Q1 2008? 2009? 2010?

It's hard to know which unsubstantiated rumour you're referring to.

Hundreds of businesses, governments, and organizations have now testified that they rely on the data produced by the long form census. It is useful and important information.

The intrusion of the census is minimal. It's a minor inconvenience at worst.

If the government wanted to eliminate the threat of imprisonment, they could have done that. They didn't. They opted, instead, to corrupt the data.

Your spin bears no resemblance to reality.

Yes, the long form census was eliminated, but it was replaced with a voluntary National Household Survey that will ask the same questions, but will be distributed to more households and yield less useful results, all at a greater cost to taxpayers. No gravy train has been overturned. Your alleged "entitled statisticians" can breathe easy, their "perpetual employment" is not at risk.

The data that we rely on to intelligently run a country is, however.

If they don't want to see Java fracture, they should stop wasting everyone's time with JavaME -- it's been a decade now and no one has ever done anything useful with it -- and embrace whatever's in Android as the official mobile Java solution.

The writing's on the wall.

How about *because* it's working so well for Google?

I presume Microsoft would like to charge something for their operating system?

If you don't like the way Google runs the Market, you're free to install Android applications from any other source instead.

This is a powerful capability, but personally, I trust Google (for now) to use it responsibly. If their actions prove me wrong, I'll just stop getting my apps from them.

He may laugh on stage, but he probably cries himself to sleep at night. Google has made greater headway with Android in the last couple of years than Microsoft ever made in a decade of Windows Mobile.

Actually, it only implies Steve Jobs is aware that the US is not the only country in the world.

Ugh. Both articles are pure innuendo. For example:

Technical Glitches

The biggest challenge for Google may be to improve its software and ensure that it can adapt to the mobile market, said Maribel Lopez, an analyst at Lopez Research LLC in San Francisco. Google is on its fourth revision of Android in the past year, in part because of software glitches and missing features, she said.

Golly! Missing features and glitches...that sounds really bad! But wait, aren't all new revisions of software always to add new features and fix bugs? Seriously, in the four revisions over the last year, Android has far surpassed the firmly established competition in just about every respect. I don't know if I've ever seen such a rate of innovation in a platform before.

Thought they're written to sound alarming, there's nothing surprising about anything in either of these articles. We already knew that Google's doing all the development in the core platform, so why should we be concerned that they are the ones making the decisions about its direction? We already knew that Android is designed and licensed to allow pieces of the system to be replaced by OEMs and users, so why should we be concerned that they're doing that?

"We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone."

Wow, that's quite a responsiblity. Presumably they'll be removing the browser from the next iPhone, since that's currently a pretty easy way to get porn on the iPhone.

I wonder if he's ever going to go after Grindr? My bet is no way. Apple does not want to lose the gays.

Heh. I remember people saying that about iPhone when it was just shy of 10% market share, too.

Wait, are you saying that WebOS won't kill apps when memory gets tight? Does your Pre have a hard drive in there for swap?

Huh? I can touch type just fine on my netbook (an IdeaPad S10e). They keys are almost full size, and the feel is great. I've experienced worse with some desktop keyboards. The screwy placement of the right shift key (to the right of the up arrow) took some time to get used to, but I that's not a problem with any other netbook, as far as I know.

Now if we could just convince some OEMs to replace the horrible little touch pads with trackpoints or touch screens, we'd be in business.

Doesn't this amount to paying companies a million dollars to *ask* Google not to crawl/index their sites?

Wow. Google would so be defeated. What ever could it do?

"The Liberals are whores to the American media companies. The Conservatives SHOULD have been rational about this but they got in bed with the same people who will TURN ON THEM EVERY ELECTION. The Media companies are ultimately Liberal stooges."

Huh? The American media ignores Canada pretty much all the time. Occasionally they'll do a story on waiting lists and why socialized medicine is such a horrible idea. The private Canadian media largely supported the Conservatives in the last election. Both national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and The National Post, endorsed Mr. Harper. And who can forget CTV's last-minute hatchet job on Mr. Dion, which was ruled a violation of industry ethical standards by the CBSC and earned Mike Duffy an appointment as a Conservative senator?