September 5, 2008 – 02:35 pm
From NY Times’s Google at Age 10: “Google’s revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $2.2 million; Microsoft’s revenue per hour in the last 4 quarters: $6.9 million.” [Editor's Note: How could any company fail if its brings in $2.2 or $6.9 million per hour? On the other hand, how does one measure the [...]
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Woman jailed for testicle attack: “Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage when Geoffrey Jones, 37, rejected her advances at the end of a house party…She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: ‘That’s yours.’”
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Sorry about not having links for most of this week. I’ve been pretty busy with my earn-a-paycheck work, and haven’t had the time to surf the web in my usual way. Anyway, on to the links:
Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple’s New Animated OS: “[Apple's new set of interface programming tools, called] Core Animation will [...]
From Windows Live Messenger: “i’m is a new initiative from Windows Liveâ„¢ Messenger. Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective organizations dedicated to social causes. We’ve set no cap on the amount we’ll donate to each organization. The [...]
Neowin.net has posted Bill Gates’ e-mail to employees. While he writes a bunch of non-interesting stuff, one thing he did say was that Microsoft has doubled revenues in six years and generated over a billion dollars in profit every month.
IN PROFIT!!!!
EVERY MONTH!!!
That’s just damn ridiculous.
No wonder the man is retiring to work full-time for [...]
I know I haven’t posted much on the Mac recently, by Daring Fireball has an interesting take on the Microsoft/Apple rivalry: “In the very worst tradition of punditry, allow me to make a sweeping generalization based on a few almost completely unrelated observations: Microsoft is suffering from a lack of confidence, and Apple is brimming [...]
April 24, 2006 – 02:09 pm
“Microsoft installs Silicon Valley’s largest solar panel system at its Mountain View campus…Generating 480kW at peak capacity, this system is composed of 2,288 tiles that will supply enough energy to power nearly 500 homes.” I got this from the Great News Network. See? I told you there was good news out there.
The New York Times is reporting that “Apple Computer introduced software today that it says will easily allow users to install Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system on Apple’s newest computers.” I think this is a smart move, or at the very least, a necessary move, since it was going to happen anyway, but I can’t [...]
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