Actually it's not an official language at all. It's one of those colonial legacies to associate English with sophistication and education and power, so everyone strives to speak it. Private schools for example will ensure the whole curriculum is English based, whereas a lot of public schools only have english as a…

This is a great development, and something quite obvious really, but sadly it might just be another one of those things that some defense contractor got paid to develop so they could earn their fees, and won't see the light of day. If you think about it, if they could develop predator drones that can FLY and be…

3) Even if they manage to sell one official amazon case for every 10-12 kindles sold (putting an approx. 30$ price on the cover), they're breaking even easily. Those cases cost them pennies, and only 10% buying the official cover is an underestimation I think. So ultimately they will break even, or even make money…

On the money!! Use itunes for local play, rdio for subscription and discovery, and the google locker to access your library from anywhere takes care of all my needs. So far I hadn't used a locker service before because they are all too bloody expensive for a 40 gb collection. Don't know how goog does it for free but…

Look, i absolutely agree with you that google has brought nothing mind blowing or new to the table. But I don't think it makes it any more useful for the tech savvy consumer. Which is very different from if they'll actually make money ofcourse or if it will have popular appeal. They are missing a major label, their…