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Why would they do that and why would they run a more recent version of WebOS? The Chinese will put the (free) OS with the most apps available, WebOS has a long way to go to get there... Not even mentioning that all the major silicon vendors are shipping with Android BSPs these days..

Yes, that was true for Meego as well and see where it got them...

Am I the only one that fails to see what is so special about a donut shaped 4 storey building in a park like setting?

when I read the headline, I thought they meant content, not money. I was ready to mail them a few harddrives with worthy "stuff"...

"Be sure to watch a video without ads" - well I'd love to but I did not find the "watch without ads" button in the Youtube UI.

As long as all the videos I come across still ask me to install Flash although I have activated the html5 thing, I fail to see the point...

And I always thought "Allem" was a special turkish spice that they sprinkle on top at the end

Oh no, not again

"...Norisuna had a comparison table that showed the Pandaboard cloud (OMAP4 @ 1GHz – 12 Cores) uses 4x times space and 5x less power (50W vs. 257 W) than a Xeon 1.8GHz Quad Core server with about the same amount of processing power and memory (6GB vs. 8GB)...."

any data to back up that claim? Is that just raw MHz or real benchmarks?

So Richard Stallman would be OK to use a PC with a closed source BIOS as long as there is no way to update it?

nice thing, but instead of (re-)heating your home all the time "to the point", it makes much more sense to keep it at (almost) constant temperature by not letting the heat escape, which means good insulation.

it's a design patent. I don't think the patent examiners are supposed to watch all of Youtube to maybe find a similar device dated 16 years back.

But since it's known now, Apple can just stop, pay everybody's legal bills and be done with it...

Honeycomb emulator is also much slower because more parts of the UI use 3d acceleration which the emulator has to, well, emulate in SW

CPU is an OMAP4, dual core A9 at 2x1GHz. The CPU is pretty good and can e.g. encode/decode full HD easily. RAM should be 1GB which the new iPhone is rumoured to come out with, so it should be good for 2-3 years...

In total the HW platform is pretty solid, it's not a relabeled cheap Chinese tablet...

From a source that was at Nokia/Meego: "Summary: Intel has joined LiMo project. Samsung has renamed it to save Intel's face. Qt is abandoned and KDE too is hurt unless . . . unless HTC takes MeeGo!"

it's not FFmpeg that would need to pay the fees, it would be FFmpeg users. A lot of codec royalties are tied to devices sold or hours of content streamed

Nokia tried that with "the best open source community money can buy" and failed in the end, what makes you think HP will succeed? You cannot increase market share with hardware that only "community" and geeks buy...

1) grab the patents

2) sell the non-smartphone business to ZTE or Huawei

3) try to make (android) smartphones and fail the same as non-google motorola did, then realize it does not matter because of 1)

UPDATE: 4) sell the Motorola brand name to ZTE or Huawei

Apple has no reason to buy a carrier as it has no reason to buy a power company in a country with frequent power outages.

Unless they have a magic way to make 3G/4g work for everybody and everywhere, they will just pick up all the consumer rage that at the moment AT&T and the likes are shielding away from them.

in short: European patents in Düsseldorf, Germany trump US patents in Marshall, TX

Flash runs as a plugin inside the webkit based browser and webkit is native code in android since day one.

that also means that you cannot play local .SWF files on android unless you manage to get them inside a web page...

what other option is there? To mandate browser source code that implements cookies in a lawful way?

And where is the broad coalition of "don't be evil" browser vendors and websites that proudly claims "we don't track you" and that would have made such laws unnecessary?

websites had that coming for a long time.

It's a common industry pattern to overdo things and then get regulated.

take e.g german gas stations, they went from adjusting their prices occasionally (e.g. when the oil price changed) to price changes several times per day in order to gouge the most out of the customers. Now, they will get regulated and only be allowed to change their price once per day... they basically asked for it.

Same for international roaming fees in Europe, from insane to regulated..

Cookies were used to tracks people's shopping carts and that was fine, same for a site to recognize you. Nowadays they are used to identify and track you in global ad networks etc.. again, asking for it..

no, pages should not play audio unless users asks for it...

yes, this kind of people are part of why Attila leaves MPlayer...

like for the GMA500? :)

There is an android app that does that: http://pgpmanager.blogspot.com/

Somehow I fail to see how this is "shocking" news. India is just kindly asking RIM to provide to them what they did provide to the US and other western governments for years, namely the ability to snoop on the message traffic.

And of course a real criminal or terrorist can just use any encrypted IMAP server in a remote location to exchange messages in secrecy, completely bypassing RIM and the snooping effort...

Apple is not fighting jailbreaking, at least not with more than token efforts to appease people like AT&T and other carriers. All iPhones revisions out there can be jailbroken and can be unlocked and there is a huge number of iPhones out there in countries that don't even have an official iPhone carrier.

Apple collects a nice sum of money for every iPhone sold and does not care whether that was carrier subsidized and whether said carrier now makes a loss due to the fact that the phone was jailbroken and unlocked and used one a different network.

CE companies business is not to sue others that might use their patents by default. Most companies still try to sell products. Companies build up patent portfolios as a defensive weapon mostly.

The best position to sue for patents is when you actually dont't sell products, that way nobody can sue you back for anything.

Patent fights between CE manufacturers will most likely get very ugly and apart from the bad publicity I fail to see what Apple has to gain here...

Does anybody remember the time when articles on the web were mostly single page (and you scrolled down to read them - hey mice even have scroll wheels for that)? Then the ads people figured that they can cram in more ads by splitting articles every 10 lines and reading them became totally annoying. If Apple can force the content back to single page, I am all for it...