Comment Re:SHOULD "Apps" Cost Something? (Score 1) 523
No, you'd have 15 minutes to take a sip and decide whether you want an unconditional refund for the coffee.
Comment Re:Doling out power (Score 1) 349
Uh, I think you mean 'aides'.
Comment Re:patent shield (Score 1) 578
Absolutely.
Just looked at the Motorola site. They have 24,500 patents granted and pending in 2G, 3G, 4G, H.264, MPEG-4, 802.11, NFC.
With the codec ones, there could be some benefit for WebM too....
Comment Re:Chicken/Egg Problem (with NoSQL) (Score 1) 152
We want to jump on the NoSQL ship
These comparisons might be of interest...
Submission + - Eric Schmidt: Apple's lawsuits because of jealousy (digitizor.com)
kai_hiwatari writes: "Today, at Google’s Mobile Revolution conference in Tokyo, Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt made an attack on Apple and its litigious way. He said that Apple’s lawsuits against Android are a result of their lack of innovation and jealousy because of Android’s success."
Submission + - Nortel patents go to Apple, MS, RIM and others (techcrunch.com)
tcr writes: A consortium that includes Apple, Microsoft, RIM and Sony has been successful in its bid for the Nortel patent portfolio. The winning bid was $4.5 billion.
Unsurprisingly, TechCrunch predict this could result in a slew of lawsuits directed at Android, but also report that the auction result is likely to undergo scrutiny from the US courts.
Unsurprisingly, TechCrunch predict this could result in a slew of lawsuits directed at Android, but also report that the auction result is likely to undergo scrutiny from the US courts.
Comment Re:People still buy blackberries? (Score 2) 197
It's worth noting that companies like VMware are working on virtualization technology for Android. This would allow handsets to switch between work and home OS images, allowing consumer handsets to be used during work time as secure corporate handsets.
It's possible this could become attractive to the enterprise... no BES, and you can repurpose equipment the employee already owns.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Is facebook the new AOL?
elPetak writes: Think about it... AOL had it's own mailing, instant messaging, pages accessible via keywords and other stuff all in the same interface.
So my questions are:
Isn't that very similar to what Facebook has become?
and more important, will facebook suffer the same fate?
So my questions are:
Isn't that very similar to what Facebook has become?
and more important, will facebook suffer the same fate?
Submission + - Google Doodle Les Paul Homage (walyou.com)
An anonymous reader writes: For those of you who do not know, Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss) was one of the pioneers in the development of the solid-body electric guitar. Today’s Google Doodle marks 96 years from the birth of this extraordinary man.
Submission + - A "moral" operating System (youtube.com)
intiha writes: At TEDx Silicon Valley, Damon horowitz (http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~dhoro/) presents an argument that has resonated in my mind for some time: we the tech people, tend to be excited by purely the newness of what we develop build. But that has often proved to be long term detrimental to the human race. He argues that we should think, deeply, about the moral implication of what we are developing and make a decision accordingly. The Manhattan Project and regret by some (Robert Oppenheimer the most notable) points to this conundrum: we (the techies/geeks) are the people who will most impact the future, and yet we donot think about the deep impact of our work. Perhaps we should.
Comment Re:He raises a valid concern and offers a solution (Score 1) 384
Absolutely...
I think the whole article is a shallow attempt to differentiate Motorola amongst Android vendors.
Motoblur is great because it can show you what's using the battery?
So can Menu/Settings/Applications/Battery use.
I'd agree with the point several on this thread have made.
It's better to naturally downvote the apps that don't follow best practice, rather than ask Google to be a super-draconian gatekeeper. Some of us avoid Apple products for a reason!
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 2) 113
They hacked mobile phone voicemail. Was a pretty simple "hack" for most, some was social engineered afaik.
Perhaps even simpler than that...
I'm amazed the carriers haven't come in for any criticism. Voicemail accounts could be accessed from any phone by entering a PIN - and they were mostly preset to a default, such as '1111' or '1234'. In these cases, you just needed the phone number of the celebrity. Call the remote voicemail service, enter the PIN, and you'd be in.
I remember working for a cellphone reseller in 1997, and being surprised by this. The company leased handsets to the stars of certain soap operas, and the customer care peeps were listening to voicemails down the pub of an evening.
Comment Re:Seems clear to me (Score 1) 90
They founded Apple Corps...
The only reason it's apple-anything is because of the lame pun. Apple Corps... Apple core. Geddit? Must have been funny in the Sixties, or something.
Comment Re:Money saver (Score 1) 111
FWIW, the title is also available on O'Reilly Safari.
Comment Re:Rivalry (Score 1) 140
Let's hope Legal didn't get in on it too, since Firefox supports tabbed browsing and MS are patent trolling.
Did they check inside the cake for a sinister envelope?
