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Google loses Android friends with Pixel exclusivity

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Re: Given most OEMs' approach to Android updates,

Not being attentive to everything, has Mozilla really given up on Firefox? Really?

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Web inventor Berners-Lee: I so did NOT see this cat vid thing coming

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I can't remember when, but

I can't remember when, but I needed to run a simple control unit simulation and was introduced to one of the university groups that could handle it via a telephone link (University of Illinois, I believe). I was soon after offerred the chance to do it via computer links, also via a phone link at first, but then directly via computers talking to each other, and other University computers, all on an interconnection system. A couple of years later, I was told that the second simulation task had been by ARPANET, "the" original internet. Comments??

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HP confirms it's back in the smartphone business

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Palm OS is dead. So What!

OK, so the old OS is gone. So What? What made the Palm so good was not the OS. It was that the originators kept in mind what the product should do. The operation should be Intuitive. Human Factors was their key. The functionality, the ease of operation, the methodology, the integration of functions. What? Intergration? Of course! The operation of most extant devices are a hodgepoge of functions pushed together as if a bunch of garbage. If they get the utility right, thinking of the user, the OS is beside the point.

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