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16y ago
When Thomas Edison passed, innovation did not come to a halt. Steve Jobs may well recover from his illness, I certainly hope he does, but nevertheless like the rest of us he is not immortal. At some point in the future, and maybe it's even
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Maybe instead of scaring you, it should provide you with comfort. Steve Jobs, after all, survived whatever he has been through. I'm not saying it's because of his diet - but who knows, it probably could not have hurt. But it's totally unpr
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16y ago
First of all, on the pancreatic cancer note - what he had was a curable type of cancer, a rare form, not your typical pancreatic cancer. What really is far more likely is transplant rejection, and his doctors probably asked him to take some
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16y ago
This is very true. In India IT is seen as a good career - it's something parents encourage their kids to go in to. There are very very few people who do it because they love technology. It's not common for grade school/high school kids to g
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The NYC technorati feel that with enough investments it will one day usurp the Valley as the technology hub of the world. I'm pretty certain that will NOT happen and it will be more widespread. In fact, places like Austin with it's climate,
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Facebook is different than Yahoo, Google, Microsoft etc, because of it's social aspect. There will be decades upon decades of memories, photos, videos and all the comments associated with them on fb that most people are not going to want to
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Actually the article is incorrect in suggesting Apple is deploying their own software for the Gap. It is actually implemented by a company called Global Bay. http://www.globalbay.com . I know the CEO, he's been traveling frequently to th
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Gap using iPod based point of sales systems
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16y ago
As an interesting side note, the COO Vinit Bharara's brother is the US Attorney for Manhattan (direct Obama appointee) Preet Bharara. In the news fairly often.