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Cisco alone has 53% of the overall worldwide switching and routing market. If you cannot get their equipment to work, it's not their fault. Maybe you could hire someone who know's what they're doing?

No, for some reason news about a cheese company evading tax would not make it onto a technology site?

Don't you understand why?

Well, I wouldn't call Google a cheese company, but Slashdot sure as hell didn't report on their Italian tax problems ( https://beta.finance.yahoo.com... / http://www.telecompaper.com/ne...). Funny how the numbers quoted are almost the same as in this case.

The reason Netherlands did not sign yet seem to have logistical/bureaucratical reasons. They will probably sign soon. Seem for Spain and Germany.

Source (in Dutch)

But all they have to do is try one in the store to realize it is not true. We all see more tab ads on tv then iPad ads. We all have more opportunity to use one in the store. Their sales are still pitiful.

Pitiful? They're 40% of the market, whittling the iPad down from 94% to 61%, in just 1 year. Sales are actually quite good, if you step outside the Reality Distortion Field...

You seem to mistake the business world as a happy-go-lucky place where anyone gives a fuck what nerds think makes a "solid product."

Given the choice, I'd rather just do business with someone else. Especially someone else with the superior platform Not to mention the fact that in the "business world", the market agrees with me that Microsoft just plain sucks.

Sorry that Windows is still eating the lunch of your preferred platform.

Not really.

How them grapes taste?

Also :
-Hadopi have severed the link between them and TMG, as a result of this hack
Source: telecompaper + the French media
(and it was their only source of monitoring)

-the CNIL decided to investigate TMG due to this lack of protection of what may be personnal data.

-TMG decided to sue the hacker, but then removed the complaint

Larry King: How do we draw the line - draw the line between protection of national security, obviously the government's need to obtain intelligence data, and the protection of civil liberties, particularly the sanctity of my home? You've got no right to come into my home!

Get out of my home! Get out of my cellphone! See dutch police use stealth sms.

Carla Dean: Well, who's gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?

Looks like nobody is monitoring what Obama is doing.
Govts all over the world - just remember the end of the movie - the bad guys all die because of their greed for power and control.
Obama - just wait until you find a monitoring device in your own bedroom. Then it will not be so funny anymore.

And for what purpose? And most important, how in God's green earth it got into President Obama's bedroom! Listen people, everyone knows where this is going. If this was a legit op, and I can't imagine how it could be, then so be it. But if this was someone's unilateral wet dream, then that someone is going to prison.

I did a little googling, hoping to shoot down that $10 manufacturing overhead figure. No hard figures are published for the iPhone (which is not a laptop, damnit) but figures for the Droid tend to back you up.

Don't celebrate yet. Your estimate for materials cost for a smart phone are way off. Like by a factor of 2.5:

http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?cid=713312

And if you really think a laptop doesn't use any more parts than a smart phone, you live in a different plane of reality from me, so I won't bother to argue with you.

Now I'm skeptical even of the $100 wholesale price cited in TFA. Probably going to be more like $200. Which means it will retail for twice that. Which means it won't be a lot cheaper than Atom-based netbooks. Which makes me skeptical that anybody will buy it.

Seems like US ISPs should come to France to see how to do it right:

1. Distribute an ADSL modem/WiFi box for free to all your customers so they can benefit from WiFi in their own home. Use this box to provide extra services to your customers and to differentiate yourself from competitors. WiFi is but the first service; you can add: printer server, 100Mbps network switch, etc. but more importantly revenue enhancing services like pay-TV-channels, phone calls (to cell phones or international destinations), video on demand, etc.
2. Let the user secure his WiFi network using WPA.
3. Add a separate WiFi network that works as an open WiFi hotspot. There you go: millions of hotspots at no extra cost. No need to negotiate with every cafe or bookseller for the permission to install your hotspots; no need to pay them.
4. Require one to log in on an SSL web page to gain access. This restricts access to only your customers, but using any device WiFi+web-capable: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux computers alike; iPods, phones, etc. No nasty software to install...
5. Only allow customers who enabled their open hotspot to use other customers' hotspots. It's tit for tat and provides incentive to enable the service.
6. Cap the bandwidth that can be used from the open WiFi hotspot (to 1Mbps, a small fraction of what your customers normally get, right?) so customers don't mind leaving it open.
7. Give users of the open hotspot an identifiable IP address so there's no issue with the RIAA suing the wrong person.
8. Let non-customers use your brand new hotspots to subscribe to your ADSL service and immediately get access to the net.