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Phone number intergation inconsistent (*updated from Lacking*)

One feature which I've become accustomed to in my phones for the past number of years is their ability to make a phone call from just about anywhere in the phone. Before my first smart phone, if I received text messages or a notification of the sort, I could usually select a number, even within the body of the text message and call it. Once I got my smart phone (Motorola Q), if a phone number was entered in a text, email message, web site, calendar event, you name it, I could click it like a hyperlink and it would launch my dialer for me to make the call. This same capability is available in my G1, so it just seemed natural that I would be able to do this with my Pre. Unfortunately, that is not the case. I have yet to see my Pre recognize a phone number through any screen except for my contacts or call log.… Read more

Innovation 1-on-1: Chris Heatherly of Walt Disney Co.

We asked Chris Heatherly, vice president of technology and innovation, Disney Consumer Products, The Walt Disney Co., to answer a set of questions--and he took the time to dive a little deeper.

How do you define "innovation"? My favorite quote about innovation is one where Steve Jobs was asked how they systematize innovation at Apple and he said "We don't. We hire good people." I think a lot of talk about innovation amounts to a lot of dancing about architecture. People get caught up in trying to have an innovative "process" instead of … Read more