Yep, this is pretty common practice. I used to work for Nordstrom.com and we bought up all kinds of not-so-flattering domain name combinations to avoid any shenanigans.

I feel like some point in the future (hopefully sooner rather than later), there is going to be a rebound effect with these huge smartphone screens. Just like when the enormous 17" and larger laptops with giant screens, gobs of speakers and lots of buttons were all the rage, people finally realized that there was…

There is actually a pretty fascinating RadioLab episode that talks specifically about the politics, economics and other issues with blood donations and more specifically how they generally won't discuss it. Interesting stuff. http://www.radiolab.org/story/308403-b…

Looks like the SunTrac company is still around making more modern versions of this stuff. There is a Wikipedia page about the "father" of this technology with some references for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Wi…

Well for one thing, there is no button UI (or the other app UI elements visible in the Camera app) under/near his thumb.

Looks like the post has been fixed—it's "convex" now. And my eye has stopped twitching.

I'm confused by the statement "you realize you're standing far higher than you were when you arrived." If the floor is concave as you say, wouldn't you be lower than the door you walked through when you're in the middle of the room?

Like the vodka?

Whyyyyy you ask??? Well probably because most desktop machines have actual speakers plugged in to those ports rather than headphones so it doesn't matter what side it is on. My MacBook Air has the port on the left side as do a lot of laptops—again usage scenario—most laptops will have headphones and not speakers…

I'm not sure what the insides of your pockets contain or what you've been doing to that phone, but that wear is nothing like mine. My black iPhone 5 has been without a case from day one and I'm constantly putting it into my pockets, gym bags, tops of bars, tables, different surfaces and I have almost no marks…

OMG for the 1000th time, please stop using that old picture of Apple Maps from when it was in beta. That same map area looks completely different now. The platform certainly isn't perfect, but they've been doing a lot of work on it.

Not sure if I'm misunderstanding your comment, but Steve Jobs, nor NeXT created Objective-C. The language had been around for a while and was licensed by NeXT, not created by them.

o.0 racist much?

We have legacy applications in our office as well and this presents no issues with iPads. We install an iOS app called "Remote" that allows anyone to RDP into a terminal server that we have here and they can run the legacy apps to their hearts content. It has worked great for us so far. I'm also able to roam the…

I'm not sure if I lucked out and received an ExtraAwesome(tm) version of the iPhone 5, but I got mine pre-ordered on launch day and it is still completely mark/scuff free. I'm not necessarily dainty with it either and it doesn't have a case.

To be fair, that is an old image of Apple Maps from the beta period. That same map, with the same level of zoom looks totally different now, including the addition of "direction of travel" indicators. It's still got plenty of warts, but some of these comparisons and images are pretty old.

The new iPhone 5 has comparable specs and prices to the latest phones released from Samsung, et al. So basically your statement implies that all the latest new smartphones are overhyped garbage, but maybe that was your point.

This seems like a giant "non story." So the big shock (not) is that Foxconn is producing iPhone 5's in massive quantities with workers on long shifts with big production numbers to hit? This story could be about any iPhone produced in the past.

That has to be fake. If you look at the 1:00 minute mark and thereafter, the screen on the left side isn't uniform with the border and angles very close to the edge at the lower left corner with a pretty sharp angle that doesn't exist elsewhere on the bezel.

Yep, I remember that, but this patent refers specifically to a flexible, foldable, cover device with screens and input capabilities which would be different than a tablet device that opens and uses an internal screen for that.