Perhaps this is more useful in large war or battle then individual use.
Tanks may incorporate these to prevent enemies from taking advantages (such as against North Korean).

Other than triggering them, maybe loading or unloading ammo need a security check as well.

Not sure why we are still using modem. I only have a wireless phone, so I am not sure how I can use the modem to connect to someone.
I think a powerful bluetooth device that can allow me connect to someone through my phone (through apps?) and manage my home electronics would be a better idea. Part of the home theatre solution.

What about Mac vs PC?
Elections?

I wonder what are those false advertisements they are talking about.

Anyway, I hope this is not a false advertisement from HTC as well.

Agree, and most likely the content issuers want to have DRM to be in place.

I used to work at a Sport TV channel, and their online video contents agreement with all major leagues are requiring them to use Flash. The Sport TV channel wants viewership (subscriber), but are forced to use Flash format instead of other formats that support HTML5 (mobile purpose).

Anyway, I doubt it is Netflex who worries about DRM, but content issuers or owners (eg. Sony, and etc.) may have those requirements on their agreement.

What if the watch can do more than just a watch?
How about you can sit on the couch and turn down the lights on a movie settings? What if you need to turn off your stove while being in the basement?

With cellphone capable of being the computer (in 3 - 5 years), your watch maybe able to do the little things remotely for your computer. It is hard to imagine the widgets for smartwatch, but I think there is a bigger market then a traditional watch.

Furthermore, it requires an "action" to be performed. I hope that action is convenience to do in public, plus doing it quick.

However, I suppose this is the first step of "reading" data from the brain. By collecting enough data, we may actually understand individual (hint for Google). If we actually can understand living things by brainwave, it can replace password as a way to recognize people (I suppose this is how we "know" others by understanding their ways of doing things).

Just wonder if they are leaning toward mobile market as well. It makes sense if they want to target the tablet market, as there are more mobile and social games around these days. And thinking about the developing countries, there are huge market on the mobile/tablet market.

There are games targeted to hardcore players, while there are games focus on social media/softcore players. Perhaps the conclusion is, don't try to make complex games for softcore, or don't promote a social media game to hardcore. Diablo 3 and SimCity are supposed to be hardcore games, and they failed every aspect for hardcore, while make the focus in softcore (pay to win, connect to friends, ...). If they want to take the softcore market, just make something less complicated and funny. They shouldn't have mixed the male dominant market with female dominant market, it should fail as expected.

At the end, is it difficult to change the code? I never try changing the code, but I believe the most difficult part is to move away from Google Market/Google Play.

The whole purpose of using Android (to me) is to find more apps from Google Play, and if the tracking/monitoring system is within Google Market/Google Play (daemon), then it makes no difference for me to change the Android source code. I might even use a BlackBerry if I can use those Google apps with it (and still be tracked). So the real question is, is it really about Android OS? All these MS complains, is it about the OS? Or is it because the Google Play platform that hook up with the Cloud system that may give Google a much powerful connection to the digital world?

I thought it is more than free, isn't it Open Source?
If I don't like the default application packages, can't I make source code changes to it? I thought Careers or phone makers added their own. My Samsung has their own applications as well.

Microsoft is willing to give back to the public? I think that is the difference.

Same, I was so excited to see a JavaScript version of MineCraft. Thought it would be HTML5, and wonder how the memory and graphic would support it. However, it is more for automation or command line usage, using script command to create blocks.

Trying to imagine what would be communication like when you can communicate to the old lady driving slowly on the fast lane of the highway.

The Google Two Way Authentication is similar the the SMS solution that you mentioned.
As for HSBC 20 years ago (not Internet era yet, but using modem to call into their server), which generates a second password for your next session.