon is a big plus for most businesses or worth a lot of money. It is an easy business to break into.

Egypt is somewhat progressive for a muslim state, but that's not saying much. That said, make sure you don't confuse America friendly with progressive. The two do not go hand in hand, at least in the muslim world.

That said, Egypt has a decent sized Christian minority (15%) that I think does OK which again is rare for a muslim state

I would like to second this opinion. I have a work provided box running Ubuntu 10.04 and personal imac. I am not bring in viruses or ruining the corporate network. Leave me alone and let me work. I don't want to run the work XP image with McAfee and 1 GB RAM. Its worthless. I hope my next job also affords me some flexibility.

Very well said. Thanks for posting.

My thoughts exactly. To be honest, until the recent update flickr was at risk of losing the leadership as well. It hadn't been updated in 3 years, but now it has all ajaxy goodness. All the non-techie people I know that like photography still prefer flickr.

No you're wrong. For a primarily mouse and keyboard (primarily) gamer like me, the "precise control of a d-pad" is inadequate. Yet the vast majority of people game with a Dpads and are happy. Games for DPads are designed for auto-aim and loose control. Similar will happen with the move to touch screen games. Sure there will be dpad games for the hard core, but the majority will play touchscreen games on the go.

At the end of the day the cheap and fun aspect of mobile games like Angry Birds and PvZ will win people over.

Hasn't Eric Schmidt done the same at Google?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/telecom/security/how-stuxnet-is-rewriting-the-cyberterrorism-playbook has a good overview published a month ago.

He is talking about the trade (current account) deficit when talking about the indebtedness to china. In that context, he is generally correct. In the fact that the federal deficit is partially funded by china, you are largely correct. Of course both yours and his numbers are more a reflection of the economic climate that Obama inherited rather than anything particular done by the administration.

No one can sell it away like Wideanus did for MySQL?

Props to you for working on Xen. I REALLY liked Xen and used it in a production system based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Ubuntu has moved to kvm as well and the documentation for virtualization is full of kvm based tools. Makes it hard to continue using Xen on 10.04, so I have made the painful switch to kvm (I am virtualizing Linux at home for learning & fun). One thing that was easy on Xen was working with LVM partitions and extending and mounting LVM partitions (in the guests). I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this in kvm (yet). Anyway, I'm keeping an eye on Xen and will check out the documentation again.

Bitrate for Netflix (PS3) was 5 Mbps. Will have to check now but I doubt they'll go much over 5-8 Mbps. So it will be worse than satellite or cable which are honestly horrible. Any action scene gets horribly pixellated on my comcast HD box. I have a 720p 32" TV and its easily noticeable.

Err is that why other phones are in the graphs? For a more detailed and IMO better review this page on Anandtechhas wifi only comparison including the iphone 3gs and 4.