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I believe they started the keynote with Siri. iOS 5.1 is bringing Siri to Japan.

On a similar note, Cisco predicts that "in 2015, wired devices will account for 46 percent of IP traffic, while Wi-Fi and mobile devices will account for 54 percent of IP traffic [globally]."

For more stats and figures from their Networking Index Forecast, check out http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/...

Although new mobile commerce solutions avoid paper receipts for emailed digital statements, I oould see this being used by many vendors in combination with payment technologies like Square to provide clients with paper statements.

I wonder how much of it has to do with their new 3d semiconductors [1]. These things seem ideal for dedicated servers and the like.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r...

Interestingly enough, DARPA is running a similar challenge (their prize is a lot better): http://www.darpa.mil/shredder_splash.aspx#Splash

1. High end WP7 device - Lumia 800. It looks promising.

2. MP3 Phone - An XpressMusic device. Some people don't care for data, and want a capable feature phone. Good camera, Awesome music interface. People have come to expect high-quality touchscreens - so if you plan on using a crappy resistive screen, don't. Build a slider with a comfortable hardware QWERTY instead.

3. Phone for the developing world. Ultra durable, ultra cheap. This market is the fastest growing, and building a device which greatest fits their needs will encourage adoption.

You can compare it to last year's Startup Lessons Learned here: http://www.slideshare.net/gueste94e4c/dropbox-startup-lesson...

I imagine that this display is merely a proof of concept. There aren't many electronic devices that use displays of that size, but perhaps 6.1" was the smallest that Toshiba could scale a 1600p display.

Or perhaps the electronics required to produce such dense pixels are still quite large, and whose rectangular dimensions wouldn't allow for displays of the same density without a wide bezel.

For further reading about Steve Jobs on education and innovation, I highly suggest "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing" from Wired 4.02 (February 1996, If I'm not mistaken).

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html

It just so happens that it is my favorite Wired article of all time.

The problem that Groupon has to overcome is making a sustainable business out of an unsustainable marketing model. In reality, daily deals aren't allowing brands to develop deeper, more engaging business to customer relationships.

However, with the proliferation of viral media and marketing and an increasingly social internet, they may find a niche of companies that truly benefit from the products Groupon offers.

This is exactly the rhetoric that Steve Jobs wanted Google to avoid, and perhaps he was exaggerating. But really, while there are many excellent products that Google has built, not all of them are capable of generating revenue and/or adoption of other Google products. That is the fat that Jobs was saying Google should trim.

Any decision that a company makes is an attempt to improve itself.

According to the article, Jobs recommended to Page that Google focus on five services - I'm curious as to which services HN thinks are core to Google's growth and success? Off the top of my head: Search, Android, Chrome, Plus and YouTube.