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rospaya
16y ago
Almost any phone can browse the web today.
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rospaya
16y ago
You are presuming the stock market is somehow fair.
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16y ago
DMB has never been very succesful outside of North America. My grandma would know who Bon Jovi is, but wouldn't have a clue about DMB, as wouldn't my parents. Not scientific, but some music doesn't translate across the pond.
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rospaya
16y ago
> the foundation was trying to raise money for other projects and programs that aren't the encyclopedia itself. Any info on that?
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rospaya
16y ago
Depends on the smartphone. My Nokia E51, E71 survived hell, not to mention the ones before that. I still have the very first Microsoft Windows Mobile smartphone in working condition, as a couple of old Symbian Nokias. That said, I wouldn't
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rospaya
16y ago
This reminds me about the death of SMS. MMS had multimedia attachments, it was practical and powerful. But analysts forgot that one was for sending pictures and the other for text, and that one isn't replaceable by the other. The same thing
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16y ago
"Assange made them available to the Guardian and four other newspapers: the New York Times, Der Spiegel in Germany, Le Monde in France and El País in Spain. All five plan to publish extracts from the most significant cables, but have decide
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16y ago
As I reviewed the Blackberry Torch one thing was obvious: RIM wants an iPhone like device for the average customer, but still holds the e-mail/business market and doesn't want to lose it. I wonder what would happen if RIM bought Palm back i
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rospaya
16y ago
Spammers rejoice.
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rospaya
16y ago
So I guess the rent is too damn high?
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rospaya
16y ago
Your comment is from a developer perspective, while zoiker was talking as a user. I agree with both of you, but there is a difference.
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16y ago
You're talking about Apple, which has less than 10% of the worldwide computer market. What about Dell and HP? Currently the software commands the hardware, not the other way around. A lot of businesses depend on MS Windows and lots of other
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16y ago
> Why not have both and see what the market decides? Kin was killed after six weeks, the market decided it was crap and only a couple were sold. Actually not so much that the Kin itself is bad, but carriers weren't enthusiastic enough,
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16y ago
> Anyway, we weren't allowed to visit again until '01. When we did, we attempted to visit Jasenovac, but the police had road blocks on every road approaching the site in a wide radius. We were blocked from approaching the site from two
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16y ago
I first heard of this when Nokia had well over 50% of the market. It's announced now, but known for a long time.
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16y ago
This (again) makes me wonder what Italy is doing in G8. Let's give China or Spain a shot.
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16y ago
I'm an IT journalist but get hit up mostly by PR people and bigger businesses, not startups and lone developers. My advice is just to keep it brief, eliminate most of the PR crap and make a good presentation of what your product/service pro
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16y ago
You should have warned that it was an audio link.
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16y ago
Did I miss the part where he lost his fortune?
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16y ago
As much as I hate dealing with a lot of files and ID3 tags, streaming music sucks for mobile devices for a couple of reasons: - 3G quality and speeds are guarranteed everywhere and every time. I was left with nothing but the songs I had on
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16y ago
I image he would make loads more if he used a simpler distribution platform like Steam.