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Nokia XL was also announced in the Nokia X family line.
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WhatsApp to Start Offering Internet Phone Calls[^] [NYTimes]
WhatsApp announced on Monday that it would start offering voice services later this year - diversifying beyond its main messaging service into phone calls. WhatsApp’s voice service is expected to be available first on Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS operating systems, then expand to others like Windows Phone and Blackberry.
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For Hints at Apple’s Plans, Read Its Shopping List[^] [NYTimes]
The company has avoided jaw-dropping takeovers in favor of a series of smaller deals, using the companies to buttress or fill a gap in products that already exist or are in development. ... And while the deals may be small - particularly given Apple’s nearly $160 billion cash hoard - they offer a window into where the secretive company is headed and which products and services it is trying to build or improve.
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Gmail users who get frustrated trying to find the "unsubscribe" link that's often buried in small type at the bottom of promotional emails may instead start seeing it before they even open the message. "They say that breaking up is hard to do."
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Ray Kurzweil, the man who promises "Singularity" between man and machine, speaks of it as being a wonderful thing. But is it? Even remotely? Way ahead of you there
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I'll be in trouble I don't like Captain Crunch?
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I would say we're already there. There are way too many people who ARE stupid as machines, without any exposure to a computer.
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When adopting agile teams can use (external) coaches and mentors. But teams can also develop themselves by having team members mentoring and coaching each other. Team members can learn skills and abilities from other team members in multidisciplinary teams, enabling the team to grow as a whole and become self-organized. "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together"
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The CBSG[^] is apparently useful for article writing too. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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and i am the walrus
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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goo goo g'joob 
TTFN - Kent
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The people I find the most interesting are the "Microsoft killed my Pappy" people, angry with generational anger. My elders hated Microsoft so I hate them. Why? Because, you wronged me. They're (mostly) not the same company they used to be
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"Scott Hanselman is a ........ Microsoft employee." but that doesn't mean anything.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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It really doesn't. I've known more than a few 'Softies, and they are really trying to change the way the company does stuff. Granted, they're almost entirely within the DevDiv org (or rather "Server and Tools"). Certainly there are still large chunks of the company that would love to continue to merrily swing a monopoly club around the industry.
TTFN - Kent
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I don't understand your response. This guy is an apologist whose thesis seems to be that angst against ms is inherited and not based an valid current issues.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Which I would agree with (for the most part). Also, knowing Scott (as little as I do), he likely had this opinion before he became a Microsoft employee, and he'd still think this way if he weren't working for the company.
I think that many more people hate Microsoft due to the actions leading to the monopoly trial (i.e. decades ago) than hate them for IE8, Metro, Vista, or any other current issue.
TTFN - Kent
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I hate them mostly for launching half baked products, and then discontinuing them a few years later just when you got going with it (Silverlight, Managed DirectX, WPF). Good thing I completely ignored the whole Win RT thing, reeked of Silverlight all over again.
Wout
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I think that many more people hate Microsoft due to the actions leading to the monopoly trial (i.e. decades ago) than hate them for IE8, Metro, Vista, or any other current issue.
Plus, they'd be hated anyway as almost all big companies are hated for one reason or another.
Kevin
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Today, Microsoft announced a new reference design hardware sample for potential OEMs and ODMs. The move, in conjunction with reduced hardware requirements like front facing keys, will allow new manufacturers to easily jump on board with Windows Phone. Now they just need to sell a few (million)
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There’s an ongoing conversation about the shifting role of developers and what that means for IT departments. They’re now shaping product and user experience with such great influence that businesses must understand their importance in order to be as successful as possible. "Endless forms most beautiful"
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Those customers that created accounts before December 13, 2013 will have the expiration date of their “early adopter (free) status” extended to May 7, 2014. At that time, the early adopter program will end and everyone will transition to “standard terms”. Between now and then, we will enable the data export experience. "We are experiencing technical difficulties, please stand by"
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And I just moved all my projects to CP's workspaces...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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One aim is to help blunt domination by two mobile OS's, Android and iOS, Mozilla CEO Sullivan declares "I'd buy that for a dollar!" or 25
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I'd probably get on board with something that takes as little investment as that.
For $25, I'd totally get one just to play around with.
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Apple has released a patch for iOS and says an OS X fix will be released 'very soon' Encrypt different
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