As an aside, reviewer Scott Evans demonstrates yet again that Newton's laws of motion still take precedence over fancy electronics. 

Reshared post from +Steven Levy

In all the +Marissa Mayer coverage, there has been surprisingly little said about one of the most significant achievements in her tenure at Google — the success of the Associate Product Manager program she conceived and ran.  According to the Yahoo press release over 300 highly coveted CS grads with potential CEO skills came into Google through this initiative, and Mayer set out to mentor all of them.  It's not too much of a leap to expect some of them (many of whom are post-Google already) to take jobs at Yahoo. 

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"Google spent $12.5 billion in 2012 to buy Motorola Mobility and its patents, and only $5.2 billion in 2011 on R&D," Chien explains. "In 2011, Apple spent $2.4 billion on R&D but contributed more — approximately $2.6 billion — in a single transaction to buy patents from Nortel."

That's a quote from my story today — super indepth — on the patent sit. Sounds boring, but damn, there is intrigue in those patent stories! and what characters!
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229100/Can_the_U.S._patent_system_be_saved_?taxonomyId=214&pageNumber=2

When the wireless companies started rolling out family share plans some years ago the pricing actually worked out to be beneficial for many users as they paid significantly less for additional lines than they would otherwise pay for a separate account. 

This time around, the wireless companies have decided they weren't going to be so generous. For most customers that don't use 3G/4G tablets, they will be lucky to get away with paying about the same amount every month in exchange for giving up unlimited data and getting uncapped access to the voice and SMS service that they are generally using less of. 

For me personally we never use up the 1,400 minutes I pay for on five lines (4 smartphones and one Verizon at home line) but we have 4 unlimited data plans. Going to the shared plan with 6GB of data to share among 4 people would cost me within a few dollars of my current bill. 

The people that will benefit from the new plans are those that have few lines and multiple additional devices like tablets. They will go from $30 a month for a tablet to $10. 

I don't want an unlimited voice and messaging plan for all my phones. If Verizon would offer me 700 or even 1400 minute plan for $25-30 per line, I would switch over but under the current set up I will stick with what I have for as long as I can.