Stephen Coles, contributing to Fonts In Use: In describing the new Yahoo! logo that launched today, CEO Marissa Mayer said it is based on “a sans serif font with scallops”. That font is Optima. The ‘O’s come straight from Herman Zapf’s typeface, while the other letters are derived from it. Setting aside the question of whether Optima is a good choice
Read More...Apple announced on Tuesday what the its leaking supply chain has been saying for weeks. There were no surprises, and this is a bad thing. On the whole, leaks-made-good aside, Apple made some good business moves today. The 5C will be legitimate second-tier phone, the MacBook Air to the iPhone 5S’s MacBook Pro. Nobody really
Read More...This Oracle press release is getting picked up all over the place. The summary: Projects often fail due to cost overruns, inadequate resources, improper staffing and lack of visibility. Oracle has introduced Oracle’s PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery to help customers avoid project failures by proactively providing visibility into projects and resources. By taking advantage of the extreme
Read More...Oracle’s John Webb, writing for PeopleSoft Apps Strategy: The PeopleSoft Customer Advisory Boards met last week at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores. Over 180 customer attendees representing 113 member companies participated as well as our partner sponsors for the CAB: Accenture, Grey Heller, Infosys, MIPRO and SmartERP. The CAB included three days of
Read More...Dave Smith, writing for International Business Times: By storing items randomly instead of categorically, the warehouse has a much better flow of material. Even without robots or automation, Amazon can compile a “picking list” that locates where each item needs to be taken off the shelf and scanned again before it can be shipped. The
Read More...Today I’m going to tell you about something I like – a coffee maker. I bought the Technivorm Moccamaster CD–010/S a few years ago, back in 2009. It’s a strange little device, made of a bunch of detachable plastic pieces. It has no advanced features, pales in feature/benefit comparison to other modern coffee makers, and
Read More...I know this is making the rounds, but the fact is I wish I had someone shout this at me when I was 12. Every child should watch this. More than once.
Read More...Paul Stamatiou’s Android Is Better post is generating a ton of attention (it made it to the front page of Techmeme, although it’s not there anymore), and I want to riff on it. Most readers know I am an “Apple Defender”. “Defender” is an accurate word to use because I find myself in conversations defending iOS
Read More...Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider: Rose asked the tech mogul to share his thoughts on what Apple will become without Jobs. Ellison said “we already know.” “We saw — we conducted the experiment,” Ellison explained. “I mean, it’s been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve
Read More...So there’s this app called Send Me to Heaven that’s available only Android (hmm). The idea is simple: the app tracks how high you can throw your phone. You install the app (on your android, obviously). You then throw your phone as high as you can. Go on, throw it. Catching the phone is entirely
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