The only information this article is communicating is that GSM uses TDMA and that there are two other standards (IS54 and IS136, which they don't tell us what they are about) use them too.
The comparison that TDMA is a processor and GSM is an operating system is bad, too.
You mean ad filtered RSS/Atom? I assume such a program would be much faster to write these days: have a set of newsfeeds, map() them with a filter function and merge the results.
While the web gets more complex, the tools at hand get better. Much better.