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Quote: Originally Posted by Realistic The consumer already controls their phone number. Once you have a phone number you can get it ported to whatever phone you own. It is the law, it may cost you a nominal fee to get the number...

Say this takes off. Who controls your phone #? We need to let end users have control of their phone numbers else it will be used as a wedge by carriers against competitive services.

One is good. Two is better. Three must be best. Can't wait for triple screen!

"following a complaint from Google earlier this week that Microsoft's Bing search engine was appropriating its search results to improve its own." Hahaha. I noticed bing search results are improving. Using it now as my...

Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Am I the only that thinks 16% is low for the Tab and 2% high for the iPad? My reasoning is 1) people likely know the iPad much better as a product before buying, and 2) iOS for iPad, the SDK and...

Where's the "IT guy" here that said they'd sell like hotcakes because they fit in cargo pant pockets and all his buds were panting for them?

Almost all CEOs are ego-mainiacs. Jobs makes their performances look like dog crap at a salary of $1/yr. so it hurts their feelings. I can see them at board of directors meetings getting reamed about their salary vs. performance. The...

Quote: Originally Posted by bigpics Everybody keeps talking about facebook being "a platform," and we all know they have 600 M users - with a high percentage active, and with pretensions to extend and monetize this incredible...

Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism With a glass front I’d think it would be trival to add a rolling LED light like they have on Macs when in sleep mode. Hell, on MBPs the rolling LED light is behind aluminium milled thin enough that...

Common now! How about the country show some concerns for the environment and its people instead of scapegoating some foreign corporation that has little control over the situation. If apple ever threatened to pull contracts out of China...