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Read More...So Boy Genius Report got everyone pretty worked up when they wrote last week’s article entitled, Adobe Finally Brings Flash to iPhone and iPad. I got not one but several emails asking me what this really means, and one telling me that the day had come: Apple devices now support Flash and I’m wrong when I
Read More...Reflecting back on 9/11, I came across this over the past weekend. Worth a read even after the fact. Here’s Steve Hendrix, writing for the Washington Post: Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base and ready to fly. She
Read More...Carol Bartz has been fired from Yahoo and replaced, in the interim, by Tim Morse. Bartz sent this zinger of an email to the entire Yahoo staff upon receiving the news: From: “Carol Bartz” To: “all-worldwide@yahoo-inc.com” Subject: Goodbye To all, I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone
Read More...Fermilab astrophysicist Jason Steffen got to thinking about an everyday problem we all can agree needs some brianpower applied to it: how to make passengers board airplanes more efficiently. By design, he thought, passenger jets seem to encourage people to waste time. How to fix it? After a bit of tinkering, Steffen found a way:
Read More...Jean-Louis Gassée on Steve Jobs: When I first met Steve, in February 1981, he was sitting cross-legged on a credenza in the Apple board room, picking his toes. Since then I’ve watched with glee as he went against received wisdom, causing pundits to have fits at every turn. I picture them as a gaggle of
Read More...Contrary to what some backstreets of the ERP rumor mill will say, there’s a strong roadmap ahead for PeopleSoft, including a new current release of HCM and even a major release next year. Here’s InformationWeek’s Doug Henschen talking about what that means for Fusion and what mindset customers should consider adopting: …if PeopleSoft’s getting all
Read More...(Ed. Note: Lenore S. Litwin is MIPRO’s Director of HR.) Bear with me for a self-congratulatory moment? I was so proud to receive the announcement last week that MIPRO has once again been named one of ‘Metropolitan Detroit’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For.’ This makes six consecutive years that we have been so
Read More...Derrick Harris, writing for GigaOm: At Structure 2011 last month, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels told the crowd that S3 was storing 339 billion objects. At this same time last year, the service was only storing 262 billion objects. One might also draw a parallel to the ever-growing cloud revenues at Rackspace, the incredible amount of computing capacity AWS adds
Read More...Paul Thurrott: And I’d also point out that Google licenses Android for free. So by raising the price of Android by imposing licensing fees on technologies Android is in fact using, Apple, Microsoft, and others are arguably simply leveling the playing field and taking away an artificial Android advantage, forcing the OS to compete more
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