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Apple's Deals May Transform Digital Music(businessweek.com)
3 points by ansy 15y ago|3 comments
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Ballmer's greatest failure was not giving Windows Mobile the attention it needed. I might even call it a critical failure. That was Microsoft's core competency and somehow the opportunity was completely blown. If Microsoft put the same comm
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Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?&docId=1000691231 It's almost time someone made a meta-store for managing assets across multiple stores. As a side note it appears the Amazon store is reportedly DRM laden [1]. I won
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What about frid.ge? It seems to solve all the problems Altly has with Facebook. And the execution seems fine aside from leaning heavily on the refrigerator theme. http://frid.ge
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Aspheric electrons help explain the imbalance between matter and antimatter under many current models. I don't know the full implications if electrons were spherical. But two I can think of are that either our models are wrong or there is s
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Note that whether electrons are spherical or not is important to theoretical physics. Right now we do NOT want them to be perfect spheres. But, as you say, our ability to measure this is limited by our instruments. Keep in mind that many im
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To be fair with the analogy, McDonalds did not invent fast food. Drive ins and walk up fast food burger joints were everywhere before McDonalds started. McDonalds just took efficiency to a whole new level. It used processes that pushed mode
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We don't have plenty of bandwidth with mobile applications. It's quite common for even basic sites to slow to a crawl on 3G. Even with LTE just around the corner, richer multimedia at higher resolutions will partially offset those gains. No
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I think what you're saying is that Zynga is so good at business it succeeds fantastically despite its products. That translates to a great company in Wall Street terms. Look at McDonalds. McDonalds certainly didn't invent the hamburger. McD
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Apple Store 2.0 goes live. All info cards replaced with iPads(macstories.net)
2 points by ansy 15y ago|0 comments
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This is just my theory, but saying LinkedIn was scammed because the IPO was underpriced is like saying Sony or Nintendo were screwed by shortages on the PS2 or Wii. LinkedIn sold a tiny fraction of its shares, far less than the market would
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Original source: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/05/malware-on-the-mac... From the Hacker News Guidelines[1]: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." T
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ITA's site actually predates Hipmunk and the Google merger. The reason ITA keeps it a secret is because ITA is a middleware company and not consumer facing. Bing, Hipmunk, Kayak, Orbitz, Hotwire, and many more are all customers of ITA[1] an
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Does anyone know if fetch.io or put.io caches requests across accounts? It seems like a pretty obvious optimization, but neither services advertises this ability. Find appropriate torrent, it already exists on the server, start streaming im
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While that is true, notice Amazon didn't mention the revenue from Kindle books, just the units sold. The majority of those Kindle sales could be from $0.99 bargain books. In a way that would be even better for Amazon because it means the Ki
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This seems highly plausible given 1) Microsoft's $42 billion cash balance in Europe, $33 billion after Skype purchase 2) Microsoft's success with the Xbox model 3) Microsoft's looming failure with its current WP7 strategy 4) Nokia's patents
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Although the blog states Apple, Google and Microsoft have a deal for themselves and Lodsys is not specifically seeking a broader deal to cover third parties as well, it seems rather obvious Apple et al would be much better off collecting th
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I'd have to guess WWU is disappointed its CS department isn't self sustaining from grant money so this is a kick in the pants to the faculty. It is my impression, which could be wrong, that most academic computer science is money making, at
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Throwing up slides and recorded lectures is one thing. But most of these courses require you to buy the appropriate textbook which, while cheaper than tuition, isn't exactly a low barrier to entry. You really can't can't replace a college c
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Original from PARC: http://blogs.parc.com/blog/2011/05/from-creation-myth-to-the... For myself, this is part of why I'm not a big Malcolm Gladwell fan. Whether it's his articles, his TED talks, or his books, I always feel like he's abusin
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You guys do realize that SAP is at least one order of magnitude larger than Skype, right? It rings in at a $77 BILLION in market cap on the NYSE[1]. I'm not even sure that represents SAP's total value, either. There seems to be a separate l
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Humorous how the article recommends the US can take the suggested 5% repatriating tax revenue and use it to give a tax break. So the net repatriating tax revenue to the US government would be 0%? Ah, WSJ. On the other hand dropping the tax
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Interesting point about taxes. Can anyone confirm if this is how it works? What prevents Microsoft Europe from buying an entity in the United States and holding the new company in Europe? It's not like other European entities need to pay ta
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Original Source: http://www.pyramidresearch.com/points/item/110509.htm Interesting webOS is left off the the chart entirely despite the support of HP while magically the support of Nokia is enough to catapult Windows ahead of everyone. If
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Your arguments throughout this thread aren't substantive because you're basically giving anecdotal evidence which is worthless. The healthcare industry is enormous. It's a huge political issue in most developed nations. Currently health car
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See patent liability insurance or errors and omissions insurance. Just because people don't get it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Doctors get malpractice insurance because they need it. As soon as software entrepreneurs need patent liabili
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Apple does not indemnify its developers against patent claims so unless a suit is brought against Apple directly it doesn't technically need to do anything. This is a taste of Apple's own medicine from when it brought suit against weaker de
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http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100820PD215.html It doesn't sound like Mirasol will be produced in volume until 2012. Given the necessary lead time to stock components for a major device launch, devices that use Mirasol will be late 2012
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You may want to check out http://wufoo.com for some data collection tasks. Also, I recommend trying out a hosted wiki and Google Docs. Having a shared Google Docs spreadsheet will probably be more functional than anything you can build wi
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I think that is fanciful thinking. Mirasol is not ready for prime time. Also, Bezos says such a device would supplement rather than replace the Kindle. So it stands to reason we can expect something more like an iPad. I think an Amazon bran

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