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I disagree.

This is entirely about UI.

This isn't the first time Apple's done it either.

This is just the first time that a major OEM has been so blatant.

Ask Meizu a thing or two about copying apple.

I don't know where you are getting your numbers for 'every other market,' but in Europe at least, iOS is beating Android as far as I can tell.

Mods, if you want to mod me down, do it because you have data that shows I am wrong, not because your inner fanboy is coming out. And for the record, I prefer Android because it is open. But I care about data more.

My job gave us these computers to work on. When they quit working, IT would just rip the corresponding part out of one from an adjacent desk.

OK so I missed last week's announcement by O2 that they have already started moving their 900MHz allocations to UMTS.

Lion will have TRIM support

Second, Microsoft has been trying to puff up the disappointing numbers by quoting units shipped to stores, and not units activated.

So, since Microsoft won't release hard numbers, we have to go with what we can find elsewhere; the fact that Microsoft doesn't want to talk about activations and return numbers is a good indicator that the anecdotal evidence is, if not 100% accurate, at least in the ballpark.

Of course, if your product only had lost 50% market share in the last year, and was down to 3%, and Android in the same time went from 2% to #1, you wouldn't want to give out the real numbers either.

With MeeGo they have the device in the works ready within short, who knows it might even be ready as promised since November last year and Elop delayed it for tactical reasons to make his switch to WP7 seem even more justified.

Not according to Engadget which actually played with a Meego tablet as opposed to breathlessly copying the press releases. Looks pre beta to me, not something ready to jump out the door.... Yeah, that's a tablet but I haven't seen an Meego phones in the wild. I guess there are some early prototypes available but no one has actually used one and lived to tell about it.

And they deserve to lose their jobs if they put ideology ahead of making products people will spend money to have.

Sorry to deflate your rant against developers, but if you look at the marketshare for Windows 7 mobile devices, it seems clear that platform is something consumers won't spend money to have.

Yah... I thought the same and was actively boycotting Sony since the Rootkit fiasco (I even had my 5 minute fame while fighting those bastards).

I did it until I wanted to buy an ebook reader. I waited and looked for all the options; I compared the Kindle vs the Sony eReader. Surprisingly, Sony's ereader is more open than Kindles (e.g. copy/paste PDFs, DOCs ePubs into SD Card [yes SD-card]) and the quality was quite good. Originally I waited for the Asus DR-900, which I saw at the ceBit 2010 (it was a good surprise when I was there... nobody gave attention but as a loyal asus customer.... i liked what I saw).

But after waiting for almost one year, this last christmas I decided to fuck it and go for it. I got a PRS 950SC and could not be happier. It is a really neat piece of hardware that has me completely hardwired into my books.

BTW... I was also surprised that product quality-wise Sony is not that bad... of course Asus is better =oP

...Android is vulnerable because it's open source, or so sayth the idiot CEO of Trend Micro...

Good thing we Europeans were warned before one of our member countries did something stupid...
Oh wait...

A server farm in a barn. About damn time! Now we just need a cloud in the air, and power through water, perhaps some storage in manure, and the future will be the past!

The future-in-the-past is now!

Interesting but patentable?
Google for

haptic shape memory

haptic display

and you will see it is not a sudden invention out of nowhere. The pixels used to be electromagnetically activated metal pillars whereas they are using shape memory alloy. Perhaps the part about how they are using the alloy mechanically is new?

NHK and Tokyo U. in 2008 develop touch panel/braille display

Harvard research

It talks about shape memory alloy in pixel sized units.. So did Microsoft get this idea from the Russian and 4 Japanese below?
Reference 12 is from a well known source in 2004:

[12] I. Poupyrev, T. Nashida, S. Maruyama, J. Rekimoto, and Y. Yamaji. Lumen: interactive visual and shape display for calm computing. In Proc of SIGGRAPH ’04, page 17. ACM.

Shape-changing interfaces encode information by modifying the shape of the device, using any of a number of different approaches. Pin-based displays use a matrix of elements that move up and down. Horev [7] describes how one might design a TactoPhone, in which the back of the phone is a morphing surface for displaying animated tactile icons. His video prototype shows how it might be used to provide location information. Lumen [12] is a 2D low-resolution pin- based display that controls the height and color of individual 'pixels'. Shape Memory Alloy provides noiseless, smooth and continuous actuation. Although notification through the haptic channel, SMA threads are fragile and are not very responsive.

...no official figures, no official declarations, no after-holiday-season data, no actual news.

The news, and I have to admit that this got deleted/de-emphasised from the submission, is that Windows phones have switched to buy one / get one free offers. I pointed out that the previous buy one get one free offer similar to the windows 7 phone BOGO offer one was for the KIN just before it's death and others, above, have pointed out that this tactic is used by Android, but only for old phones which have already been superceeded.

Does this mean that sales are struggling? I'm really not 100% sure; I definitely thought about putting it in my article title (you may be surprised to hear I am not a Microsoft lover) and ruled it out because I didn't have clear enough evidence. However, they clearly wanted more sales than they can achieve at full price. That's pretty embarrassing in the light of Apple and Google who always have problems with too much demand in the initial stages of a launch, even though, as linked in the article, they deliver many more phones at the beginning than Microsoft seems able to.

In the end, the idea that we should only trust Microsoft figures to find out Microsoft sales is ridiculous. We have to hear both sides of the story; the number going out from MS and the number really delivered to customers; before we can discuss failed sales. Going so openly for BOGO so early means that we really really need to analyse these numbers even more carefully. I doubt severely that the person getting the second phone will care about applications, so these become much closer to symbian phones where the base phone features are more important than the applications and so are not relevant competition for Apple and Google.

Unfortunately, lost in the submission, was a link to the exact same buy one get one free offer for Microsoft's KIN phone just before the product was pulled. This seems to be Microsoft's standard tactic in case where their sales just aren't what they are supposed to be. If you think that Apple would offer two for the price of one soon after launch; when people are typically queuing around the stores; you are deeply misguided.

Let me put this into context for you: This web-site shows you what the launch of the iphone vs. the palm pre looked like. The palm pre sold about 50,000 units in its first two days. People like you were saying then that the launch looked like a success even though there were supply problems. Fast forward 11 months, and people started calling it a complete flop. So, you say it's too soon to tell, I say, history is my guide. You can't topple giants with slack starts.

The timing of this sale is interesting not because of the defeat of the recent measure but the departure of the Ozzie, Allard, and Bach this year. Incidentally 75 million is the full amount of his sale. He's sold 49 million of the shares already. My opinion is that he's run out of people to blame or they were smart enough not to stick around to be blamed. It was disclosed that his bonus was cut in half this year because of the decline of Windows Mobile in the market place and the failure that was the Kin. After the dot com crash of 2000, MS stock has never passed $40 a share for his entire tenure, staying mostly in the mid 20s. Even though MS is highly profitable, the board may feel that MS cannot grow with him at the helm.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/17/reliability.study.has.apple.4th.place/

This study put 3 year failure rates of HP at 26%, and Dell at 18%...

While I agree with the TCO point in general, what data did you use to show that Dells are less reliable than HP?

I just googled it and top link said you are wrong:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/08/12/analysts.say.android.passing.ios.near.blackberry/
http://gorumors.com/crunchies/how-many-smartphones-does-nokia-sell-worldwide/

Hard drive, maybe. That can be easily replaced. I haven't seen a full system failure (motherboard, power supply, etc.) in years.

Ever heard of laptops? Some hardware failure stats for you http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/17/reliability.study.has.apple.4th.place/.

It depends on the laptop. Quite a lot.

The Dell laptops we get at work are replaced every 3 years - if they last even that long. My previous laptop went through 3 hard disks in 3 years. A colleague has already replaced the motherboard on a 1 year old M4400 twice, and another has replaced the motherboard once. My work M4400 has bunches of dead pixels but I'm living with it - the odds of Dell service breaking something else while swapping the display are far too high. In our small work group, I'd say the 1 year malfunction rates we see from Dell are comparable to the 3 year rates in the article you linked.

On the other hand, we have a Sony Vaio VGN-A117S laptop at home, which is used just as heavily as the work laptops, and does a lot of traveling (mostly bumpy road cottage trips). After more than seven years it's still running flawlessly. The only sign of degradation is that the battery life has dropped from 2.5 hours to below 2 hours. I know slashdot likes to give Sony the 2-minutes-hate regularly, but that Vaio is the most reliable laptop I've ever had, and even by today's standards it has one of the best displays (1920x1200, 17" LCD).

Hard drive, maybe. That can be easily replaced. I haven't seen a full system failure (motherboard, power supply, etc.) in years.

Ever heard of laptops? Some hardware failure stats for you.

More to the point, there is also some evidence that iPads are selling mostly to current Apple product owners (see here and here). So it could be that most of the sales are to Apple folks buying the latest Apple product. Some things to think about: do those people have a greater disposable income than most? Were those people ever likely to buy a Windows or Linux based netbook?

Besides: Hardly anyone but Mac fans buy iPads. That's how much impact they're going to have on the netbook market. None whatsoever.

Your entire post needs a citation about how Mac's are somehow magically better then any other laptop made, because I can smell the kool-aid reeking off you. Oh, to be fair though, here's my citation.

we get it... you have never used a mac and have never looked up any statistics comparing mac repairs to windows repairs. you dont have to rub it in. just because you dont know what your talking about doesnt make us bad people here.

And we get it, you've never used a Windows 7 and never looked up any statistics comparing Mac failure rates to Windows failure rates. You don't have to rub it.

The concept video for it had me very interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI
Not sure how they are going to drive any big consumer hardware with J Allard leaving http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/05/25/microsoft.overhauls.devices.group.to.face.iphone/

It seems clear that MS is going to WAIT for its hardware partners to build SOMETHING.. This is a loosing strategy these days, google at least boot strapped the Android smart phone market by releasing their Nexus one to show the vendors a reference of a "SUPER" phone with full features.

FYI one of the least mentioned benefits to iPhones and iPads is the complete lack of shovel ware / trial ware heaped on on the devices by Telcos and hardware vendors... It is clean and consistent right out of the box.

According to these guys Nvidia will have test drivers sometime this week. Since that is also when the spec becomes generally available, it seems safe to assume that the spec was written in fairly close consultation with at least the big graphics players.

I assume AMD's graphics drivers have also been in development, in concert with the spec, for some time, and will be available soonish, albeit with the usual lag after Nvidia. As for the various embedded guys, hard for me to say. I'm sure that having OpenGL ES made a proper subset, as opposed to a somewhat different near-subset, will be attractive for mobile developers, since it will make desktop to phone/console/embedded and back portability easier; but I don't know whether the embedded graphics hardware that is out there now can be updated with just drivers, or whether some 4.0 features will require an upcoming generation of silicon.

As for games, the first tech demo/fanboy wank publicity stunt will probably be available about 15 minutes after the Nvidia drivers. Widespread use might be a while.

Yeah, market share, Android sales are up 24% over what they were last year. In the last 3 years, Acer sale increased almost 40% pushing Apple down to 5th.

We can through out statistics all day long, bottom line, Apples current rate of growth in the last 5 years in the PC market is about close to 1% a year and even SHRUNK last year while Acer growth was 50%. OMG 50%! Of course YOU assume that since Dell went down, those people went to Apple, sorry, statistically, they went to Acer.
Statistics are like bikinis, what they reveal is suggestive, what they hide is critical.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135603/Analysts_pull_Mac_sales_numbers_out_of_a_hat.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/07/15/idc.prelim.q2.2009/
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/acer-eclipsed-dell-and-apple/

We have been hearing for 10 years how awesome Apple is and how much inroads they are making into the home computing market but they only have 8% total after 10 years. 10 years is a LOOOONG time in the computer industry and going from 2-8 in 10 years is not a fast paced sprintto the finish by any stretch of the imagination and as glorified as you seem to think.

What's Mac's share? 10%?

More like 6.4%.

Lenovo got 8.8%. I had never heard of Lenovo until now.

Having a quick look at the Lenovo web site, they have the same computers as IBM branded machines we have here in the UK. I guess they use the IBM branding instead of Lenovo here.

The information I saw stated that they change the antenna priority from 'strongest signal' to 'most reliable', whatever that means. This change was introduced in iOS4. The same issues have also been reported in iPhone 3G and 3GS, which would seem to reinforce the idea that this may be software related. Although having the antenna's outside the case may exaggerate the issue, it does not appear to be the primary factor.

iPhone 3G: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsfgAXmK0b4

iPhone 3GS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ztRup6cLs

General YouTube results:

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...gnal+ios4&aq=f

Additionally, here is the link that I first found reporting the antenna priority change:

http://www.electronista.com/articles...rly.next.week/

It will be interesting to see how Apple handles this. I recall they had similar issues with frequencies on the first generation iPhone.

If the issue was strictly related to the external antenna's, we wouldn't be seeing this issue pop up once 3G and 3GS users upgraded to iOS4.

Taiwan companies making tablets are being "persuaded" by Intel and Microsoft to promote x86-based tablets over ARM models, according to a controversial claim today. Both ASUS and MSI had made it clear they were producing Tegra-based ARM tablets with Android at the start of the year but have suddenly shifted much of their attention for the Computex show in early June to systems using Intel's chips, usually Atom processors, with Windows 7 as the OS. ARM-based tablets would still be at the expo and ship in the summer but would be secondary focuses at most.

"A DS even lets you play local MP3 files.....You just blew my mind. I've had a Nintendo DS for several years without this ability ... in fact, I don't even thing there's a way to store data of that size on my DS. What on earth are you talking about?"

I was so going to moderate you up until I read that. The Nintendo MP3 Player has been out for 4 years. Games 'n' Music is (or was) available at Walmart and still available online.

"Seriously? People belly-up to pay top dollar for quality and components that come with an Apple Product and then you quibble when Google offers something at a similar price with possibly better quality and components?"

Apple google is not. Apple has a 30 yr history of charging top dollar for premium products. Google doesn't. Horrible comparison, might as well throw in some car analogies and ask why Daewoos don't sell for Ferrari prices (yes, I did just compare Google to Daewoo).

While I do agree JerkFace is making an awful lot of assumptions without any links or references to back up his quotes, some of his points are valid. However all he has to do is look at the usefulness of Android cellphones when they lack an internet connection to see it's still fully functional, and that's a cellphone that is meant to have some sort of internet reception 24/7.

JerkFace did get one thing wrong: "4. The $300-$400 price point... Chrome OS at least had a chance in hell before I read this... There are Windows 7 netbooks at $280 "

You failed to do your homework JerkFace. While you correctly quoted the Google CEO of saying "$300-$400", you conveniently left off the rest "..that all the cost will be associated with the hardware, since the OS itself is free." With a free OS there is no Windows device that can compete on price.

For downloading I have no idea where I can download and install Office, Quicken, or TurboTax legally.

Office, Quicken, TurboTax. HTH!

And sleep is not instant on.

"Yeah, I asked for a shaggy dog, but I didn't mean that shaggy."

Come on. What do you think the iPad does when you "turn it off"? It goes to sleep, just like the iPhone and iPod (and Android devices, and most smartphones and PDAs). When it has to do a full reboot, it takes around 15 seconds, which is nothing special.

I have had countless times I've gone to boot a Netbook or Laptop that I left in sleep for a week only to find the battery had completely drained.

Heh, my Mac laptop did that even if I shut it down completely. I think that's a "feature" of the battery.

I have yet to find a Netbook with a 10 hour battery life

Try this one, this one, or this one.

Hell, even my full-sized laptop will run for 6 hours on a charge.

AT&T just announced their 3G microcell. According to Electronista it is $150.

No, that was before it was officially announced, with prices and details. Everyone figured it'll be closer to $1000 based on rumors of such device coming from Apple. It was still when everyone thought it would actually have a good hardware, open, as in more closer to OSX than iPhone, OS and good features.

It wasn't anything like that, but useless device, which is overpriced for what it has actually has or does.

And that is why, for example, that pre-orders in Norway, and especially orders for the most expensive version, are overwhelming.

Your comment has now been entered in the world-famous "iPad failure prediction" contest, to take it's place in history with the now-laughable iPod and iPhone "failure prediction" comments we all enjoy trotting out on /.

Now go back and contemplate why Linux still has, after nearly 20 years, a marketshare that is 5 times less than OS X's, and why Android is well on its way to becoming an unmitigated clusterfuck of increasingly incompatible versions and devices.

According to this article, "Apps would also have to go through a "service based delivery" system such as Windows Marketplace to install, reversing a years-old ability to download apps through the browser or other sources.". If that's true, I don't care how much of an improvement the interface is - I want no part of it.

Among other things, that would require you buy a data plan. As if PDA cellphone's couldn't possibly be useful without one. Sure, sure, you could just buy a dedicated PDA, but those are becoming increasingly difficult to find (certainly Palm doesn't make them anymore) and something does have to be said for device consolidation. I'd rather have a single HTC Touch Pro2 in my pocket than trying to stuff a cellphone, a PDA, a camera and a GPS unit into my pockets.

Further, even if you do have a data plan, requiring all apps be sold through the Windows Marketplace will give Microsoft an unreasonable amount of control. Remember Google Voice for the iPhone? Apple denied Google the right to offer it through their App Store because it competed with their own product lineup. What's to stop Microsoft from doing the same thing?

And what about apps that are no longer maintained? There's an SNES emulator available for Windows Mobile and a TI-89 emulator available for Windows Mobile. Both, near as I can tell, haven't been maintained since Windows Mobile 5 or so. If those apps didn't work in Windows Mobile 7 because the API changed, that's one thing, but it would be unfortunate if the only thing preventing those apps from being installed was the fact that Microsoft wanted more direct control. It's like being rejected for a job interview not because you're skills were insufficient but because you didn't put the right buzzwords on your resume to get past the regex HR was using to filter out resumes. Because you said PHP on your resume instead of PHP5.

But then again, it seems unlikely Microsoft would let anyone offer an SNES emulator or TI-89 emulator through their app store, even if they were to be actively maintaining it, on the basis that it encourages piracy or some such.

Why on earth won't it support multitasking when the previous versions have done so quite well? That's like asking whether Windows 7 will support these newfangled things called mice. Multitasking is not even a feature to ask about unless you're coming from the Apple camp.

That sounds completely reasonable, until you google "windows mobile 7 multitasking".
Here's what I got: one, two, three. That last one is official.

MS is attempting to get into the market by doing what they used to do best: Cloning. This means get every last bit of detail into their version of the product, *including* the drawbacks. They can fix this in later versions, and in the meantime they can say "what? it's not like the competition supports it...". This industry is absurd.

It does make me wonder if it would just be cost prohibitively expensive to put in a radio that supports ALL used frequency band ranges. That way, you have a phone that will truly work on any network, with any provider, without having to buy a new handset.

I've heard rumor of a Qualcomm chip due out this summer that is supposed to support GSM, HSPA, HSPA+ and some CDMA stuff. A quick google turned up the following:

Qualcomm today updated its MDM family of cellular chipsets with some of the first anywhere to support dual, advanced 3G and 4G formats. The MSM7630 supports GSM, HSPA and HSPA+ standards but will also work on CDMA phone networks and support up to EVDO Revision B for 3G on those services. The addition would let a phone work on a CDMA carrier like Sprint or Verizon but still work with AT&T or T-Mobile and roam at speeds of up to 21Mbps on networks from Rogers, other international carriers, and eventually T-Mobile USA.

From http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/11/12/possible.verizon.iphone.candidates/

The iPod came out in late 2001. The iPad (Fujitsu version) came out in 2002. It was a real product. I don't think you can call Fujitsu a trademark troll here.

How about original linkage? : http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/09/04/microsoft.sued.over.wga
The lawsuit is for $5 million for the whole class. You do the math and tell me if this is to benefit the lawyers or the end users. This isn't about MS, it's about lawyers making money. I have a feeling there will be a lot of misplaced outrage in these comments.

Also, it was a high priority update, _not_ a critical security update. Inflammatory summaries again.

"So how long till it makes its way to Droid - if ever at all? I don't mind exclusive deals, but it'd be nice if they wore off after a few months."

Exclusive deals? Where in the article did it say they signed an exclusive contract with Apple?

The reason you won't find this on the Droid now or ever is number of devices and number of people paying for software. As of Dec 2009 the iPhone has had 78 million sales, and this number does not include millions of iPod Touch out there. Compare that to 800,000 Droids sold and it's obvious why it's unlikely any company would put any effort into developing software for Droids, it's a 100-to-1 ratio, 1%.

Would you make a program for 1% of the platforms, or 99%?

And that's why Droid has failed. Developers see $$$$ in iPhone and Touch, so they make the software, and the consumers see all the software on the iPhone so they buy iPhones.

It's a repeat of the 90s with Gameboy vs Sega Game Gear.

And let's not forget hardware failures like the Droid only having 256mb for apps. 1999 called, they want their storage size back. iPhone started with a minium of 4gb, and the latest 3GS is only offered in 16 or 32gb varieties, which is needed when games like The Settlers want 300+ mb.

I'm sorry I didn't mean to turn this into a anti-Droid rant, but when you see everyone and their 1 yr old baby with an iPhone and you stubbornly turn around and buy the opposite, don't be surprised when the developers create software for the phone that everyone and their baby bought.

People drilled Apple for not having feature x, y and z. Now after several OS updates and all the features added, people still drill Apple for not having them from day one!

Sorry but the iPhone is the better smartphone. Don't take my word for it, but Nokia's.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10423779-17.html
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/01/04/nokia.claims.new.hardware.and.services.key/
http://www.techmeme.com/100104/p17

The question is, in 2011 will they match where Apple is now, or where Apple will be then?

oh yeah, people are just gobbling up the zune~

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/01/27/zune-sales-down-54-percent-will-microsoft-fight-to-save-its-digital-music-player/

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/07/30/zune.sales.crashing/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune

MS has many failed hardware product. Remember the windows printer?...probably not.

Nvidia has a license to make QPI-based chips. whether they have any real plans to do so.....

No they do not. That was the reason they bailed out of the controller market.
Intel licensed SLI from Nvidia for their QPI based Core processors.

SANTA CLARA, CA—AUGUST 10, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation today announced that Intel Corporation, and the world’s other leading motherboard manufacturers, including ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI, have all licensed NVIDIA® SLI® technology for inclusion on their Intel® P55 Express Chipset-based motherboards designed for the upcoming Intel® Core i7 and i5 processor in the LGA1156 socket.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/12/16/ftc.ignores.amd.settlement.in.intel.suit/

The FTC notes the lawsuit is not a direct antitrust case and only accuses Intel of violating competition and monopoly rules under Section 5 of the FTC Act. As a result, it prevents other companies from 'piggybacking' on the lawsuit by using an antitrust decision to demand triple damages in any private cases. In pursuing the complaint, the government commission is hoping to ban Intel from engaging in unfair bundling, pricing and exclusionary licenses and could, if victorious, force Intel to allow NVIDIA chipsets like the GeForce 9400M and Ion for Core i3, i5 and i7 processors as well as future Atom designs. Companies like Apple have faced the possibility of mandatory major reworkings of their computers to continue using modern processors.

Mod down parent. Nokia's R & D dept is shrinking while Apple's is small, but generates a much larger profit relative to the R & D investment.

Seth

I'm not disagreeing with you here.

It was last year. It turned out better than we could have hoped for.

Not only did Google win the ability to attach any equipment to the network (itself as huge a win as the Carterphone decision), but the biggest deal - a nationwide block of 700MHz spectrum was not won by any bidder and still remains available.

So if the incumbent providers won't deal with Google fairly, Google can buy a single block of spectrum and give us what we want - truly open communications capability. Google has the cash to buy it, and the history to back up that if a provider won't give them what they need to meet our desires they'll go around them.

/btw, it's "jive," not "jibe". Jibe is a sailing term that means "To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a vessel to the other while sailing before the wind so as to sail on the opposite tack." cite. In the colloquial Jibe! is a command to shift the sails so as to change direction promptly. It is in no way synonymous with "jive" which in this sense would mean "agree".

According to rumors, a CDMA/GSM phone could be in the works

http://news.cnet.com/Study-File-sharing-boosts-music-sales/2100-1023_3-898813.html

http://nme.com/news/44688

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=25462&mode=threaded&pid=225929

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/01/20/dutch.study.file.sharing/

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090828/0444096038.shtml

Actually there was one study that showed the opposite -- it was done by the IFPI. It took all of one minute on Google to find those citations.

Just go to Japan and eat this :)

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/10/21/microsoft.promos.win.7.with.bk.deal/

They finally found a way to talk to me :)

Uh, Nokia just won the case against IDCC.

Apple had licensed the patents from IDCC, that's why Nokia want the money.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/10/17/itc.finds.nokia.not.violating.3g.patents/