Monthly Archives: December 2008

What App Store Effect?

All this talk about the App Store is bugging me. Developers claim that the App store is flooded by 99 cent applications and as such there is no room for more expensive applications for reasons three: 1. The most popular paid applications are almost always 99 cents and they’re only popular because they’re cheap. 2. Development costs prohibit [...]
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Sleep

Who can argue with an extra hour? A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Christopher King and colleagues from the University of Chicago has found a relationship between sleep quantity (hours spent asleep) and calcium build up — or calcification — in the arteries that supply the heart muscle [...]
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That Which We Let Meltdown

Red Hat shakes off economic meltdown: In the third quarter of fiscal 2009 ended November 30, which had the global economic meltdown smack dab in the middle of it, Red Hat reported software subscription sales of $135.5m, up 17 per cent, with training and services sales of $29.9m, up 52.1 per cent. Open Source is *in* and [...]
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The Difference

Some interesting questions have been raised in response to news of the news industry. * Slashdot asks: Are Newspapers Doomed? * The New Yorker details the many mistakes of the newspaper industry. The New Yorker asserts that the consumer changed while the newspapers did not. I agree with this in certain respects. Consumers have embraced technology and [...]
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A Christmas Miracle

A classic
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