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Stephen Colbert makes Bing donate $100K for oil spill(blog.seattlepi.com)
94 points by awa 16y ago|36 comments
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by awa 16y ago
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/ic/segments_edd.aspx Look at Operating income chart on the right (set is as year to date). They made 0.2 Billion in FY 09 and have made 0.9 Billion USD in FY 10 till now (includes projected earning for Q3)
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by awa 16y ago
I think he wants to say AT&T should get the users hooked to using lot of data, so they as a subscription company can keep making money from users for a longer time.
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by awa 16y ago
Take .Net for another instance, totally new thing, very few bet on it but is a good success for Microsoft. Also consider S&T (server & Tools) in the last decade, MS has been able to grow huge profits from that division, Very few peo
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by awa 16y ago
Xbox is a prime example of a new product line which has become profitable for the company even though critics were out for the division's head when it was loosing money.
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by awa 16y ago
Nope. Apple put the app back because of the bad press they are getting. I am sure if this wasn't all over the Internet pulse would have been back.
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by awa 16y ago
Also, how would you detect fakes! I can say I bought 1000 $AAPL at 80 last year and sold them for 270 this year to get some karma. Look at http://profit.ly for a twitter like take on stocks
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by awa 16y ago
EU didn't. Microsoft had to add the stupid browser select screen. Support odf in Office. And do a lot more documentation work on all their API that few people outside Microsoft use. Plus the fines. And while Microsoft was dealing saving its
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Washington Sprint stores sell out of HTC Evo 4G(seattletimes.nwsource.com)
2 points by awa 16y ago|0 comments
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by awa 16y ago
Coz OSX doesn't run >90% of world's computer. Else it would have been same
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by awa 16y ago
What Apple is doing with their App store policies is far worse than packaging IE with windows or using proprietary .doc format by default for word files. It would be hard for Apple to reach market shares as great as MS, if they do you will
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by awa 16y ago
You made $1300 the first month you offered the product. how much time did it take to develop it.
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by awa 16y ago
I agree with you, but it would be interesting to see what he truly feels about Apple success because of his history with Steve Jobs
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by awa 16y ago
That would make a entertaining game of soccer won't it. Everybody trying to score on their own goal.
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by awa 16y ago
Not a good PR day for AT&T today
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by awa 16y ago
yup, if I am on one of these plans, I no longer will try new apps when somebody mentions it, also, i will quickly uninstall /switch off(try to) all apps/settings which sends data to ATT and Apple to make "my" iPhone experience better
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by awa 16y ago
Hmm.. I find it interesting that they have kept IE6, FF 3, Chrome 3, Opera 9.6 and Safari 3 in far-past category. Doesn't IE6 is Far-far past then?
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by awa 16y ago
I might be totally wrong, but the date (June 7) and the fact that this is being announced just after a month of iPad launch might mean Apple might have dropped a bomb on AT&T internally (like no more exclusivity) which would be announce
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by awa 16y ago
If I was looking for a job and found a job ad with no contact information, I would see it possibly as spam/scam/non-serious recruiting activity unless I have had heard of the company (in that case I would be looking at their career section
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Tropical storm leaves more than 115 dead in Central America - CNN.com(cnn.com)
1 points by awa 16y ago|0 comments
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by awa 16y ago
Clickable: http://todoneapp.com/
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by awa 16y ago
Add MSFT and put the graph in Max, gives another interesting perspective
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by awa 16y ago
The dev team would be behind schedule and the PMs would be very proud that they are macho enough to drop certain features in order to ship Whats wrong with the above?
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by awa 16y ago
but then there aren't many places where you can basically work whatever you want to on. Take Allard example, he has worked on TCP/IP protocol in Windows, Internet explorer, Xbox, Zune, and now courier.
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by awa 16y ago
yup, having a photo associated with a phone number is more concerning than a name. In this case you can actually say, Think of all the children!
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by awa 16y ago
Well, nobody is forcing the merchants to sign up with Groupon instead of Tippr or Living social, there are enough competitors out there now that merchants can sign up with the company they want.
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by awa 16y ago
Well, most users would trust the service/company less after such an incidence. Also, not everybody does a evaluation on every service every day. I guess most do a analysis when signing up and would either forget about it until they hear of
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by awa 16y ago
Yup... Onenote is basically the new version of Word for me and the 2010 version is slicker than the last one. Also, you should have a look at Canvas for Onenote if you like a higher level view of your notebooks. http://www.officelabs.com/p
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by awa 16y ago
Nope. FTA: RB: If the platform was holding up fine, what prompted the change of architecture? RC: Money.
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by awa 16y ago
There's already a frontpage news regarding this... Why the dupes?

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