Comment Re:Sounds Better? (Score 1) 433
Deaf studies have been performed an resulted in a complete tie
Comment While 1'300 millions bought iPhones by mistake (Score 1) 711
While 1'300 million customers bought iPhones by mistake thinking they would look cool just to notice later that everybody and their neighbors already had one.
Comment In Switzerland (Score 5, Interesting) 386
Here in Switzerland, canton Vaud, Tax Day was March 15. It is quite easy : you download a Java app from the government Web site. It works on Windows, Mac or Linux. You can open last year's return to prefill the relevant information, then you are guided through the application as to which fields you need to fill. When done, the electronic form is sent back, encrypted, to the government. In many cases, you do not need to join any other justification document, but they may ask you for them later. Usually, you do not need to send your salary statement either because your employer is required to send it directly to the government so they already have it.
EU To Allow 3G and 4G Connections On Planes 106
jfruh writes "In America we're celebrating the fact that we don't have to stow our Kindles during takeoff and landing anymore, but the EU is going a step further and not requiring passengers to switch their phones to "airplane" mode anymore. If you're on an airplane with a Network Control Unit that regulate cellular connections, you can text and make calls over standard 3G and 4G networks. You'll want to watch out for roaming charges, though, especially if you're on a flight crossing national borders."
Comment Similar system in 2001 (Score 1) 111
A similar system was demonstrated in Switzerland 10 years ago, but was considered as not viable and never implemented since.
http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.serpentine.ch%2Fp_realisations%2FPilote_Ouchy.html (sorry original site only in french)
Submission + - Apple Drops Swiss Railway Clock After One Year (techweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: One year on from being forced to take a licence for the Swiss Railways clock, after being caught using it without permission, Apple has quietly dropped the clock from the iOS7 on the iPad, despite having paid 20 million Swiss francs (£13.6m) to use it.
Submission + - Pioneer in surround sound, noise reduction dies at 80
krouic writes: Ray Dolby, the American inventor who changed the way people listen to sound in their homes, on their phones and in cinemas, died Thursday in San Francisco. A pioneer in the field of sound, Dolby will be remembered as the man who took the hiss out of sound recordings. With a fortune of $2.4 billion at his death, Dolby truly did make silence golden.
"To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in the darkness and grope toward an answer, to put up with the anxiety about whether there is an answer," Mr Dolby once said.
"To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in the darkness and grope toward an answer, to put up with the anxiety about whether there is an answer," Mr Dolby once said.
Comment 42.195 km (Score 1) 92
If they offer me the flight, I'll run the full marathon to break the record
Comment Re:Purposeful (Score 1) 519
Apple software on Windows has always been terrible, thinking it can take control of the whole PC.
A few years ago, most games I bought for my children would refuse to install if the QuickTime version bundled with the game was not also installed. Games refused to run if they detected that the installed version of QuickTime that was not exactly the one that came bundled with them, even if the installed version was more recent. Actually, QuickTime was just needed to play the game's opening sequence....
QuickTime also grabbed all media file associations for itself without asking the user. You had to painstakingly reassociate each media file type with you prefered player after each QuickTime install (including updates).
To me, this was a good summary of Apple's attitude : if you install our product, you would not want to use any other similar product. After this experience, I did not ever bother to install itunes.
Comment While Apple... (Score 1) 80
While Apple researches which shade of shiny white will improve user experience...
Comment Could occur again (Score 1) 41
The biggest hazard for the lake Geneva (Leman lake actually) would be from the various large dams in the upper Rhône valley. Should one of them collapse, it would be ad 563 all over again.
Comment Why Glass ? (Score 1) 93
Shouldn't these be called Google Googles ?
Comment Re:Cognitive dissonance (Score 1) 224
Switzerland turned Franc into Euro this year and nobody told me ?
Check your facts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_franc
Comment Re:Cool tech, but (Score 1) 333
Because Apple keeps moving the goal post. They will market a single feature of their new product that is above average (while most others are average). When other manufacturers will tout a better value for that feature, Apple will change the marketed feature and so on.
Comment No iP**e mentioned anywhere but the headline (Score 2) 176
Why is it that everytime an article mentions a "cellular phone",
