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The most open cross platform texting is… Well… Texting. Why do we need a proprietary app?

2 days ago on Best New Apps: Google Hangouts

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I recently pulled up to a stop light that had switched into all lanes blinking red due to a train blocking one lane. All the cars were stopped. I asked others in the car if these drivers simply do not know simple traffic laws? I laughed looking in my rear view mirror that after my stop and go others at the intersection proceeded properly.

3 days ago on Road warriors: critics say big change to US traffic safety 'bible' could put drivers at risk

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Depends, are you talking about speed limits that are set by local laws, or recommended speeds you see in yellow that have no standards and are both very arbitrary and not legally binding?

3 days ago on Road warriors: critics say big change to US traffic safety 'bible' could put drivers at risk

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Starting to become very common even here in flyover country.

3 days ago on Road warriors: critics say big change to US traffic safety 'bible' could put drivers at risk 1 reply 2 recommends

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In college classes on the subject and working in civil engineering firms, everyone simply calls it the “MUTCD”. I believe the bible reference is simply an attempt at putting what is in this book into layman terms.

3 days ago on Road warriors: critics say big change to US traffic safety 'bible' could put drivers at risk

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Sony was once a great company, and became evil at the same time they purchased a content company. Coincidence? Perhaps if they sell it, and they do no evil for 3-4 years, I would reconsider purchasing their brand.

4 days ago on Sony mulls investor proposal to sell off movie, TV, and music units 1 reply

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We flew to San Diego, spent 10 days driving up the coast to the Redwoods north of San Francisco, and took Amtrak for 24 hours “just for fun”. The train we rode last summer had no wifi, and our cell phones only worked on the few sections of track that paralleled a highway.

Never again. The conductors were rude. The seats incredibly uncomfortable, we did not sleep on the train (and we did try). The microwave hamburgers in the snack car were barely edible. The meals in the dining car were decent but pricey.

They need a serious tech overhaul to the entire system. They need a clean slate rebuild of the train cars, starting with decent seats. The trains need to go faster (GPS showed 70 mph max).

I just don’t think the US has what it takes to build a fast, comfortable, service oriented, ground based transportation system.

7 days ago on Amtrak improves its notoriously-sluggish onboard Wi-Fi with 4G connectivity 4 replies

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The big question is what, if any, laws were broke? Did any insider trading take place?

13 days ago on 'Several hundred' Bloomberg reporters were watching Wall Street sources through terminals 1 reply

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If you enjoy this that’s great, I personally do not want the carriers or device builders messing with the UI. If I ever ran Android the base version from Google is the only one I would touch.

16 days ago on Huawei brings W1 Windows Phone 8 handset to US, lands Walmart as retail partner

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$129 is really not much money to most people in the US. I spent $200 to try WP7, made money reselling it. No biggie.

16 days ago on Huawei brings W1 Windows Phone 8 handset to US, lands Walmart as retail partner 1 reply

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It is a “market failure”. By Econ there is essentially not enough carriers due to the high cost of building out a network for capitalism to work. This is a textbook example of when government has to step in and protect consumers. That they have failed to do.

21 days ago on In 2013, the keys to Android are still held by the carriers 5 recommends

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Googles main goal was market share so they can sell you advertising, and businesses data about you. I’m sure they would also love to control the OS, but they turned it loose to support goal 1.

21 days ago on In 2013, the keys to Android are still held by the carriers 1 reply

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You just proved his point.

23 days ago on Acorn 4 flies through image editing with new filter UI, improved speed, and curves 1 recommend

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I set my son up an account because of the clean interface, and the fact he could actually still get his name as an address. But cannot get the account to send from his iPad. He gets spammed almost daily with message to please log into your account. We have a couple times to see if that would fix it. Nope. I will soon probably delete the account and help him set up a gmail account instead.

23 days ago on Microsoft completes Hotmail to Outlook.com upgrade, SkyDrive integration rolling out 2 replies

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Nothing worth doing is free. The question is what are you willing to pay with, $1-5 of money, your personal information, your time looking at ads? Data shows most iOS users in the first camp, most Android owners in the latter 2. I personally have very few free apps.

23 days ago on Traktor DJ for iPhone brings simple but powerful mixing tools to Apple's small screen 2 recommends

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Rent Seeking. At one time the US was a very capitalist country. Wonder how other countries are not only catching up, but now starting to pass us by?

23 days ago on Taxi hailing apps come to NYC, but judge immediately blocks them

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Any security in your portfolio that has two transactions within 15 minutes of each other pays 100% tax on any gains for the year, cannot take advantage of any losses.

24 days ago on Hacked AP Twitter account shows need for new high-speed trading rules, US official says 1 reply

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So he is willing to take out 10% of his customers to keep a few from seeing his ads? Brilliant. How is he still CEO?

25 days ago on CBS CEO Moonves says he could take network cable-only in 'a few days' if Aereo prevails 2 replies 1 recommend

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They need this yesterday.

I teach at a small college and we considered adopting MS tablets campus wide. With iPads we can simply add a $99 AppleTV to each projector (much cheaper than upgrading). I went to the MS store twice and asked numerous employees how to wirelessly project a Surface tablet. The only answer was an Xbox. That will not happen. Until they can ship this, a Roku app to wirelessly project might help.

Our first department is switching to iPad’s next semester.

26 days ago on Xbox Mini 3 replies