Comment Re:Gold (Score 2) 400
"[x] High-Value" - That's pretty subjective.
Comment Re:What a lame announcement... (Score 1) 414
that may be true, but since WP has next to none user adoption, they will have to bring something new to the table if they want those phones to sell, right?
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 64
Nothing new here (see Guttenberg's and Schavan's case in Germany or Grasser in Austria).
Comment Who cares? (Score 3, Informative) 64
Seriously, who does? Why is this on Slashdot? It's not like Romania is relevant in world politics..
Submission + - Google Buys Quickoffice (forbes.com)
x0d writes: "Google this morning disclosed in a blog post that it has acquired Quickoffice, a Plano, Texas company which offers software for editing, viewing and creating Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on a mobile device.
Terms were not disclosed."
Terms were not disclosed."
Submission + - Google Points Finger at Microsoft, Nokia (wsj.com)
x0d writes: "Google Inc. said it filed an antitrust complaint Thursday in Europe
arguing that Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.51% and Nokia Corp. are using proxy companies
to brandish patents and hurt the prospects of Google's Android mobile-phone software to the advantage of Microsoft's technology.
The Internet-search giant alleges that Microsoft and Nokia have entered into agreements that enable entities such as Canada-based Mosaid Technologies Inc. to legally enforce their patent rights and share the resulting revenue."
arguing that Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.51% and Nokia Corp. are using proxy companies
to brandish patents and hurt the prospects of Google's Android mobile-phone software to the advantage of Microsoft's technology.
The Internet-search giant alleges that Microsoft and Nokia have entered into agreements that enable entities such as Canada-based Mosaid Technologies Inc. to legally enforce their patent rights and share the resulting revenue."
Submission + - Google Applies For Dot-LOL Domain (techweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: "Google has applied for the .lol domain in ICANN's sale of generic top level domains (gTLDs). Google also asked for .google, .docs, and .youtube at a cost of $185,000 each, in the round of applications which has finally closed. A glitch in the application system may have leaked some of applicants' data other applicants.."
Submission + - Is Facebook going to buy Opera? (latimes.com)
x0d writes: "The Facebook spending spree may be continuing as a new report says the social networking giant might be looking to buy Norwegian company Opera Software. Now fully under the microscope of Wall Street as well as Main Street investors, Facebook is trying to solve its mobile monetizing problems and has been gobbling up various companies in recent months to increase its presence in the world of smartphones."
Comment wow (Score 1) 684
I knew it all along! My brain goes numb just by watching it.
Comment A bit late (Score 1) 182
They should have done that from the beginning.
Comment I smell (Score 1, Insightful) 366
flamebait
Comment It's still pointless. (Score 1, Redundant) 617
It doesn't even matter if it runs on iOS, Android or whatever. My brother actually bought into the hype and got himself a Galaxy Tab but had to sell it after about 3 months because he wasn't using it for anything other than occasional web browsing. The 'cool' factor wears off very quickly. Netbooks were better. At least those were still 'real' computers.
Comment Re:Damn. (Score 1) 115
oh, my mistake. I saw that chrome logo, tried it in opera and it didn't work. I'm also too lazy to open safari just for that.
Comment Damn. (Score 1) 115
It's Chrome-only.
