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Both of these add-ons are certainly nice, but the real game changer is Microsoft's solution to a fundamental flaw in most mobile platforms. Instead of having to toggle back and forth between separate apps so you can check Facebook or send a tweet, the WP7 team figured out how to aggregate all your social-networking content in a People hub on your Start screen. Likewise, photos from your mobile device, PC and various social networks will be neatly organized within the Pictures hub. In all, WP7 has created six distinct hubs - People, Pictures, Music+Video, Games, Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shout Hallelujah, Come On, Get Appy | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...many animal psychologists argue that the landscaping and enriched environments of contemporary zoos are as much for the benefit of human visitors as anything else. The array of dysfunctional behaviors on display at even the best zoos - from swaying giraffes to pacing big cats to the compulsive back-and-forth swimming of Gus, the famously neurotic polar bear in New York's Central Park Zoo - illustrate the psychologists' point. Trying to improve conditions is hard enough with small to midsize animals like cheetahs and lions; with a leviathan like a killer whale, whose enclosure can only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer-Whale Tragedy: What Made Tilikum Snap? | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...person, surprisingly, Jenny McCarthy comes across as corn-fed cute rather than overwhelmingly beautiful. She has a common touch, and a woman even slightly more beautiful would struggle to connect as she does. When McCarthy meets a mom, when she spits forth a stream of profanity and common sense - the foulmouthed comedian from Chicago never far from the surface - she is there as a mother, not as a celebrity or starlet. That's what got her there, but that's not who she is once she's there. She speaks to so many frustrated, despairing mothers of autistic children because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Autism Debate: Who's Afraid of Jenny McCarthy? | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...some merit - are often decried by mainstream pediatricians and other physicians and as being untested or unproven. Yet it is rare to find a family struggling with an autistic child that hasn't tried at least some version of one of them. While every illness brings forth unproven treatments, autism, because there has been so little progress in terms of finding a cause, much less a proven cure, has been a field replete with controversial therapies that lure in desperate parents. (See more about autism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Autism Debate: Who's Afraid of Jenny McCarthy? | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character, Alvy Singer, is standing in a movie line, listening to some blowhard intellectual hold forth about media scholar Marshall McLuhan. When the loudmouth cites his own academic credentials, Singer produces the actual McLuhan to refute him: "You know nothing of my work!" Alvy 1, Egghead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Outrage Smackdown: Family Guy Defeats Palin | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

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