They built Funnybot? Do we have to worry about it exterminating the human race?

You might want to add for the US readership that those 60 minutes you have on your mobile plan are outgoing; incoming calls and texts are free. I just subcscribed to Bouygues' "Bbox Sensation Fibre": 37.90 EUR/month for a FTTLA bundle with TV, unlimited international & mobile phone, 30 (effective in my case) Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. I have catch-up TV, a media center with USB and SD inputs, DVR, modem, Wi-Fi router and video games all in one box. It's not the cheapest but I didn't have a landline (and no will to get one), and cable works beautifully where I live.

since Windows for x86 is apparently cheaper, simply cut a bloody swath through ARM devices and lead Intel to sell a bunch of Atoms...

Especially considering Intel now has their Medfield Atom processor going head-to-head with ARM smartphones. This single-core chip is faster than a lot of dual-core ARM SoCs, if not most, and sips just as much juice.

Intel's Medfield & Atom Z2460 Arrive for Smartphones: It's Finally Here
Lava Xolo X900 Review - The First Intel Medfield Phone - Performance

This article compares Apple, a hardware maker, with Google and Android, who provides software to hardware makers? How is that a fair comparison?

Seeing how the target demographic of that package is mostly MBAs, I think it works out pretty well.

This actually looks nice for a prototype! The data is well laid out. This is probably the first app that convinced me that Metro might work out in the end.

I think this is what they may aim for, with .NET and Silverlight.

If I got this correctly, you could just use managed .NET, an ARM CLR, and you'd be good to go, your application would run pretty much anywhere.

NATO aircrafts have OTAN printed on it because the two official languages used in NATO are English and French. OTAN means Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord.

Facebook would be a good example of this. In IE, rendering time allows the full page with images to be loaded before displaying it. I used to have up to 70% of my CPU eaten by IE7 trying to display the page (just to resituate, this was on an Eee PC 701). Chrome on the other hand displays the page much faster, and images are still loading after the page render. CPU utilization was also lower, hovering around 20%. I did not time both browsers and I don't have my Eee anymore. But I think it is (or was) a good example of a Javascript heavy website. Gmail is also a good example of a Javascript-loaded website.

How about Robogeisha? Is she safe?

I don't know about elsewhere, but this exists in France already. It's called e-Carte Bleue. You have a program on your computer, you enter an amount of money, you press generate. It calls back your bank, asks for authorization and responds back with a one-time CC number. While it doesn't work absolutely everywhere, it's damn useful to test out stuff. It costs not much IIRC, I don't use it that much these days (I only buy from trusted sources)...

Of course, you cannot book tickets you have to retrieve at the station/airport with this, but it's the most convenient system I found yet.