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by devx 13y ago
This is why choosing WP over Android was such a catastrophic decision for Nokia. Nokia used to have 70 percent of the smartphone market in India. But because of Android, they've lost almost all of their market there. If they would&
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by devx 13y ago
Ironically, it was because of his disruption innovation theory why I thought immediately after I saw the iPhone that it's going to be disruptive for the whole smartphone industry, and also why I thought Nokia and RIM will be the las
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by devx 13y ago
Is it the "most transparent administration in history" yet?
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Just How Inept Was Nokia's Board?(forbes.com)
4 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
I'm not sure how it overlaps with other laws, but at least there's this about CALEA: > not only does the law speak about encryption, but it specifically protects the right of companies to build strong encryption for which only
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by devx 13y ago
It's not a useless bill at all. I don't know about that specific provision, but this is actually the most aggressive anti-NSA bill yet. Its main purpose is actually to repeal both the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act in f
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by devx 13y ago
BBM is at a dead end. The company behind it is getting bankrupt, and will soon probably try to sell its assets anyway (if they can), which means the survival of BBM will be on the hands of whoever buys it. Since Google failed to buy Whatsap
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by devx 13y ago
Can we have that full audit of the Fed yet?
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by devx 13y ago
Why autonomous war machines shouldn't be allowed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYYx_im5QI
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by devx 13y ago
I find the Mailchimp UI very confusing. I always forget where to get my API key for example. So many important items seem to be hidden in hidden menus and submenus.
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by devx 13y ago
We barely even understand how quantum entanglement works, let alone being so sure that this sort of method for cryptography couldn't be bypassed in the future.
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by devx 13y ago
> You can also use Touch ID instead of entering your Apple ID password to purchase content from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store. You will be asked to scan your fingerprint with each purchase. How does this work exactly, if
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by devx 13y ago
The problem with fingerprints is that you only have so many of them, and you really don't want them to get compromised, because you can't change them. If your main fingerprints get stolen, that pretty much means you'll never
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Privacy in the Digital Economy: Requiem or Renaissance?(privacysurgeon.org)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft claims Android constitutes "predatory pricing"(fsfe.org)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
The RSA CTO's answers are hilarious. He can't really be that clueless as the CTO of a security firm, can he? That would be incredibly embarrassing in itself (which it already is), but the alternative is even worse (choosing the on
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by devx 13y ago
Go where the puck is going, not where it was, AMD!
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by devx 13y ago
It's pretty irrelevant if CM "jumps the shark", and my guess is they will do that anyway, because they have no choice, if they want to play along with OEM's, so I wouldn't blame them for it. So the solution is simpl
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by devx 13y ago
They base their entire "Apple has done it again" argument on the fact that the stores "sold out"? There were already reports earlier that Apple will have very limited supply of iPhone 5S, so that doesn't say much.
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by devx 13y ago
Sounds like Rust will be a better solution for those types of problems.
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by devx 13y ago
It was more of a desperate move than a well-planned move that needed to happen. Ballmer cared more about not wanting Nokia to go Android, than about them needing Nokia's hardware division and 35,000 employees.
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by devx 13y ago
$15 billion whole, so I think the mobile division was worth at least 2x that, especially if we consider that when acquired, companies usually pay a premium over the market price. Motorola was like $9 billion at the market price when Google
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by devx 13y ago
The article was more or less okay, until he blew it with this: > More likely, since it’s an iOS device, Apple will call this gizmo an iSomething. It will be impossibly strong and light — under a pound — the battery will last for days,
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by devx 13y ago
Scott Forestall must be laughing his ass off. His style may have been "obsolete", but at least he did it right. The new UI is trying hard to be "flatter", but it looks like it's done by an amateur.
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by devx 13y ago
Google should buy the ECC patents from Blackberry and set them free. They probably want some of their patents anyway, and Blackberry is about to sell them very soon.
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by devx 13y ago
If you press the Google Drive button in QuickOffice, it will basically show you what you have in Google Drive, just like the Google Drive app. But yeah, not sure why they're keeping the Drive app around then.
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by devx 13y ago
More like it was bound to happen just about now, and a year after they purchased it.
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by devx 13y ago
What does "catch-up" mean? Will they ever be as powerful as advanced as the hardcore cares are today (2013)? Yes, they will be. Will they catch-up to hardcore games of the future (2023?). No they won't. But that's irre
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by devx 13y ago
What about Go support for Qt native?
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by devx 13y ago
You make it sound as if that's some original thought from Apple headquarters. I've seen that comparison for years in blog comments. I swear sometimes it felt that even Steve Jobs got his talking points from blog comments.

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