It's not a bad looking phone...

...and Windows 7 Phone has some interesting and different approaches, but Nokia's problem is that right now, people looking to buy this sort of phone have already made their Q4/Holiday decision: wait for next year's wave of new models, buy one of the many fine Android phones, or buy an iPhone.

That decision carries at least six months of purchasing inertia, maybe more in this economic climate, so Nokia has to really come up with something compelling to have any hope of returning to relevancy, and the Lumia, nice though it is, doesn't cut it.

Maybe their next phone will.

Windows 8? WTF?

Why don't they put WebOS on their next fondleslab?

It has the triple benefits of actually existing in a usable form right now, being already owned by HP and being liked by consumers.

Unlike Windows 8.

Here's how it will work

Three models:

iPhone 4S - [NEW!] - 8Gb version of iPhone 4, with shiny plastic back instead of glass. May not be iOS5 capable.

iPhone 4 - will stay unchanged in 16 and 32Gb versions. iOS5 capable with some missing functionality.

iPhone 5 - [NEW!] - Larger screen (same res though), tapered edges (a little like iPad 2), metal back, re-worked antennae, 32Gb and 64Gb capacity; iOS 5 capable.

They will all make and receive phone calls.

Is this the same Meg Whitman who made the inspired decision...

...to try and graft Skype onto the twitching flabby rump of eBay?

As a non-shareholder and non-owner of anything by HP, I look forward to the next episode of corporate idiocy on display.

Not that big a deal

Hardly anyone will buy the car and for those very few sad folk who do, the 100 metre range before the car needs a full 16 hour deep recharge means that all these RSS sites will get is the rough positions of the three Nissan garages that will stock this woeful vehicle.

What is limited?

...the Playbook, the recall or both?

Horrified.

Surely as a true Apple devotee, you'll always have the latest offerings, and love them all; nothing you own should ever get old enough to need (and I can hardly bring myself to type these words)... internally upgrading...

HP12c - superb

Amazing that HP has not only kept this brilliant calculator going, but that the build quality is still pretty good; my one is fairly new and the keys have an excellent feel that you don't get with a Casio, TI, or for that matter, any other HP calculator either.

Let's hope HP also bring back the HP16c too.

@atragon - thanks for http://www.techpoweredmath.com - excellent site, now safely in my geek folder.

Slow loading...

"The remastered Goldfinger Blu-ray from Fox Home Entertainment took a lengthy one minute 14 seconds to bring up the 007 logo" - then I saw the 'Java powered' logo on the rear panel.

All became clear.

Sony 'incompetence' undermines arrogance...

It's the usual corporate idiot-think: decreased spending on IT must lead to increased profit.

I have a mac at home and it's really good.

I have a mac at home and it's really good. That's all I wanted to say.

What the hell is this?

It looks like phones used to look, only worse.

The latest iPhone - picture

Here's what it will look like - slightly bigger than the previous model, with a different display aspect ratio, pixel density and colour palette.

http://retrothing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/04/myz88.jpg

10x Java Ops per second

It doesn't look good for Java does it? And, given this is an Oracle chart, the 10x could be 'optimistic'.

But if you really need that 10x improvement, you probably don't have the time to re-architect your system, so you'll just pay what Oracle demands. Or move hardware.

Typo

It actually meant to read "Microsoft has shafted 1.5 million Windows phones" but the cut and paste wasn't working properly.

A 0.5m phone? That won't fit in my pocket...

...but there should be space for a good large screen at least.

If it's unchecked native code...

There will never be zero opportunity for a malicious piece of code to simply issue a system call. How will Chrome code verify the 'correctness' of every request? How could it? And if the checking code does indeed run in the same process, someone will easily find a way to manipulate it.

Finally there is a viable third choice for an operating system

Yes. Android.

4 tenths of a second over the entire run?

Yes; that's 100x faster.

Surprised to see no B&O here

I'd assumed they'd be at number 1 in your list.

Tried viewing the article with Firefox, Chrome and Safari in case of compatibility problems with your site, but still no B&O. Strange.

Ellison flunks vision test

...but passes the 'runs wildly successful very wealthy company' test quite well. I wonder what he's doing wrong?

Java isn't dead yet

Regardless of the amount of foot stamping from Apache, Java isn't going to die.

Java is a lousy client-side language - always has been - but that gap is admirably filled by C# for fat clients, and filled by any number of Ajax-based toolkits for web front ends. But on the server-side, there's just too much code out there. Companies across all sectors, who generally use Java for all new server-side development, are probably taking comfort that Java is now owned by a single company with a lot of cash and a future. Neither of which could be said about Sun. If Oracle truly have destroyed the reputation that Sun had, then surely that's good news for Java: Sun was a tired, directionless, lost company. It had its chance, it blew it.

What will change is this: Java will no longer be seen as fashionable.

All this will truly mean is that the vast hoards of parasitic bloggers, who claim to be thoroughly on the side of open source, yet somehow find little time to actually deliver anything of any worth, who recycle each others sad, tired views, never having the imagination or intelligence to add anything new, who've spent the last few years rehashing the same old dull arguments - these people will simply have to go off and find something else to drone on about. Good riddance. No-one cares; you're not wanted here in the real world.

The rest of us with jobs where we have to produce something that works will just carry on using Java (and C++ and C# and Python and perl and VB... and...) until something truly better comes along.

Why not ask Claire to bring up the sites you want...

...and she can take a photo of them for you, and, once the SD card is full, you can pick it up from her house, and drop off a new empty SD card.

That could work.

The funny thing...

...is that to get the speed, the super cluster actually runs Sybase, via a copy that Oracle 'acquired' from SAP as part of their recent low key technology sharing programme.

Project Managers - Learn the technology...

...and stop hiding behind powerpoint BS. Then your team will respect you and your projects will start delivering.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to two sets of very rich people with rampant egos, for successfully managing to get together without too many lawyers and agree on how to make even more money for themselves without producing anything new at all.

Well done, rich people! And well done to all who publicised this tremendous event.

Why don't they put all the adverts into a single "twat stream"?

Oh yes - because no-one would look at it - people hate adverts.

I imagine the Firefox, Safari and Chrome ad-blockers are being updated even as I type.

Just to summarise...

Is this about one 'egotistical sociopath' from company $X accusing another 'egotistical sociopath' from company $Y of lying about stealing products whilst hiring another 'egotistical sociopath' from the company who's hired the second 'egotistical sociopath' who used to work at company $Z?

Set X, Y and Z to the high market cap IT companies of choice.

Sony has nothing Apple needs or wants

Would you buy a company now best known for rootkits?

Microsoft can do better...?

"Microsoft can do better" - no they can't. That's why they're issuing threats.

Java is dying anyway

Java is on the way out. It'll soon be just a scripting language that Oracle uses to write its sh1tty installers. Nothing else.

Good riddance. No-one cares.

So it was the Sun Wot Warmed It?

ha.

My company gets around this by issuing us all ThinkPads

...that are so plasticky and fugly that no-one in their right mind would dream of stealing one.

A merger of microsoft + adobe...

...would be like blending dog turd and cat turd together, and pretending it's chocolate milkshake.

How big?

"Tablets are going to be a lot bigger than everyone realizes" - how big? cow-sized?

Windows and Linux - compare and contrast

The finest brains on the planet wrote the Windows Copy Engine (the slothful malevolence behind CopyFileEx) and its brilliance was explained at some length here - http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx

But unfortunately, a few hundred commentators didn't seem to agree. Over the course of a year or so, they hatefully ignored the genius theory and concentrated on the woeful real world performance instead.

The GNU/Linux coders - clearly neophytes - didn't bother with a Copy Engine, and just coded cp as a open file, followed by a chunked read/write loop, followed by a close file, letting the kernel make sense of it all.

And that's what worked for 60 million files. Priceless.

If they bring this out - I will immediately buy it...

...and find a use for it later.