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Louis CK is making ‘shitloads of money’

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:59:38 +0000

More 18,000 Likes and 11,000 Tweets for a media product not created by a big media company. The really, really cool thing about this story is the math underpinning it is easily understandable and, moreover, numbers of this size aren’t beyond what an average person can imagine. Is this enough to kill Universal, [...] Related posts:

WebOS a billion dollar gift from HP to open source community

John Lister — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:00:49 +0000

Only 20 months ago HP paid $1.2 billion to buy Palm, with webOS the apparent reason for the otherwise odd-seeming purchase. Now the company is releasing the system on an open source basis.

The move comes as HP completes [...] Related posts:

Mobile malware finds a home

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:15:01 +0000

What do you want in a smartphone? For many people, “is a phone, does that touch thing and can play Angry Birds” pretty much covers it. If the salesperson adds “free” or “buy one, get one free” to the pitch and the customer’s walking out the door with a bag.

Thereupon, pick a [...] Related posts:

Bombs hit Mumbai, geeks step into the breach

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:48:23 +0000

One of the most serious problems in the wake of any tragedy is matching those wanting to help with those in need. Whereas it can sometimes take days for government and NGOs to pull those threads together, one enterprising techie made this happen in a matter of minutes.

Once again Mumbai, [...] Related posts:

Senator wants net sales tax, more Web control

Michael W. Jones — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:31:06 +0000

There was a time when the Web was an interesting place, with lots of information, the possibilities for numerous virtual relationships, and much more, all in a relatively unregulated place. Say good-bye to all that.

Remember when the [...] Related posts:

Tablets, esp. iPad, will stay hot

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:37:44 +0000

When Gartner talks about tablets, people generally listen, and the latest from this most well-known of all analyst groups says that the tablet computer market is going to stay big, especially for Apple’s iPad.

Gartner believes that the tablet computer [...] Related posts:

Android’s Honeycomb is star of CES

Susan Wilson — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Android 3.0 also known as Honeycomb was the hit of CES this year. This version of Android developed specifically for tablet computers was [...] Related posts:

Russian government goes open source

John Lister — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:00:46 +0000

Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed an order to switch the country’s governmental computer systems to open source inside four years. It appears the move is financially rather than politically motivated.

The plan has three deadlines:

By the third quarter of 2011, officials must settle [...] Related posts:

Netflix: Google Android DRM too scattered

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:35:05 +0000

Google’s lack of control over their Android mobile operating system is causing streaming video giant Netflix to delay support for all Android devices and may keep it from supporting some handsets at all.

The great content deals for which Netflix [...] Related posts:

Apple sues Motorola over Droid patent infringement

Susan Wilson — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Well, this apparently is the season for suing rivals. Apple has recently filed two patent infringement lawsuits against Motorola, and lawsuits [...] Related posts: