Google have posted an update on their first round of submissions for the rollout of their fiber network. Turns out it’s a pretty popular scheme!
Aside from cities offering to change their name to secure some GOOG love, they had 1100 community and 194,000 individual responses.
You can read all about the responses and the next steps [...]
Gordon Ramsay’s certainly had his fair share of troubles recently and I’m sure many of his own restaurants have been going through some of the issues highlighted in his ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ series. If you don’t mind a weeks worth of swearing in one shot I find each episode good ‘train-wreck TV’ viewing.
If you boil each episode [...]
HTC have issued their formal response to Apple’s patent suit. I think you could say they appear to be ready for a fight..
HTC DISAGREES WITH APPLE’S ACTIONS
Seattle – March 17, 2010 – HTC Corporation today outlined its disagreement with Apple’s legal actions and reiterated its commitment to creating a portfolio of innovative smartphones that gives [...]
There’s been a lot of talk since the iPad announcement about whether the tablet market could act as the ’saviour’ for the magazine industry. Whilst it’s unlikely that every production could afford the lengths that these guys have gone to for every edition, VIV mag – an all digital magazine – have produced a very [...]
For those of you thinking about migrating from your Microsoft environment to the world of Google Apps (and plenty of folks seem to be), the GOOG today announced a free tool to help you do just that.
Here’s the full release from the IDG News Service:
” — Google has created a free tool to simplify and automate [...]
Over the years (from about the time that the dinosaurs ruled the Earth) I’ve been involved in developing and shipping many different products: from hardware to software, on, offline, mobile and most things in-between.
It struck me though that whilst the language may differ, the challenges for each were mostly common.
Given that every day is a [...]
In this week’s round-up, a few stories that we were too busy doing other more interesting things to write about at the time didn’t have time to cover as they broke:
- Google launched the Google App Marketplace. The App Marketplace ‘offers products and services designed for Google users, including installable apps that integrate directly with [...]
Interesting discussion over at Mark Suster’s blog around the phrase ‘fail fast’. Mark’s conjecture is that the phrase has been abused to the point where it simply means ‘keep doing anything and everything, spending as much of your investments as quickly as you can, until you happen to hit on the right thing’.
My thoughts on [...]
Not yet done with flashing their corporate Amex, CA today announced that they are acquiring Nimsoft. The terms of the deal are an all cash transaction valuing Nimsoft at $350million. Not a bad return on funding to date (in the $20million range).
Nimsoft are a provider of Unified Monitoring solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed [...]
An experience I had today reminded me of a recent post that was doing the rounds entitled ‘50 things your customers wish you knew‘
You’d like to hope that a list such as this was simple common sense and you wouldn’t have to spell it out: unfortunately it isn’t. And you do.
(warning, this story contains no [...]