Category: Google

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Architecture Astronomy

Microsoft is vacuuming up way too many programmers. Between Microsoft, with their shady recruiters making unethical exploding offers to unsuspecting college students, and Google (you’re on my radar) paying untenable salaries to kids with...

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Measuring Small Victories

Many months ago I emailed a friend in Google, peeved that it was impossible to get the US version of Google Maps to print out distances in metric. Apparently, someone eventually fixed this and...

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Last.FM Now Offers Full Media Streaming, and Unauthorised, Convenient Downloads

Last.FM (née AudioScrobbler), an early leader of social music consumption, was bought out a while back by CBS Broadcasting Inc, a huge US media conglomerate. One would expect this to be a Very Bad...

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Shell Game

Microsoft gets about 75 percent of its 40 billion dollars in revenue from licensing fees. A few years ago, it set up an Irish subsidiary called Round Island One Ltd. to own its 16...

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Google Got IMAP

Saw this and checked and, yes, it seems that after literally years of retarded obstinance, Google has finally enabled IMAP for its GMail email service. I just checked and the option appears on the...