Comment And while we're at it... (Score 2, Funny) 215
"We also /wanted/ the Kin to fail after like 9 minutes on the market as a learning experience for our Win7 phone team"
Comment ESXi (Score 1) 384
ESXi is free these days, it seems like a good option. If you are just looking to virtualize desktops, though, look elsewhere.
Submission + - Smartphone Apps Harvest Personal Info (appanalysis.org)
An anonymous reader writes: "Researchers from Intel Labs, Penn State, and Duke University have found that popular smartphone applications are sharing users' physical location with online advertisers. Their study watched in realtime how 30 popular Android applications used private information. They found 15 of the applications shared users' location with ad servers, and 7 applications sent phone identifiers to developers. To do this, the researchers built a tool called TaintDroid, which augments Android with the monitoring infrastructure. The tool will be open sourced and the study will be presented at the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), being held next week in Vancouver, BC."
Comment Classmates.com and such (Score 0, Troll) 442
Get rid of the crap services out there and recover those IP's.
Comment Someone lost their copy of the memo (Score 2, Interesting) 390
The journalist, MPAA, and RIAA model indicate that when a business model becomes outdated, you solve that not by evolving to compete in a new landscape, but instead litigation and lobbying. Duh!
Comment Notify next of Kin (Score 5, Insightful) 311
Dear Microsoft,
Seriously? Anyone remember the Microsoft Kin, launched in 2010? If the iPhone has died, then the Microsoft offering was a stillborn.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20009336-56.html
Comment Next (Score 5, Insightful) 253
Now we just need a Paul Allen to step up and sue a senator for patent infringement, and maybe we'll get an ear in the Senate to put a stop to this craziness.
Comment The KILLER OF EVERYTHING...or not. (Score 2, Insightful) 271
I thought we had learned our lessons in declaring X the Y Killer.
Sure, its happened every now and then(see Myspace/Facebook, HDDVD/Bluray), but as everyone here knows (and many lament about), Microsoft is still alive and well despite a resurgence by Apple, iPhones are still selling despite the allegedly-killer swarm of Android devices, websites still get hits despite content being routed more and more into apps, etc.
Comment Re:They're taught to keep their beliefs (Score 1) 1248
Or, people thought John Kerry was a raging flip flopper because he...flipped and flopped incessantly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXwCrpMHkYc&mode=related&search=
People perceived constantly changing answers and positions as flip flopping because WE ARE NOT STUPID, not because of any strange hard wiring in our heads. If you can watch the video and still say Kerry did not flip flop, however, you may just have a problem in YOUR wiring.
