Woops, guess I should rtfa. It is mentioned, but said it isn't ready from prime time yet. My assumption is that Adobe will refocus its efforts on the edge tool now that they have officially sidelined flash for multiple platforms.

I realize it is still a preview, but isn't it exactly what the developers/designers would want (an HTML5, CSS3, Javascript tool):

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/

"Adobe® Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Edge will be updated regularly to add new functionality, stay ahead of evolving web standards, and incorporate user feedback to provide the best functionality and experience possible. This is an early look at Edge with more capabilities to come."

I'd assume they would be interested in the Palm patents.

B/c its likely that B&N and Amazon are selling the hardware for very low margins. The anticipated revenue from the App store and book/media sales is what allows them to do this.

Actually I think you don't understand how Verizon FIOS is setup. The fiber optic signal is converted to a standard (US) digital qam signal once it reaches the house. There is an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) installed at the house that converts the optical line to standard coax for TV signals. You can use anything that gets can tune QAM to get unencrypted channels. Most new TVs can show unencrypted channels (such as ABC, NBC, FOX, CW, etc) without a box. You can also use standard cablecard 3rd party devices (tivos, moxi, windows media center w/ cablecard tuners) to view and record any channel.

If you have multiple lines, then there might be something in it for you depending on your usage. There is a rumor of shared family data plans. That is you can pay the $50 once and share 5gb across all of the phones on your plan. Obviously it depends on your usage, but I know that it could save me money. I currently pay $30 each for "unlimited" data on my two lines. I use ~3-4GB/month and my wife uses 200mb/month. The 5GB plan could save me $10/month if it was shared across phone lines. Of course this is merely a rumor at this point.

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm more impressed that it is able to die when it leaves the water and then re-animate itself when it comes back.

Zombie Spiders!

Chrome OS

I doubt the people that pay $6300 for a toilet actually clean their own toilets.

Roku boxes have supported HLS for a while now, but don't support RTSP. More content in HLS means more channels for the Roku (public and private).

I'll be in FL then, and I'd love to see the launch. I've always wanted to see one of the launches, but never made it down there.

I've been running custom roms and kernels on my rooted Droid OG for a while now. What exactly was the locked bootloader preventing me from doing?

Spiderman 3 came out in the summer of 2007, which was really only the start of the current economic down turn in the US. It wasn't really till mid to late 2008 that the stuff hit the fan in the US. Unemployment was at 4.8% in April of '08, by March of '09 it was at 9%.

Videos from CES showed people holding the laptop dock with phone upside down and (gently) shaking it. The phone did not leave the dock.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/07/gaming-on-the-motorola-atrix-laptop-dock-upside-down/

My question was why would anyone buy it, not why would Apple make it.

In all likelyhood, Apple is taking the same approach they took with 3G, let the network built out first. And wait for the 2nd/3rd generation radios that use less power and cost less to buy.