I got an email from MediaTemple today reminding me that there would be really long downtime on Friday night since they will be upgrading their power redundancies. The cool part was were they referenced rackspace for their recent catastrophe. So basically, if any of MediaTemple customers weren’t aware of the Dallas accident(36 hour downtime), they [...]
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Spanish 101 for Windows Vista
Videos doesn’t have a tilde in English nor Spanish. How about using spell checker for you own interfaces…or going down the block to any of the 4,985 mexican results near Redmond (courtesy of Google Maps)!
Thanks to Max, for pointing that out!
Google going greener than just the L
Google can be considered a green company, not because of what it says now, but because of what it’s done in the past:
-Sergey and Larry own Priuses
-The Googleplex solar panels
-Google.org green investment fund
-Positioning of data centers near cheap renewable hydroelectric power in Oregon
Now it has actually committed to developing electricity from renewable energy sources!
Why? It [...]
Christmas gift idea!!!
Not sure what to give that special someone this Christmas…how about the gift that keeps on giving (no, not STDs)….how about Vista!!!! According to CNet UK, it is among the Top 10 worst products! So why does it keep on giving…..cause you need more hardware all the time to keep it afloat…
Ok, not a very [...]
Apple Mexico: How about Colombia?
So Apple officially opened the doors to their online Mexico Store, which is the obvious first as a Latin American move.
Now, think about the most extreme emerging market in the world and the third biggest country south of Rio Grande: If you said Colombia, you’ve probably seen the title spoiler.
Colombians want Macs too!!! [...]
Google resorts to crowdsourcing for mas
Google maps just released an interesting but dead simple feature to start correcting business locations:
Now you can find it on Google Maps and move the marker to its front door. You might just save someone’s date with this information! Fixing markers can be downright addictive. I’ve spent hours using Street View to locate businesses and [...]
Amazon going treeless!
Details are starting to resurface on Amazon’s plans to launch it’s answer to the digital book revolution (hopefully something cool, unlike the previous mockup from Engadget).
Will publishers play nicer than other old media companies(and learn from other’s mistakes) is yet to be said. For people to overcome the weirdness of not reading a paper [...]
Warner CEO Finally Accepts His Screw Up
I never though I would live to see the day that Edgar Bronfman (CEO Warner Music) actually admit the whole music industry was so screwed up. He praised Apple at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau while addressing a speech to mobile operators, pleading them to not make the same mistakes they did. [...]
Sneaky Sneaky Price of the Week: Google for Andoroid’s Java
Summary: Google took the Java language syntax, and changed the Virtual Machine.
Dalvik: How Google Routed Around Sun’s IP-Based Licensing Restrictions on Java ME
(Via Daring Fireball.)
Wall Street Journal opens the Door to Digg (keeps the Walls up)
So after the purchase of the Wall Street Journal by Murdoch and Company, we’ve seen some interesting changes happen in the company. First off, the started expanding and plan to offer content like the Reuturs/Ap does. Now they are allowing traffic from Digg to enter for free!
Although surprising, it’s actually kind of interesting. Digg has [...]