eBooks in general aren't a viable alternative for textbooks, or any book designed for reference material. There's too much rapid back and forth page flipping during typical textbook use. Tablets/pads/desktops/laptops/dedicated devices/etc.. simply don't have a viable interface to replace the ease of three fingered page flipping, multiple reference books open at the same time for cross referencing, etc. IMHO, eBooks are only a viable replacement for linear/chronological reading (as in reading a novel).

What the article fails to mention is that Microsoft and Samsung came to a cross-licensing agreement. Microsoft isn't extorting Samsung like some replies above like to believe. In the deal, Microsoft is also licensing some patents from Samsung as well. It's just not made transparent.

The statement in bold points out that there's a structured agenda on the table. It's not like a random group of people coincidentally happened to be in the same place at the same time and their actions just miraculously worked in sync with each other.

Angry Mobs rarely accomplish anything but random destructive results and don't have a focused collective agenda, and as a result most likely will not achieve anything. Those that do, have somebody/somebodies directing traffic, thus negating the assumption of a "leaderless collective".

Since when? You mean that little "policy" of not using cell phones on planes? Somehow I find it hard to believe anybody would follow that policy during a hijacking.

Aside from photographs and thousands of witnesses?

The 86% is in reference to the portion of the royalties from the search box, not the whole $104M. Crunch the numbers and 86% is still off by 1%, but that's easily attributed to rounding off the actual numbers. ie... 103.5 x .965 x .855

A tragedy in the sense that at the end, you realize Cap is a 90 year old virgin.

I would venture to guess "Communication Breakdown". It's not like the lead train came to an instant stop when it lost power, as stopping a train takes a considerable effort. One would speculate that if a train lost power, it would only apply enough brake to ensure control on the track because it knows there's another train rapidly approaching from behind. And only then come to a complete stop when it's safe to do so.

Not really "Free Schooling" as the tuition still has to be paid to receive the credits the internship provides.

Are you under the impression the Android Market is the only source available for installing apps to your Android device?

It's not like they're banning it from your device. Got a new phone or wiped the device on an upgrade? Just download get it from a different source. Google isn't saying you can't have it on your device. They're simply not allowing it on their market. Whoop-de-do. There are other markets and sources (and in this case directly from the developer).

This submission, and the article referenced to, read entirely differently.

Where exactly does it say they were fired?

Yeah well, when your company's revenue was up 15% over the same quarter last year, and net profit is down 10% from the same quarter last year... that's not something you'd want to draw attention to. $700mil may look like a large number on the surface, but it's actually much smaller than it should have been.

Umm no they haven't.

Ooops, in the above recounting I forgot to mention that during the course of trying to remove myself from their mailing list, there was some unwarranted and not so nice return correspondence.