Google+ designer and engineer Andy Hertzfeld, who we had the privilege of interviewing here, has just announced a small but notable new feature on Google+. The top black bar that has become an iconic new design feature of Google’s will now find a home for itself fixed to the top of your screen, so...
Daily Archives: August 18, 2011
Codecademy: A Slick, Fun Way To Teach Yourself How To Program
You’ve read the inspirational posts on Hacker News. You’ve purchased the recommended books. You’ve bookmarked the online tutorials. You even plopped down $80 on a set of instructional videos, promising yourself that the investment would only make you more motivated. And for some reason, you still don’t know how to program. Codecademy, a new...
Why Accenture’s CTO made the move to NoSQL startup CEO
In late June, Don Rippert left a nearly 30-year career at Accenture, where he was CTO, to serve as CEO of NoSQL database startup Basho. But why would someone leave a top role at a Fortune 500 company for a 40-person startup in a fairly niche market? According to Rippert, it’s because the work...
Augmented Reality Maps and Directions Coming to iPhone
In the not-too-distant future, iPhone users may be navigating around using an augmented reality interface that overlays all kinds of data relevant to their immediate location, as well as turn-by-turn traveling directions from one location to another. Instead of navigating as a little blue dot along a purple line on a 2D, birds-eye-view map,...
The truth about scoops
In the wake of Motorola-Google deal, Felix Salmon, one of the finest bloggers in New York, penned a piece, Whither the MA Scoop? Felix points out that “scoops are the most basic currently of business journalism” and they are what helped folks like Andrew Ross Sorkin become media “brand names” who then go on...
Analyst: Laptops Are Chaining Workers to Their Desks
Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. The “mix” between desktop and laptop PCs flipped toward the laptop side of the equation for...
“The tablet effect is real.”
On August 18, 2011, Hewlett-Packard announced plans to spin off its PC business. In 2001, they paid $25 billion for Compaq. They are also giving up on WebOS. A year ago they paid $1.2 billion for Palm. It seems the company is getting out of the commodity hardware business and is focused on becoming...
Big Question (Answered): "Is There a Drought of Big Ideas on the Internet/Tech Blogosphere?"
This week’s Motorola news seemed to create a great deal of stories, but very few were significantly deep. Richard wondered why Tech Media was so obsessed with Deals Rumors. The discussion in the comments was really great so we decided to ask you directly, “Is There a Drought of Big Ideas on the Internet/Tech...
The Market Has Spoken On HP’s Grand New Plan (HPQ, CRM, EMC)
Image: HP See Also: UPDATE: HP Earnings Show Why It Wants Out Of The PC Market CONFIRMED: HP Buys Autonomy For $10.2 Billion HP To Employees: “We’re Not Walking Away From WebOS” Hewlett-Packard did a bunch of things today: Reported Q3 earnings and revenue that came in right in line with expectations — better...
Microsoft Reveals Its Windows 8 Development Teams But Won’t Explain Them
Wrote Sinofsky: Windows is a fairly broad project made up of a set of coordinated smaller projects. When we started building Windows 8 we had a clear sense of the direction we were heading and so we built a team structure to support that direction. Many of the teams work together while at the...