Smartphone Musical Chairs
Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 32.2 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 15.7 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2007, according to Gartner, Inc. In addition, of all mobile device...
Category: Microsoft
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...
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...
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...
Facebook Worth $15 Billion?!?
Microsoft paid $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Facebook, valuing the rapidly uglifying website at an impressive $15 billion. Given that this comes shortly after Ebay finally admitted it overspent for Skype by...
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...