US businesses can deduct up to $5250 per employee per year in schedule C federal income tax filings for tuition reimbursement. I guess Amazon would rather pay taxes than help employees realize their full potential.

...But the pay could be better. Driving a 14 year old car isn't as much fun as it used to be.

If the creative minds behind The Walking Dead want to do something unique and interesting they should shoot live action episodes where the cast meets up the cast of some of the better recent zombie shooter games. The players from Left for Dead II could blend in with The Walking Dead cast quite nicely, IMHO.

Was his DNA sequenced? Has any of his genetic material been preserved? It would really be sad if the best we can offer the last specimen of such a magnificent species is a spot in a museum display case for his carcass.

Intel has enough hardware developers that the don't typically need to license third party IP to get the job done. Many silicon vendors don't have that luxury and cannot risk incidental leaks of IP details for which they could be held liable. Lets see how much documentation Intel releases for the Atom smartphone chips with PowerVR GPUs.

This grass is obviously defective and should be replaced with a variety that produces equal parts cyanide and happiness.

You don't feel an example of an entrepreneur standing up to frivolous litigation is relevant? Get a clue already.

Nice to see more people fighting against the legal trolls.GIVE THEM NOTHING!

I, for one, am rather disappointed to see autonomous spy capabilities within spitting distance of 99.999 percent uptime when the average consumer smartphone becomes a glossy brick within 5 hours of being disconnected from the power grid.

So which incumbent social media giant will drag Nintendo into litigation over patent infringement first?

Just because SMS piggybacks parts of the cellular network protocol to get from the tower to your device that does not make it free. While I agree it is a cash cow given current pricing in the US you cannot completely ignore the backend and administrative costs of maintaining any large scale, reliable communications protocol. And don't forget the cost storing all those messages for our law enforcement overlords to keep us safe from ourselves.

The real trick is trying to distinguish yourself as enough of a "giant" so that future generations may acknowledge the footing with which you provide them.

Its been a few years since I left the embedded space (take a hint, recruiter-droids!) but per-device Windows license pricing broke down along the following lines:

Windows CE: $5
Windows XP Embedded: $40

Nah, they will merely report the incident to the Cyber Police.