Comment Where are the deltas? (Score 1) 1
Or the following ones? A nearly 500meg update to enable support for an upgrade (other than a few fixes)? Why not just let us download Lion directly?
Comment A greater concern is (Score 0) 99
segregating the data plan from tethering plan... Please, this needs a bill more than anything!
Comment Offtopic (Score 1) 3
Its high time Slashdot should drop Bill Gates pic for MS activity and put up Steve Ballmer's since the former no longer has any role on such decisions.
As far as dropping Silverlight support, I saw it coming sooner or later from a company with such a track record on many of their products including hardware. Microsoft's stability is highly unstable.
I don't wanna be predicting this but I'm afraid WP7 would be the next victim. And such could be the case with the HTML5 based apps on windows 8.
Comment Re:And They'll Encourage Tethering (Score 1) 302
Fear not 'cause in the USA, if you ain't competent enough for the competition, you buy the competition.
Comment I Personally buy from BestBuy when (Score 1) 317
the Amazon price >= BestBuy. Oh yeah there is definitely the CA tax factor, but in some cases its well worth when I get to use the product almost instantly (vs Amazon 2-day prime)...
Submission + - Indian Village Renamed Snapdeal.com (techcrunch.com)
ideaz writes: A village in India has decided to rename itself and henceforth be known as Snapdeal.com Nagar (which means town). Snapdeal.com being an online couponing company that recently raised $12 million and has the lead over Groupon in India in the local ecommerce space. Snapdeal has adopted a remote village in India and enabled clean drinking water facilities for its people by installing manual pumps. To show their gratitude, the village’s residents have decided to rename their village to Snapdeal.com Nagar, actually taking the company by surprise.
Submission + - Using crowdsourcing to identify Vancouver rioters (globaltvbc.com)
Fudge Factor 3000 writes: The Canucks' loss of the final game of the Stanley Cup resulted in complete mayhem in downtown Vancouver. Everything from upturned cars set alight to looting was common place. Unfortunately most of the perpetrators were able to maintain their anonymity by disappearing into the crowds. Fortunately, due to the digital age bystanders took several pictures and videos of the carnage. Now websites (in both Facebook and have been set up to use crowdsourcing to identify the hooligans.
Comment Re:And in other news (Score 1) 404
Book reviews are better. I can simply ignore them without worrying the news content I'm missing on.
Comment And in other news (Score 1) 404
the LulzSec manages to get its daily scoop of attention on SlashDot.
I wonder if we could have a new section on the left for them now.
Comment Re:Could be worse. (Score 1) 50
only on Macs running ver 10.6.7 and above.
Comment Re:Google should sue Apple over patent infringemen (Score 1) 334
I'm not talking about the terminology here but the concept of having a marketplace to sell apps. That said, again am not very sure if that was an 'apple concept' but it was definitely noted by Google.
I myself am not against such kind of copying by these firms (as long as the patents aren't infringed) 'cause they tend to be more competitive, making the consumer have more choices to choose from.
Comment Re:Google should sue Apple over patent infringemen (Score 1) 334
To this "Selling an unlocked phone was Google's thing",
I have:
"Selling a phone was Apple's thing"
"Selling apps on app store was Apple's thing"
maybe even this "Selling notebooks was Apple's thing"
Comment Re:Seems High (Score 1) 334
Agreed! Stop bitching about the price being high guys, its just like any other apple product, expensive. But those you want (need in some cases) will get it no matter.
Also, in EU and Asia you pay the full price of the phone upfront and gain carrier freedom. And a decent phone is anywhere between $400-$500 unlocked anyways. This gives a great option for those living in countries the iphone is not sold yet to use it.
Comment Before that (Score 1) 116
Shouldn't ISys be sued by Apple for using the 'i' prefix?
Comment It is (Score 1) 123
The city that gets me the job?
