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A Computer That Doesn’t Feel Like A Computer Its not a geek device, its a computing appliance. The iPad is a computer with an iPhone OS. Not a full fledged Os like we’re used to, no multitasking, terminal, filesystems… Just a list of Apps...
I found the following comparison between the iPhone and the Droid ads hilarious.
Especially, the following Droid bullets: It is fast and it despises aesthetics. It is packaged inside missiles launched by stealth jets. (*) It is a robot and should mostly...
The Nuconomy team is expanding and we’re recruiting two developers and an operation manager for a new large scale web analytics project. So if you’re a kickass developer who’s interested in large scale computing and data processing, I’d like to hear from...
This couldn’t be more ironic. The title for the presentation by Dov Moran, CEO and Chairman of Modu, at the upcoming TheMarker convention: (translated from Hebrew: “How to go from a huge company to a large one, from large to medium, from medium to small...
Last week the NY Times reported that Twitter has raised about $100 million of new funding, making the company’s value to be $1 billion. Just to put things in perspective, they also provide an example:
For context, that is almost double the market capitalization...
Yahoo! is releasing its own distribution of Hadoop: Hadoop is a distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its users to process massive amounts of data. In response to frequent requests from the Hadoop community, Yahoo! is...
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) allows customers build secure, fault-tolerant applications that can scale up and down with demand, at low cost. One of the core features for achieving this kind of efficiency and fault-tolerant is the ability...
In a response to Microsoft watcher Todd Bishop’s post saying Microsoft should buy Twitter, Mary Jo-Foley wrote Microsoft Shouldn’t Buy Twitter saying: …But I’d argue Microsoft could simply do a Twitter clone — the same way that it has built its own Facebook...
I just finished installing Windows 7 Beta on my home machine to find a fish swimming on my desktop: But not just any fish, its a Siamese fighting fish , also knows a “betta fish” (or just “betta”). A subtle Microsoft joke? Hope it does a better job selectively...