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Three years ago, the mobile horizon looked very different from how it has turned out. Google was working on Android, its open-source-ish operating system for cellular phones. Its strategy: Let a million mobile phones blossom! So long as Google products - search, maps, documents - ran on them, Google would win, since Google ads would, presumably, continue to flow. Google would be baked into Android, of course, but it would also be on BlackBerrys and Nokias and Windows Mobile phones. And when the first iPhone went on sale two summers ago, Google apps, including YouTube integration, were core...
...headline on Bobby Ghosh's article, "Can we be friends?" is perhaps going too far [July 13]. Friendship cannot spring up without common understanding and common interests. The improvement in relationships between Russia and the U.S. should be fostered on both sides; let us hope that Mr. Obama and Mr. Medvedev, two young and charismatic leaders, honestly face this tough challenge. Ignacio O'Dogherty, MADRID...
Creative Freedom Re "Let Someone Else Buy" by Justin Fox: it is interesting to see that the strongest and rising economies - Brazil, Russia, India and China - are also the ones with some of the worst records of copyright abuse [July 13]. Could it be that the corporations who are desperately clinging to their copyrights and intellectual properties, and spending billions in protecting them (mostly to the advantage of the lawyers and not the original creators), are in fact stifling innovation and economic growth in the process? Chris Patmore, LONDON...
Usually, stars are paid what they will bring in at the box office. So if you get, let's say, Will Smith, you're guaranteed to get his salary or more the first weekend, just by his name alone. The movie doesn't have to be fantastic. But he certainly draws people in, and that's why we pay him the money...
...devout and stoic Roman Catholic widow became the incarnation of a pious nation that had itself suffered silently through more than a decade of autocratic rule. Millions lined the funeral route and repeated her nickname as if saying the rosary: "Cory, Cory, Cory." If she had agreed to let the massive demonstrations of outrage pass in front of Malacañang Palace, said Vicente Paterno, a Marcos official who would later be her ally, "that could have toppled Marcos." But it would be nearly three years before she would learn to take advantage of her power. Instead, she concentrated...