Posts by Mark 176

Nokia, Microsoft put on brave face as Lumia 925s parachute into Blighty

Looks nice, I'd love this phone with stock android.

Windows Phone 8 must be Microsoft's priority one, two AND three

Re: Who are Nokia?

I just can't understand why anyone thinks the windows phone ui is nice? It is just a series of rectangular boxes in a limited number of colours? Everyone I know thinks it looks childish or fugly. and once you get past the tiles you have a widget set that make the android gingerbread ones look good and look so bad next to iOS or modern android itciukd make your eyes bleed. (Although some of the new iOS apps by Apple make me want to cry too. Pretend leather wtf).

Google finds MORE slurped Street View data down under

Re: i really don't see what the fuss is about

Hardly. They drove past your house and you sent them the data of your own free will. All they had to do was listen they didn't ask you to turn off the encryption or for your password. So I don't see how people can get upset about it. If you want to keep your data private don't broadcast it unencrypted to every person who might drive past your house.

Microsoft's master stroke: Pay store staff per WinPhone sold

And nearly all of the patents are for things so obvious I can't for the life of me understand how they ever passed examination.

Apple and MS are just as bad as each other with their patents now, the majority of them should not exist.

Nokia's Brave New World is (almost) Finn-free

competitively priced?

I just don't see where people say it is competitively priced to the iPhone and High end Android phones when the hardware is nowhere near as good. It is on par with a mid level android phone or iPhone 3gs which cost nothing compared to these.

Google, antitrust, and the 'Copygate' hypocrisy

Huh??

You say that you don't see how google is different to a site that is just referencing other material but if I were to search google for information on X and the first hit was www.google.com I'd be pretty pissed. I want the actual information on X not a site that can take me to the imformation on X.

The reality is they built a company on a service that lets you find information, not one that copies it (ignoring google books and friends which came along later). They didn't (as far as I am aware at least) go and mine the search results of the existing search engines to build their search index, and I don't see why others should be allowed to mine theirs. It's not like google has exclusive access to all the information needed to build a decent search engine.

In general that article seems pretty anti-google, and while there may be lots of reasons to not like google I hardly think this article presents one of them.