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hoi··on Nothing in Android makes sense except in the light of its original vision
Symbian was also designed with integration with hardware in mind and providing core API's for manufacturers and carriers to build a UI on top of. This is why the early owners of Symbian were a plethora of manufacturers and operators. Symbian even tried to designate 3 specific UI frameworks (touch, candybar and QWERTY) named Quartz, Pearl and Crystal.. but the shareholders revolted and went their own UI way (hence S60, UIQ & MOAP).

Disclosure: I worked at Symbian between 1999-2003

hoi··on BitTorrent Live: Cheap, Real-Time P2P Video Streaming That Will Kill TV
It's the distribution method, not the TV per se that is being attacked, otherwise they would articulate the same thing in their Apple TV (iTV) article a few articles lower. The headline is just linkbait.
hoi··on Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink
I agree with the sentiment that it's all about pageviews. The people who focus on the company and get to spend time to write on it are usually analysts rather than journalists or bloggers. They're goal is not pageviews because the content is usually not geared towards mass market and would be focused at niche audiences.
hoi··on Google Wants $1.7 Billion from 'unfair' iPhone Royalties
I updated it to include the relative shares of the patent pool for LTE to give a better perspective comparing the amounts they ask for compared to Qualcomm.
hoi··on Value of YC Companies
ok, in that case should also include data of the terminal value of companies that shut up shop.
hoi··on Value of YC Companies
Since they are measuring exits, you would need to add companies that closed into the calculation, as that is a form of 'exit'. Then you can average it, but to get a better idea, dump the numbers into a standard deviation calculator and you will get a range between the 2 standard deviation to get a better idea. This way, it will take into account 'variance'. http://easycalculation.com/statistics/standard-deviation.php
hoi··on How to use Flurry for split testing and engagement metrics
Let me know if there are any errors to correct etc. or if there are other resources that would be useful to add to this.
hoi··on Why Don’t Smartphones Have A “Guest Mode”?
Lock doesn't have to be from the SIM side, can be from the OS side.
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