In addition to the whole patent issue, it's not the function, it's HOW the function is accomplished. HTC is testing an alternative way to do it, that's what this article is about... which raises the question, if they can come up with a legal way to do it, why steal in the first place? It's not the hardest thing in the…

This is one of the many reasons I can't personally be bothered with all this "social" nonsense (and get off my lawn while we're on the subject). Specifically, expressing an interest in (hitting the "like" button) something does not implicitly mean I waive my rights to compensation should my image or actions be used in…

It was in a James Bond movie. Additionally Top Gear tried to do this and failed a few years ago... doesn't mean it's not a CRAZY impressive stunt, but it's not the first time and that's sort of key when you claim something is the first time...

yea, I'm sure thats it

So he's a jerk... like music execs who try to bully the internet into what they want (don't know if it's true in this case, just looking at history). I don't see how this can turn out badly regardless who loses in the end if this is all true.

So, if they get their insanity passed into law, can we then shut down their internet, so they can't check up on the rest of the world and see if anyone else is pirating? If they say "these IP's are pirating" then they get slapped with a fine and some jail time for execs chosen at random for violating their internet…

No, please see reference.

Google TV RUNS netflix and pandora apps. It's essentially a TV interface OS, which (as pointed out by the article) is what manufacturers have been investing in their own version of for years... if every TV comes with google TV (which judging by reviews, sales, and partners jumping ship as fast as they can, is a total…

Yea, blu-ray is better than streaming for the movie, but for the consumer (NOT a perfectionist, just a consumer) streaming is WAY better. Bring price into the equation. $9 a month for thousands of movies, or $16+ for one... plus hardware to play it, plus a screen good enough to enjoy the quality, plus a sound system…

This.

If only it were true that you could stick to the legacy mode... the start menu has been replaced with a settings menu... fundamentally metro replaces the start menu which means you can't get away from it and run it in "classic" mode. this means everyone who's used to windows (read almost everyone everywhere ever) is…

It runs like a pig on high end systems.

I'm going to guess they slapped a BIG samsung logo on the back of it as well so in court when one gets held up the lawyers just have to read...

They produce particles on a scale of 1 at a time. You need quite a few more to cover that much area.

Choice = good. but choices that are crap when there are better alternatives just make for fragmentation which causes everyone to suffer in the end. Yes more choices, but we can happily let the bad ones die and blow away, that makes room for more good choices down the road.

Because here you can't cancel it, and it's in the Terms of Service that you must have a data plan with certain types of devices (most notably the iPhone). If you sign up for a plan with a dumb phone and swap the sim into an iPhone they will detect that the sim is in an iPhone, all iPhones must have a data plan,…

Down the road they may tack on a data plan. They can tell the model of phone that a sim is in, and often that's enough. For example you can't have an iPhone on AT&T without a data plan, so if you swap a sim into an iPhone they will eventually warn you then add a data plan to your contract... In the article and TOS.

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But the web is always changing. Sites need to keep pace or get left behind, just like everything else in technology. They don't make much software that works on windows 95 any more, and they won't be making many websites that use flash in a few years. Transitional periods can be rough when content creators and…

You never get a massive change, like killing of a ubiquitous technology like flash, quickly. Look at the adoption of USB over serial/ps2. And CD's over floppy discs, etc. Flash will be with us for a LONG time still, but this is the first major event of it's decline. People can blame iDevices, but fact is even though…