Facebook is doing it, Microsoft is just search partner (Bing).

Microsoft/Facebook? Good PR and increased usage of their website.

Google? Increased use of Chrome.

Both Facebook and Microsoft cut a huge deal with the olympics committee to broadcast it free over their website. Let me say that again - FOR FREE. ON THE INTERNET.

I think this would had been great opportunity for Google to do their usual push marketing. Just put olympics streaming on their homepage and require Chrome to view it (like they do on several other HTML5 sites). But they most likely lost the bidding war. There's no doubt they tried tho.

Qt is far from best C++ toolkit. I would personally tout for Embarcadero's (old Delphi/CodeGear) VCL.

They're closing Australian QT Office. As QT is largely open source, it seems like open sores guys have to (and can!) keep managing it themselves. Nokia's and Trolltech's plan on QT has been largely abandoned for a long time already, anyway.

That Raspberry Pi supports Android should not come as surprise to anyone. Android has always been designed to be extremely lightweight and to be ran on minimalistic hardware. Unlike full suited competitors like iOS and Windows Phone 7, Android is best designed for feature phones and "smart" phones that don't require much.

The oddest choice, however, is that on top of the Linux stack pretty much everything runs on freaking Java virtual machine. I do hope that Rasbperry Pi, however, is not trying to emulate that. Other than that, great job guys. When you can get Android running on $29 hardware, you know you're dealing with some mad OS that can run on every piece of crap you put it on.

Great job Rasperry Pi guys!