Code Search is the part I'll miss the most. Great for searching code samples (such as using threads in Perl etc) with some context (instead of a one-line snippet) and without junk like Experts-Exchange or unanswered forum posts. I also like the ability to search code inside a library along with third-party projects using this library, great for bugfixing.
Google is turning into Bing now. Answering common questions with helper scripts (flight info), and forwarding the user to Wikipedia if there is no predefined script. Except that Bing is doing this because their *real* search engine is a joke.

This rule is from MTS' fixed network ToS, and not the mobile phone disivion.

Windows Phone 7 is kinda text-based.
Nokia could use a command-line interface with cloud-based voice recognition and create a really cheap phone - no keyboard, no touchscree, plus bonuses from AT&T for making people pay for traffic even when they're not actively using the internet.

I think you meant Apple

I always thought HMA was a service for using Facebook or any other blocked site at work.

Get a noname Chinese phone. Distributing Google's Android apps/services requires a contract with Google (remember how Cyanogenmod was forced to stop distributing Market/Gmail/Google Maps?), and so small companies distribute only the free, open-sourced version of Android. But I have to warn you, Amazon App Store is much worse - less software and they don't pay app developers if they decide to use an app in their "free app of the day" promotion.

Chinese engineers know English pretty well. After all, they have to communicate with customers and do onsite work. Some Chinese engineers may choose to immigrate to America.
Chinese will only be needed in case you're supervising assembly line workers.

Russia has been building nuclear-powered ships for decades.

You're joking, right? Altavista was only good for simple 1-2 word queries, searching for something like "HP Laserjet 5L Windows NT drivers" resulted in tons of pages containing just the word "Windows" or "HP" or "drivers". I don't even think the results were sorted by rank, I used to find what I was looking on page 20!
It was possible to force searching for pages with all words, but this usually resulted in someone's Geocities or Angelfire page with a story how someone bought a new printer.

Javascript may be OK for small applications, but it's using Java+HTML5 to write complex enterprisey stuff is insane.

SPARC is the only thing Oracle is protecting. All those " sucks, move to a much faster Oracle SPARC server" ads, the early retirement of Oracle for Itanium. And they're actively spreading the message that their SPARC box is optimized for Oracle, so it's worth more.

Servers usually go down after people stop buying the game.
Why waste money on something that doesn't generate as much cash as it used to? For example, Microsoft shut down the PlaysForSure DRM server, without refundung puchased songs. If you're lucky, the vendor will create a patch to remove DRM once the servers go down.

WGA is not as bad (just a serial number check for installation of optional software). Windows Activation is much, much worse. If your PC dies then have fun calling support and proving that you're replacing a PC and not installing the same copy everywhere. Too many reinstalls? Suspicious activity. This is almost as bad as buying virtual stuff in online games.

I read Slashdot and I didn't know the planned Java 7 release date. Which makes WSJ readers even less likely know or care when Java 7 should have been released.

Don't forget that the facebook "like" buttons are collecting data on which sites you're visiting.