Unsolicited tip for media company c-levels:if your reaction to this...

I believe the suggestion is that if said media people are thinking like that, they're going to be out of a job soon, and should consider buying cheap food and attempting to make industry contacts in order to assist with getting a new job.

Or they could borrow that macbook pro off the songsmith girl.

So you're complaining that you've invested in the wrong hardware and software?

Maybe look at it this way - to build for WinMob, you're going to need to build a windows VM (windows vista home premium: $240) and then you're going to need to get visual studio (standard: $299). I make that $539 total, for some software.

If you want to build for iPhone, you need a mac mini ($599 for the basic model) and a $0 download of Xcode.

So you're moaning about the fact that you have to pay $60 to get a mac mini.

FYI, the Pre does have a keypad - the back of the device slides down to reveal it.

http://www.palm.com/us/assets/images/products/phones/detail/pre/gallery/pre_05.png

I don't know about the retention time, but the information on that web form is *exactly* the same as the I94-W Visa Waiver form that I've been filling in every time I've visited the US over the last 11 years (from the UK, where I was born and Canada, where I live).

The fingerprint scanning and photography has been going on at least the last 5 years.

There's nothing new there, as far as I'm concerned, with the exception that some fields are marked as optional, whereas on the paper form the implication is that all fields are mandatory.

If anything it's beneficial because I don't have to fill out the information on a bit of paper every time I go, and wait for the border guy to copy it into his computer. If I could save the form information (I didn't do a full application, so I don't know whether I can or not) I'd be a happy traveller.