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Please fix the title change. 'Trivial' and 'elementary' have specific meaning in mathematics and are not interchangeable. Roughly speaking, 'trivial' means easy or obvious, while '…

It might be that the Siri functionality is tied to the A5 chip. The A5 design is a lot larger than other dual core ARM A9 designs (even after accounting for the larger GPU) and thu…

I don't think Siri is in beta. I think only the 'voice dictation for arbitrary text input' feature is in beta.

Actually, in your link above, iPhone 4 prices start from $859. $719 is the price of the 3GS. I don't know how it is in Australia, but the contract price discrepancy between Android…

Except that Windows vs Mac was something like 95% to 5% in favor of Windows, while the smartphone market is likely to end up more like 60% to 30% in favor of Android. The situation…

iPhones get a much bigger subsidy from the carriers. This can be deduced from the ASP that Apple, HTC, RIM etc report. iPhone ASP has always been $600+, while HTC, RIM have ASPs ar…

I must disagree with the Organic Chemistry bit. I took advanced organic chem as an elective in college and I absolutely loved it. Yes there are a lot of different reactions, and th…

The FAQ has nothing to do with it. Nobody is contesting that cell tower location information is being used. The differing claim is this: the O'Reilly researchers claim that the co-…

I just used the original headline from the blog. You're correct that it makes sense in context, but that is why the "recording your moves" part is in quotes. It's a direct quote fr…

I'm not the author. But I believe the O'Reilly researchers claim that the co-ordinates logged are of the device itself. It is not clear at all that this is true and the author of t…

[Microsoft is] dictating rigid specs for 7 Series devices (a specific CPU and speed, screen aspect ratio and resolution, memory, and even button configuration), and doing away with…

Copyrights are monopoly rights that the state assigns to individuals for the public good . The public good here is not just creation of works (both original and derivative) but als…

Not to belittle ISRO's achievement, but the scientific instrument responsible for this was developed by US scientists for NASA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Mineralogy_Mapper

He probably meant to write 'trawling'.

I can't believe a comment that essentially consists of irrelevant objections to the article is sitting at the top. Please don't upvote emotional rants masquerading as arguments. Th…