Category Archives: Business
Dell pulls back from netbook market
Dell introduced the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 in 2008. It included an Intel Atom N270 processor, solid-state storage and an 8.9-inch 22.6-cm screen. A second generation, the Dell Inspiron Mini 10, was built using the Atom Z520 or Atom Z530 processors
Google’s Android Update Alliance Is Already Dead
Google’s Android Update Alliance Is Already Dead | Jamie Lendino | PCMag.com.
What’s the point of upgrading the OS on a phone that will obsolete in a year or so?
Western Digital Lifts Dec Qtr View; Restarts Thai Mfg; Shrs Up
Western Digital Lifts Dec Qtr View; Restarts Thai Mfg; Shrs Up – Forbes.
Western Digital shares are trading higher Friday morning after the disk-driver maker revised its financial outlook for its fiscal third quarter ending December – and said it has restarted manufacturing in its flood-ravaged facilities in Thailand earlier than it had previously expected.
Android Developers Blog: A Closer Look at 10 Billion Downloads
On Tuesday, we announced that Android Market passed 10 Billion app downloads. We wanted to look a little deeper at that huge number. First question: which app was lucky number 10 billion? Photobucket Mobile. They’ll be getting a great prize package, including tickets to next year’s Google I/O developer conference.
via Android Developers Blog: A Closer Look at 10 Billion Downloads.
PATRIOT Act and privacy laws take a bite out of US cloud business
Microsoft’s managing director in the UK, Gordon Frazer, made that admission in June at the Office 365 launch in London. After researching the PATRIOT act, Microsoft found that regardless of where data was stored, it could not ensure that data would not be turned over to the US government as the result of a National Security Letter or other government request, because the company is governed by US law.
via PATRIOT Act and privacy laws take a bite out of US cloud business.
Tablet priced under $100 with Android 4.0 surfaces
Ainol’s Novo7 tablet has a 7-inch capacitive screen and runs on a 1GHz single-core MIPS processor, said MIPS Technologies and chip maker Ingenic in a joint press release. The tablet’s battery lasts eight hours on watching video, seven hours when browsing the Web and six hours when playing games.
The tablet runs on Google’s Android 4.0, code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, which is the successor to Android 3.0, code-named Honeycomb, which is found on the more advanced tablets today.
via Tablet priced under $100 with Android 4.0 surfaces | ITworld.
Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner”
The sales process seemed like buying a car. Initially, the rep asked for 100% of the revenue. He eventually “settled” for 50% “Understanding that your business is newer, I decided to split the revenue with you,” he wrote. At one point, Jessie was told that she could only ever run one Groupon over the life of the business.
via Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner” | TechCrunch.
The Biggest Red Flag In The Groupon IPO Isn’t The Sea Of Red Ink
We assume that the preferred stockholders here are Groupon’s founders; usually it’s venture capital investors who have “preferred stock”, but we’ve never heard of a respectable VC asking for dividends of a money-losing startup.
via The Biggest Red Flag In The Groupon IPO Isn’t The Sea Of Red Ink – Business Insider.
Published on June 2, 2011.
Why Hypercard Had to Die
The reason for this is that HyperCard is an echo of a different world. One where the distinction between the “use” and “programming” of a computer has been weakened and awaits near-total erasure. A world where the personal computer is a mind-amplifier, and not merely an expensive video telephone. A world in which Apple’s walled garden aesthetic has no place.
What you may not know is that Steve Jobs killed far greater things than HyperCard. He was almost certainly behind the death of SK8. And the Lisp Machine version of the Newton. And we may never learn what else. And Mr. Jobs had a perfectly logical reason to prune the Apple tree thus. He returned the company to its original vision: the personal computer as a consumer appliance, a black box enforcing a very traditional relationship between the vendor and the purchaser.