Used to be until India incident. It was hushed off so quickly that one can only really assume single possible outcome.

Agree with the notion though - as a key manager RIM's infrastructure is doing admirable job.

Frankly - poor children to have somebody like this ... creature ... even allowed near to them.

That is what constant 1G acceleration (and braking) means. The passengers would feel as if in normal gravity.

Wasn't this already done like 4 years ago? Okay, this time they managed to link up tetris, not just controlled animation (IIRC), but still...

Including J2ME support would NOT have been an advantage. Probably a way to kill the platform on the spot.
(nothing against J2ME itself, but its ecosystem at the time was extremely unhealthy)

Fair few possible causes, but ultimately because SMS is a classical store & forward system. There are zero guarantees about latency and simple things like your phone retransmit behaviour plays fairly big role too.

I've written few too many SMPP implementations & services in my days. Alas some of the more interesting uses for SMS's are going fast downhill now that standard non-compliant smartphones are running the asylum.

And where it doesn't?

That applies to a man. If I'd have a semi-competent female candidate for a position she'll be out of the job market in a heartbeat. Best thing apart from having healthier balance in the office? Nobody from HR can touch me with a 10 feet pole until the next hiring round comes.

That's what is happening. Go and ask your HR department about the hiring filters they need to apply to meet ether government mandated standards or to maintain the 'goodwill' presence in the industry.

"NoSQL is widely taken to be a joke by professionals, who can easily achieve the same scalability using relational databases, without giving up their many useful and even necessary features." - I have a problem with this comment. Happy to agree that so far anything that's been publicly demonstrated indeed has been just an exercise in breaking ACID for no reason, but relational databases have their limits as well. So yes, NoSQL movement is a joke, but relational databases aren't necessarily the safe haven as they may seem.

For background: Just this afternoon company I work in lost around USD 500k (estimated) just because our relational database is working hard at the limits. We are one of the reference cases for the vendor.