Interesting Links for 17-03-2013

[andrewducker]

• Tax loophole for UK businesses set to close
  (tags: tax uk )
• What it's like doing a maths PhD.
  (tags: academia mathematics )
• Cyprus levies 7-10% on savings in banks to pay for their bailout
  (tags: europe banking cyprus )
• Are bloggers to be included in the proposed press royal charter?
  (tags: law uk viaJennieRigg web media )
• Smartphone's have

Comments

[ashfae]

That comic is wonderful!

[daveon]

One of my big takeaways from Mobile World Congress was that all the phones were the same and that the phone technology had stopped being the differentiator.

When I started out in phones it was all the chipsets, radio and screens... that's all settled now, except for incremental issues and it's more what the thing can do on top.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. Phone chipsets are now so commodified that there aren't really changes happening to chipsets and suchlike, so far as I understand.

Screens still coming in a variety of sizes, and reviewers will quibble over different display technologies, but the majority of people don't even notice any more.