Thanks for posting the correct link (sloppy me didn't actually try before posting it). And yes, looks like we all might have to be patient.

At least a few financial quarters, according to some.

Are you new to this world?

Yep. While I still use and like my BB, I *really* hate it that they don't let me use native BB mail application without BIS/BES. I just want to retrieve my mail over Wifi and this is something that is not possible on any BB device.

The developer of the software behind this lists a sample of the data they can collect.

While I can one of the first to be concerned about private data becoming available for marketing purposes, I don't mind as much if the data is not linked to me personally. That is what seems to be the case here: the mall can track my whereabouts as long as they do not know it's me (by linking my credit card purchases to my phone for instance). If this information is gathered in this (anonymous) way, I do not mind as much. If they can link the data to me personally, I shall be bothered...

And yes, Westfield is the name of the company testing this software right now.

I highly doubt it. Where there's money to be made businesses are likely to innovate. The fact that the other players at the time did not "see the future" does not mean that this future would not have come about (perhaps in a different form). Bringing computing to the masses seems like an overwhelmingly obvious step to take...eventually. I don't think we'd all still be living in the tech stone age without the likes of Gates/Woz/Jobs. But I could be wrong.

the horror...the horror!

You make a lot of good points though.

Yes, let's be disrespectful on a post about the death of someone very much deserving of our respect.

You raise a valid point. Looking at it that way, I'd certainly prefer to glance over such a mini-post than the alternative you mentioned. Still, it strikes me as a strange concept on /. Youtube? Yeah okay.

Right'o, I'm letting go (and that's not the Diazepam talking).

That! is really annoying. What is up with people and their This! Am I really getting that old? Is it too much to ask to actually write a few more words? And is This! the reason one feels the need to post as AC?

Whack-a-mole by proxy. Nice one. I just add these nefarious URLs as local loopbacks in my host file. That seems to work well: haven't seen any "like" buttons for a while.

Well played sir, well played.

Care to elaborate? Why would that be the case?

Personally, with the masses running after and rooting for Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc, I have no problem with a stream of critical views on megacorps (which tend to have more than capable spin doctors on their books to toe the official "all's well/do no evil/trust us" line).