Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Down goes Yahoo mail
On Monday, October 26, disaster struck for users of Yahoo's e-mail system; the system went down like a punch-drunk boxer. Predictably,this sparked both outrage and widespread panic and emnity. Fascinatingly, this follows on the heels of Google Mail's similar outage recently. It just illustrates, yet again, the jeopardy of these systems. It also proves our own dependence on them. When they work, which is nearly all the time, life is blissful and easy. But, when the operation happens to go to hell, even for a brief period of time, we go to pieces.It shows how fragile we all have become in this technological world.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Google's gift to flyers
Google has built their empire primarily on giving goodies away for free. Most of their stuff is freely provided. And, counterintuitive though it may seem, it has paid off handsomely for them. It 's been wildly successfull. They are going back to that well yet again. From Nov 10 through Jan 15, Google will foot the bill for WiFi on all Virgin America flights. Normally, each passenger has to cough up $13 for WiFi. As the author on techcrunch notices, this is a genius marketing move by google. It is fabulous marketing; it shall engender goodwill for them. It's also a pretty sweet deal for Virgin America. I know I'd be more willing to fly their airline for free internet access.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
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