Your UTM gave me a UTI.

Thanks for sharing the virus!

Actually I think the idea is not to bundle all apps into one but allow data communication between them to be better. I think it could be communication pathway would be more of permiable barriers which get smaller down the line. Firewall to AV to Spy/Greyware to deep scan heuristics on the hard drives.

Or is that belly below the bar?

Whatever though, ur in e right place.

Interesting is that no one else has commented on the fact that this is basically an iPhone wrapper application. You don't go back into the app store to buy content, instead going to amazon.com and buying content there.

I thought that was a no-no in Apple's TFA on iPhone apps.

A Website provides a public service. It is free, as in no fee is charged to you to have a general Facebook account. Just now you are screaming? "Hey they can't use my pictures to sell stuff or hype Facebook! They never asked for my permission!"

But you did allow them by having an account in the first place. Geez, people, what do you not get? If you want sole possesion of your material (content) then buy your own webserver and host your own damn content.And then spend the rest of your life siccing lawyers on all the people who copy your material and using it for profit (that's not yuour own profit).

Until then, you should always be aware of the cost of Internet "freebies."

No...I think the point is US businesses may have to judge what their identity is for the next 10 years or so. Yes, you can play in the international arena but the US customer base will want to know that the services that they pay a premium for are based in the US. The US economy is not based upon the stock prices of companies but of the GNP, valuation of the dollar and trade.

As more companies offshore employees, a backlash of US citizens will have a greater voice in deciding company value. Much like protests of child labor hurt the public image of certain companies and pledged boycotts of those services and goods, the new protests will again echo the 70s protest of "made in the USA."

Dell and IBM both learned that corporate Help Desk support for US companies must be in the US. Both companies experienced downturn in purchased goods and services when it was learned (or felt) that Help Desk was in India.

Again, the point is that for America to get back on track, companies will learn that it must be US for US first in goods and services.

I know for a fact that several departments within IBM (in the US) have sent down employees to Brazil and India to train those who wouldd eventually take over their jobs.

So in the strictest sense, yes, it is a resource action to fire "duplicate" services or make the company run leaner. However, it is disengenious to say anything other than this was planned to occur as early as Q1 2008. Simply put, IBM artifically inflated their employee base so that they could transition services to a less costly (to the bean counters) and fire the ones in the US.

They will "get away with it" only so long as the company sees no penalty in their actions. They didn't fire anyone until after Christmas and after their quarterly earnings. So to many investors they are doing good things.

The only way to combat offshoring is: a) as a US customer, demand goods and services that originate in the US; b) US gov't remove any tax benefits to a company that has X percentage of the workforce in other countries. It doesn't penalize a company (ala tarrifs) but does reward companies that are American in employee base with tax incentives.

Lord knows I am going to get slammed for this...but where is the white guy?

I am afraid that Congress, behind closed doors, is still a racist institution. I'm afraid that either person will not be as succesful in navigating those waters with ties back to India. (Or Russia, or China, etc.)

Lets be honest...unless they give him a CGI makeover...

Since it is the 400th anniversary, the red sky could actually be the angry villagers and clerics burning down all those awful, evil, and very non-Catholic Centers of Witchery (formerly known as schools, laboratories, observatories, etc.)