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Since the details on his "credit card replacement" were sparse, what caught my eye as more disturbing was: >Addressing "creepy comments": Schmidt laughed off questions about recent…

I know a lot of HNers are moving to develop on Android, but another of Fortune's stories today puts into perspective how significant the iPhone is likely to continue to be as a pla…

Moodle is OSS. Why not get involved and contribute there?

And Gizmo claims that Frank Shaw at MS says: "At any given time, we're looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It's in our DNA to develop new form factors an…

> based on income and assets In other words, "Sure, you can leave. Just send us a chunk of yourself... even if you made it on foreign soil and using foreign resources."

>> A bit more sleuthing reveals several "webkit" (the foundation of the iPad's and iPhone's mobile Safari browser) calls after peeling open the CSS Now that I web-surf with Click-t…

You could say this is bad news for developers... or good news... if more jobs are created by news sources wanting to court the iPad crowd. But in the larger scheme, if this trend c…

There's an amazing amount of heat, but little light on this, particularly regarding exactly what impact the legislation threatened to have on costs, labor, etc. for Amz, affiliates…

Seems more likely than that they would hack themselves.

Actually, I appreciate having the comments available on TC - so that perceptive readers can occasionally take them down a peg or two.

Critique Steve what you will. Point out iPad's lacking features what you will... The point to learn from decades of digital naysayers who proved clueless is: Predicting how people …

True, sadly. Headline-writing seems to be its own domain - and one charged primarily to be effective baiters (i.e., marketing specialists). So those who care enough about the impac…

Maybe there is need to develop means/skills for it to work in more jobs. As Pascal hyperbolized: "All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. …

As someone of Jobs' age I would be most pleased to discover that there are still some human/silicon interfaces waiting to be dramatically polished to someone 's sense of perfection…

As a college instructor and a citizen concerned about the cost of financing higher education, I share the outrage over textbook costs. But I don't expect to be outraged for long ab…

Since there still seems to be a debate about exactly what weakness was exploited, that conclusion is unwarranted. For that matter, a truly thorough cracker (with more time than con…

A page which politely invites you to enter your Twitter user name & pw. [ I politely declined. ]

I'm not sure why TomJen2's comment was barred - since he may have been asking what I would like to know: what method of "banning" have you found effective (with such a rowdy, deter…

Thanks for asking. ...however, no: even our basic cell service often forces into roaming mode here. —21st Century pioneer

Hopefully the counseling will include skills for coping with ignorant authoritarian bureaucracies - essential for tech innovators outside of tech-savvy settings.

Please say a prayer for your rural friends who are trying to survive on DSL: http://www.speedtest.net/result/684003092.png Edit: Forgot to tell you "the downside": it's $65/mo :/ P…

Or - in Safari - you can put such a style sheet in your user/library/safari folder for viewing it according to your preferred font (selecting it in Safari Preferences/Advances).

That would be a corollary of "do be evil".