The phone goes beyond being just a BlackBerry dupe, however, by innovating in other areas. For instance, its clever “Signal Light” feature offers a light-up button on the side of the phone that can be customized with different colors and light patterns to indicate when you’ve received messages from certain people, groups, or apps.

Oh sweet summer child.

Unclear. At this point we probably need public uproar, rather than just the tech industry, but the mainstream media aren’t talking about it so nobody knows or cares.

The vote passed. First reading has happened in the senate. Parliament is shut down for the summer, so It will likely not become law until September.

HDDs have doubled in price recently too. Not a good time to try building a computer.