So a skeptic was financially supported by like-minded corporate interests? Stop the presses! I look forward to the shocker exposes detailing how climate change evangelists were given grant money (from likeminded sources) to perform more studies which confirmed *their* beliefs. Oh wait--that won't ever happen. Because the academic grant system is pure and unbiased. LMAO.

http://www.livescribe.com/ might be just the thing for you: handwritten notes, digitized without scanning, and bonus audio (and anchored references) to boot.

Do you seriously believe that the UN gets credit for global telecommunications? I'm sure they'd love to, a la Al Gore, agree with you but that's ridiculous. And would you seriously claim that the UN--a political organization by definition--would somehow NOT politicize ICANN more than it is now? Some people don't like America having the control it does, but that's political as well. Show me one way in which the US has abused its oversight and then we can talk about reasons for a possible shift in control. Until then, stop your reflexive inclination toward warm fuzzy handholding, and get back to work improving the world rather than trying to control what others have made.

it is unreasonable for these people to pay the same price as someone who just checks their e-mail and sends photos to their grandchildren.

Yes, let's also say it is unreasonable that some people use public roads more than others--it's just not fair! Why should two people who pay the same taxes get different levels of service? The reason it is reasonable for people to pay similar amounts for disparate useage are:

• there are already cheap-o plans for cost conscious, low-use customers.
• pay-per-byte plans are ridiculously transparent excuses to bilk all customers as much as possible
• see reason #2

Just wait for the lawsuits to start rolling in when people with unsecured wi-fi points get billed for their neighbors' usage...then the government will respond by making it illegal to use open wi-fi spots, as "theft of services"...then we'll all be logging in to the interwebs with our government-issued tracking ID... It's a 'solution' to solve a non-existent problem.

Sales of the iPhone are are currently around 1.35 million units. To put that in perspective, in 2007 about 1.13 BILLION handsets will be sold worldwide. So Apple's market share could be generously estimated at about 0.2%--they just aren't a real player in the phone market.

Apple shouldn't be concerned about the Google phone. They should be concerned about what will happen in a year or so when the media hype has worn off and there are a dozen viable (and more functional) iPhone equivalents.