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For those with 65 minutes of time, here's an excellent presentation about it by Dr. Everitt himself:

http://einstein.stanford.edu/Media/Everitt_Brainstorm-flash....

The Need for Cognition Scale can be found here: http://www.liberalarts.wabash.edu/ncs/

Note (from the link): "Based on previous research, the Need for Cognition Scale appears to be a valid and reliable measure of individuals’ tendencies to pursue and enjoy the process of thinking"

It has nothing to do with Intro/Extroversion. NFC may have some correlation to Intro/Extroversion, but one cannot draw that conclusion from the NFC study alone.

It's a security issue if the Indian government, or anyone else for that matter, found a way to create a backdoor into RIM's system without RIM's knowledge and consent.

As that isn't the case, then it's a privacy issue because the Indian government demanded RIM put in a backdoor for reasons or surveillance of its population.

Does this privacy issue potentially lead to a security issue? Yes, but not for RIM, but rather for it's users that depend on the privacy of RIM's service over which they may transmit sensitive information.

Before anyone says "about time", I'd just like to add: compare the WP7 initial release timeline to the Android initial release timeline. (Can't reasonably compare to iOS because WP7 and Android are multi-manufacturer and multi-carrier right out of the gate, whereas iOS is a closed system on limited carriers.)

Android v1.0 - 2008-10-21

Android v1.1 - 2009-02-09 (111 days)

Android v1.5 - 2009-04-30 (191 days)

Note: v1.5 ("Cupcake") was the first generally available update. v1.1 was exclusively for the T-Mobile G1.

WP7 v1.0 - 2010-10-21 in EU region (earliest date)

WP7 v1.1 - 2010-03-23 (153 days)

MS launched a brand new platform with 10 different devices on 60 carriers in 30 countries. Google launched a brand new platform on 3 HTC phones (Dream, T-Mobile G1, and Era G1), and if you look at the manufacturer release history, things didn't start to take off until v1.5.

Haters gonna hate, I suppose.

Comparing WP7 to iOS doesn't really make sense in this case. WP7 is, like Android, an OS used by several manufacturers and delivered on several networks. Each manufacturer and carrier has their own acceptance testing scheme. Failure at any step means tweaking and retesting.

It took Android from 2008-09-23 to 2009-04-30 to get to it's first MAJOR update (cupcake, v1.5). MS is pretty much on the same pace. (Note: Android 1.1 was exclusively for the T-Mobile G-1; I don't consider that comparable to the WP7 Nodo update.)

iOS runs on iPhone and iPad, and on a comparably limited number of networks. Yet it took from 2007-06-29 until 2009-06-17 (days shy of 2 years) just to get copy and paste functionality.

The market leader only looks more agile today, after they worked out a ton of bugs. Considering just how well WP7 worked from day one, I think it actually has a very bright future.

The linked article says:

"The profile of iPad 2 buyer is 60 percent existing iPad owners, 40 percent first-time iPad buyers and 100 percent own at-least one Apple product, Global Equity's Chowdhry wrote."

Where are you getting your 70% figure?

11 years old and still relevant.

As commercially available products, they're definitely not dead. Studios keep churning out point-and-click adventure games, just check out www.jayisgames.com, the Nintendo DS, and the smart phone app stores.

However, innovation within the genre is on life support and in critical condition, but it has been like that since long before that article was published.

They still largely depend on puzzles with only a single correct solution, even if you have items in plain view on the screen that in reality would solve the problem (this is the "dream logic" mentioned in the linked article). They also rely on pixel hunting. Nothing has really changed.