Money money money. This is what Larry cares about and NOTHING else.

I am sure if it is a possible future asset and its not making money today it will be closed down and stored out of public view. If sun has an open source project you care about a full check out of source would be suggested ASAP.

Is this some kind of troll? I fail to understand how a screen that's larger than 17" would be a good thing to include in a computer that's supposed to be carried around.

So... the brighty "researchers" at Microsoft finally heard of QR Code, maybe suggested that a decoder be implemented in a next release of Windows Mobile, and had to reinvent the wheel so it would be "new stuff" ? That said, it *is* different from QR Code, a QR Code can story any arbitrary data, this variant seem to resolve around URLs to web services that do an awful lot of stuff without the user's explicit consent (other than scanning the code). Damn. Having seen the horrors of ActiveX "automations", it sure don't want this in cellphones! Maybe I sound like an party-pooper, but wouldn't color complicate the whole stuff? I mean, a QR code or a standard barcode can be printed in a black-and-white newspaper page (which are not *that* uncommon), this Microsoft Tag could not.

From the Facebook terms of service: "By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing."

English's not my native language, I may be overlooking a legal subtelty... but this looks like Facebooks takes the right to GIVE my pics, not to SELL them. As for "derivative works", is a generated thumbnail a "derivative work" of the pic I just uploaded?

Those middle men were there before, this is just a reduction in the number of middle men.

The RIAA has gone a long way toward destroying itself, deep gaffes that it won't fully understand for 10 years.