tonycamilli

Yes, it’s called a Windows license.

Especially if he hits himself really hard in the thumb.

Carpenters are at a very high risk of this happening when watching porn on their hammer instead of using it to do their job.

Obviously it’s because you’re connected to 4G WiFi (802.11n)

/s

Ooh. Can I do picture-in-picture with the home button screen?

I don’t know about the practicality of NFC replacing a SIM, but there is already momentum around NFC-enabled SIMs. One benefit is that feature phones or non-NFC equipped phones could easily be enabled for mobile payments and other NFC use cases. I think adoption is being primarily hindered by cost (carriers don’t want to pay for more expensive SIMs when NFC payments doesn’t offer a clear revenue stream to them) and phone design (SIM is usually sandwiched between the battery and screen), among many other challenges inherent to NFC.

Local folder that is synced to SkyDrive.

Apparently it takes one minute to update the clock widget.

Well, there’s the whole geek badge of honor thing too. But yeah, most people probably don’t care about that.

Microsoft Google is conducting an experiment to track the path of an email. For every person you forward this email to, Bill Gates Larry Page will pay you $245…

Xamarin has ported the Java code inside Android … to C#

Kudos to Chris. You’re the first tech journalist to get this nuance right. Everyone else writes that Android has been “ported to C#”, which is wildly inaccurate.

They call it the “Stick it to iFixIt” head.

Made by Apple.

Hope this helps,
Gene Munster

I understand your frustration, but lets look at a few factors:

1) Today, voice and SMS aren’t “just data”; they run on a separate, non-IP networks. In the foreseeable future this will change for smartphones as LTE and IMS or Voice-over-LTE become the norm. Until then, voice and SMS will continue to be routed through the legacy GSM/CDMA network.

2) The reason voice and text plans are separate is a historical remnant left over from the feature phone era. It will remain this way until (a) all phones are smartphones, and (b) the networks are purely IP-based.

3) No company is going to charge you their cost for a service (e.g. SMS). A few dumb companies will use “cost plus” pricing (their cost plus percentage of margin). Smart companies will charge value-based pricing. That’s exactly why SMS plans are so expensive – the market will bear the price because it’s a highly desired feature.

Apple doesn’t need to cater to the power users, the jailbreak community will do that for them.

MacBook … unidoby model

Did it look like this?

This is also a great way to screw with someone who doesn’t lock their PC when they leave their desk.