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Big Blue bans Siri
Saucy Siri is not welcome at IBM. She has been banned outright for loose speech. IBM says it is not sure what Apple does with the voice queries. Your iPhone will work at the IBM campus, but Siri will be … Continue reading
Facebook IPO: the headlines after the hype
The headlines after Facebook’s stock market debut make for interesting reading. Reuters captured the mood of the media with “Historic Facebook debut falls flat”. Bloomberg was in the same vein, “Facebook Fails Day-One Pop, Lags Behind Google”. LA Times was … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Innovation, Internet, Social media
Tagged Facebook IPO, Innovation, internet, social media
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Is the Internet killing the book reading habit?
I bought eight books yesterday. Two by Theroux, Kerouac’s classic on the road, Tim Smith’s on Ibn Battuta’s trail, a wonderful little book on mankind’s fascination with the end of mankind, Sun Tzu’s art of war, one about the biggest … Continue reading
Can one ‘inadvertently’ become a computer engineer?
Yahoo’s new CEO, Scott Thompson, is under fire, and it’s not for Yahoo’s performance. In his resume Scott claimed he was a computer engineer. Turns out that he is not a computer engineer, far from it, and instead has a … Continue reading
Dating app raises 22 million dollars
Dating apps are finally coming of age. Skout, an iPhone app with over a million users, has just raised 22 million dollars. This iPhone app, says cyberdatingexpert.com, identifies singles in the immediate vicinity and gives members the opportunity to flirt … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneuring, Humor, Innovation, Internet
Tagged dating apps, humor, investment bubble, skout
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