Considering that ActiveSync is already the number one mail solution in Nokia (E-series) devices and they have for a long time included office viewers, I don't really thinks this is anything that major. Nokia recognises that Office & Exchange are a necessity for their business customers and want to support that. Microsoft on the other hand would bring Office to Android if that would further their Office-business. If anything, Nokia is trying to get advantage over iPhone as a corporate phone.

The funny part is that the "why does pepsi suck" in Bing gives a result "Why Windows Vista sucks".. The only point is that if you want to ask a semantic question (and not just find specific terms), you really need to use the parentheses. That's all folks, move along...

Except that putting that same query to Google will give this result in the first page:

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/why-are-macs-so-expensive--609128

The point of the comment was that AT THE TIME there were no arguments for or against the article, but the article was still tagged as astroturf. If people had actually read the article and thought it to be a non-review, they'd surely point that out. Instead they just tag it with their preconception, i.e. positive Win7 review is astroturfing, Macs have Apple tax, DRM is defective by design, etc.

And TFA is not void of negative points:
- "Do note that some users have claimed to have limited success running the Windows 7 beta with less than 1GB of RAM, but that's not recommended."
- "One annoying change is that Bluetooth driver support no longer comes baked into the operating system. If you need a Bluetooth driver, you'll either need the installation disc on hand or you'll have to go and download it."
- "The search field, however, is available by default only in the Start menu and in Windows Explorer and cannot be easily added to the taskbar."
- "The hardware sometimes misread some of the multitouch gestures, occasionally confusing rotating an image, for example, with zooming in or out of the image."
- "[XP mode] is not easy to set up once you've downloaded the XP Mode installer. You'll need to double-check that you have the right hardware, and can get the right software. Hardware Virtualization Technology, also known as AMD-V, Vanderpool or VT-d, must be supported for it to work. Motherboards older than two years probably won't work, and even if you do have a newer one you might have to go into your BIOS and activate Hardware Virtualization."
- "Microsoft has tweaked the [UAC] so that it's less intrusive, but it's not clear whether that means you're actually more or less secure than you were in Vista."
- "Windows 7 feels faster than Windows XP and Vista, but it turns out that's not always the case -- sometimes, it's the slowest of the three operating systems."
- "It was slower than XP and Vista, however, for both booting up cold by a little more than 1 second, and slower than either of its predecessors in its Microsoft Office performance."

Hmph.. No comments that even remotely imply having RTFA'd, but sure enough there's an "astroturfing"-tag. Classy..

...so Mac is the only potentially exploitable environment? It doesn't actually say that, but recommending mitigation through coding around the problem sure sounds like it.

This tired argument of comparing original XP release to current Linux distros really needs to stop. It's apples to oranges and the only thing it accomplishes is a loss of credibility for Linux as a solution ("can't it handle a fair comparison?"). Especially the WPA comment from grandparent is ironic as the out-of-the-box WLAN experience (i.e. just works vs. ndiswrapper hacking) is just now getting together (and comparable to ~XP SP1)

Text messaging is actually just one service of the SMS bearer, and it can also used for sending binary content like configuration messages. There are also many variations (e.g. charactersets), which are defined be the PDU headers. Checkout the protocol identifiers for available services.

This sounds like a classical failure to correctly validate the data or handle some unsupported combination resulting in a crash or a buffer overflow. What is amazing is that they can fit an actual payload to the message...

As stated in the linked article:
- It's a piece of standard 3GPP (=GSM) equipment for lawful intercept, i.e. to allow law enforcement to wiretap calls (according guidelines set by local law).
- It only handles voice calls and does not allow internet traffic monitoring, let alone deep packet inspection.
- The equipment is compliant with EU and UN export regulations

Also, it's much less of a privacy threat than the mechanisms currently in place in US, UK (and I'm sure EU).

Must be the year of the Linux laptop if they got the WLAN working...

LTE alone is nothing. The point of LTE is that it provides next gen data bearer with voice & sms handover to (GSM) 2G/3G. You will never see the same coverage for LTE, and there's no point in providing it if you can't steer voice to 3G/2G. They could do that for CDMA also, but likely not as soon an easily.

This is both informative (a believable in-the-ball-park analysis of Facebook operational costs) & insightful (price is not enough to be the best solution)

Man, I wish I had a penny each time a slashdotter predicts Microsofts demise ;)

This is just an electronic form of the I-W94 Visa waiver form (or something like that) that you have to submit each time. Having this would actually be better than filling that paper thing.

Silly part is that now there are three "entry notifications": this, the paper form, and the notification you either do at the checkin/gate or is done by the travel agent. I guess they'll eventually be unified...

Currently the system consist of "known associates" of the police. In practice you can get included if you are accused of a crime with potential punishment over six months in jail. And in Finland you can't get that from minor stuff like stealing a tv or downloading mp3's.