Category: Business
Shifty Jelly’s blog of mystery – You Guys Are Millionaires Right?
Pretty much exactly my answer when someone asks about pirating software.
Ars Technica – Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work
Ars answers my earlier question.
BBC News – Google kills off seven more products including Wave
So most of the products make sense to kill off they either never generated much traction or were already supposed to be cut.
Amazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer
I posted about this on Twitter, but it’s still a little astonding.
Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy
First Adobe kills Mobile Flash and now Flex looks like it’s about to wither away.
BBC News – Blackberry PlayBook operating software update delayed
Who could have guessed that people would want native email, calendar and contacts apps?
NYTimes.com – Bank of America Explains Web Site Problems
Bank of America, we weren’t hacked instead we are just incompetent.
Ars Technica – iPhone 4s out October 14, beefier specs, same body
Nice bump to an awesome phone.
FeeFighters – FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post
I’ve always felt the Better Business Bureau was a little scammy, nice to know they can’t take criticism as well.
NYTimes.com – Corporations Getting New Tools for Calculating Emissions
I would be skeptical of any tool able to reasonably estimate this in a meaningful way, just too many differences across the whole ecosystem of every product from the original ore being mined to manufacturing to shipping to use by the end user.