Comment Re:All Phones Ship Unlocked (Score -1, Flamebait) 100
It makes a great difference when you're traveling elsewhere. Oh right, US people...
Comment All Phones Ship Unlocked (Score -1, Flamebait) 100
Everywhere else but the U.S...
Submission + - Google Faces Heavy Antitrust Fines in the EU (networkworld.com)
SquarePixel writes: Europe's competition watchdog is considering formal proceedings against Google over antitrust complaints about the way it promotes its own services in search results, potentially exposing the company to a fine of 10 percent of its global turnover. Google is accused of using its search service to direct users to its own services and to reduce the visibility of competing websites and services. If the Commission found Google guilty of breaking E.U. competition rules, it could restrict Google's business activities in Europe and fine the company up to 10 percent of its annual global revenue (US$37.9 billion last year).
Submission + - Facebook Disables Facial Recognition in EU (theverge.com)
SquarePixel writes: Facebook has disabled facial recognition features on its site for all new European users. The move follows stringent privacy recommendations made by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. Facebook plans to delete all Tag Suggest information and delete the feature for existing EU users by October 15th at the latest. "The news comes as the DPC publishes a lengthy report on a re-audit of the company, which has its European headquarters in Dublin. The report is broadly positive, and the decision to disable Tag Suggest appears to have played a major role in assuaging the Commissioner's office."
Submission + - How Microsoft is wooing college kids to write apps for Windows 8 (businessweek.com)
SquarePixel writes: Bloomberg has an interesting story about Microsoft's efforts to simultaneously woo younger workers and to get more apps into its Windows Store. "Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, designed Windows 8 for touch-screen technology included in the company's first tablet, Surface, and other devices coming this year. To gain share in tablets, a market expected by DisplaySearch to reach $66.4 billion in 2012, Microsoft needs enough apps to challenge the more than 200,000 available for iPad. Using student recruits is one way Microsoft can woo app developers who are used to building programs for mobile phones and tablets, where the company has little and no share, respectively. Luring programmers before graduation is particularly critical for recruitment in the U.S., which lags behind countries such as India and China in its ability to crank out qualified engineers."
Submission + - Google Stops Offering Free Music Service In China (pcworld.com)
SquarePixel writes: Google has yanked its free music service in China after being unable to make it popular enough. The service offered Chinese people free licensed music downloads and was launched in 2009 to compete with the rival search engine Baidu. "Once China's second largest search provider, Google has now fallen to fourth place, overtaken by other local companies. — Google's popularity in the country has waned ever since 2010, when the company pulled the plug on its China-based search engine following disputes with the government over censorship and hacking concerns. Google's market share is at 5 percent, while Baidu's is 74 percent".
Comment Re:Silly and inflammatory (Score 1) 146
Charlie and Dino sounds like some kids adventure movie. What's up with that?
Comment Re:Html5 is FUD (Score 1) 110
Doesn't anyone have problem with the full source code being available? I mean if you develop with HTML5 and JS the full source is there. I think companies might have a problem with that.
Comment Re:That quickly? (Score 0) 110
I'm just waiting for them to pick up the pace like Chrome and Firefox did. HTML 38, here we come!
Submission + - Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing (thenextweb.com)
SquarePixel writes: Microsoft is urging Safari users to switch to Bing after Google was fined $22.5 million for violating Safari privacy settings. "Microsoft is keen to make sure that no-one forgets this, let alone Safari users, and the page summarizes the events that took place". It tells users how Google promised not to track Safari users, but tracked them without their permission and used this data to serve them advertisement. Lastly, it tells how Google was fined $22.5 million for this and suggests users to try the more privacy oriented Bing search engine.
Comment Re:"a number of user interface designers" (Score 2, Informative) 484
As you said, not knowing the OS is the problem. However, some things are clearly intended to distance OS X from Windows, while providing no usability improvement.
Just the other day, I spent some 45 seconds trying to delete a file the Windows way. First I realized there was no Delete key, which is annoying even if it's not strictly the OS' fault. So I tried backspace, seems like a logical alternative when you want to delete stuff. Nope, so I tried right-clicking and all sorts of weird click+button combinations I could remember.
Only then did I remember that you must absolutely drag files to the trash.
No you don't. Cmd+Backspace deletes them just fine.
Comment Re:Skeu (Score 3, Interesting) 484
Actually, I found some of the webpages in the pics very well done. Let's take for example the burger menu webpage. It's simple, elegant and probably the best done choose what items you want on a burger, just because it's so simple.
Comment Re:Actually it is a problem (Score -1) 180
Government regulation is like violence. If little doesn't help, use more of it.
Is that you, Kim Jong-un?
Comment Old wisdom (Score 4, Funny) 278
This is nothing more than the old wisdom of not dating anyone who is exactly like you. You need someone that shares little same interestst, but who can fullfil things you dont like or do. Yes, you can have one night stands between developers, but then again, majority of female programmers are ugly and insecure as hell, so you might want to get a normal person anyway.
Comment 0.74 cents per GB (Score 5, Funny) 405
or about
Wow, $0.0074 per GB! That's cheap!
