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1. Comment - The PC era is over

   (Feb 16, 2011 - 12:21 AM)

   I can see u: passenger in a plane, bus, car, taxi ... editing your work (Excel or doc file), transferring money fromm one account to somewhere else, WITH UR DESKTOP PC, 24 inch screen. Paying on-line games, or first-person shooter. All for free. Tell me another joke about your self being in the century C21.

2. Comment - Microsoft is the plague: Nokia stock drops 14% as 1,000 employees walk out

   (Feb 15, 2011 - 10:28 PM)

   Agreed. M7 on the smartphone is worst than W6.5 on my HTC HD2. like M$ Windows CE ... doomed to fail.
   
   Android marketplace is doing better now than Apple - developers moving fromm Iphone to Android, more freeware, trial-ware, cripple-ware, as-ware, nag-ware - but workable.
   
   Iphone is locked in: no swapable battery, flash cards, third parrty op sys developers, tight censorship on their Apple-onle0approved marketplace.
   
   If only Nokia could learn first from Apple, then Android. Make the op sys "open ... good. Help third party developers - good. Free apps - good. But why not go with Android, instead of inventing another version of Linux?

3. Comment - Microsoft is the plague: Nokia stock drops 14% as 1,000 employees walk out

   (Feb 15, 2011 - 10:14 PM)

   Same happened in Australia. AU's equivalent to AT%T (Telstra) was forced by the federal gov't to break up its monopoly on the phone system. Telstra's is/ was badly magaed, but destroyed itself in the AT&T-type breakup. So it imported a USA citizen, to try to outwit the Federal gov't, USA-style. The American executive did to Telstra-AU what the imported executive did to Nokia ... destroyed it further.
   
   Nokia was on the correct path, giving up Symbian, moving to Linux - Maemo or Meego. Symbian was like MS-DOS; not able to handle touch screen GUI.
   
   Now I've moved from my best ever Nokia N82, to Android: Motorola Defy (soon with Froyo 2.2). None of the current smartphones properly match the N82: small, low power, large stero speakers inbuilt. But it is a computer with a much larger screen, water, dust & drop resistant (to 3 feet or 1 meter).

4. Comment - Google provides a look at Android's highly customized future with App Inventor

   (Jul 25, 2010 - 8:50 AM)

   www.FILEFORUM.COM allows consumers to rate and review its downloads. When it gets adds Android apps, that'll be heaven for me.

5. Comment - Ballmer: Microsoft will push forward with new tablets, phones

   (Jul 25, 2010 - 8:42 AM)

   Microsoft is chasing where USA's I.B.M. was decades ago - upsizing into the server markets, ignoring the lower profit margin consumers. Linux is slowly going the other way: SERVER to PC to ANDROID, MAEMO, etc.
   
   Apple is staying where it has always been: slow-learner, bulk consumer sectors, but with high profit margins. Apple won't go Linux; Just into another UNIX-derivative, based of BSD. (afaik via Wikipedia).ta
   
   Myself - using Linux Mint, since Win7-64 on my i3 notebook is so slow & heavy. Troublesome 'cos needing dailyy upgrades in 2 op systems! All data is stored on a genuine M$-NTFS-compressed partition. I hate both Linux & M$.
   
   Waiting for Android 2.3+ ...
   
   Greg Zeng, Australian Capital Territory