robert_nsu

I agree, although I wish I had a nickel for every article out there that heralds social networking as nails in the coffin of email.

It's interesting to hear that. I believe it was Bill Gates' advice that led Ballmer and co. to negotiate a buyout of Skype and comments were made in the same vein then as well.

This book is actually very easy for me to read. This may explain why I never got along with my calculus teachers.

Weren't Facebook engineers behind the Cassandra project and HipHop?

Oh, and they have a list of projects their devs contribute to here: https://developers.facebook.com/opensource/

I think that Windows Phone 8 will require a new generation of hardware to run properly. Mango will be supported on current handsets according to the webcast.

I'm a little lost on your comment. If Microsoft is embracing and extending mobile phone technology (and the carriers that provide them), how would they ever go about extinguishing something as entrenched as this?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this article was a knee jerk reaction to something somewhat related to the Microsoft/Skype deal. AFAIK, the stable release of Moonlight targets Silverlight 3. Side note: Skype has always been a bit weak on Linux in my experience.

I'm not sure how much money they have made over the time before Apple imposed a 30% fee on book sales and the like, but I fail to see why they couldn't port their app to another platform. You know, instead of kicking the sand around and calling it quits.