Month: September 2005
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What sealed Palm’s software fate?
So, PalmOS ends up in the hands of an Japanese mobile browser company that almost no one has ever heard of. It’s a sad sign that expectations for PalmOS software have been so low, for so long, that PalmSource stock leapt 70 per cent on the news. The origins of this decline have been well…
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Google hires ‘Astro’ Cerf
Vint Cerf, co-author of the TCP/IP protocol, has become Google’s latest trophy hire. The ad broker must be hoping that Cerf, hired for the PR position of “chief evangelist”, can add some gravitas to the operation after weeks of bad publicity. A poorly judged flounce saw Google vow to shun CNet’s reporters for a year, and the…
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Burning Man, meet Drowning Man
Silicon Valley’s freak-out meets Katrina, with a bump The writer had found an elusive internet connection, and reaching beyond exhaustion was finding words to record the madness around him: “We are operating on something beyond tired, beyond care, beyond recognition,” he wrote. “You just keep going, because you have no choice.” New Orleans? No, Burning…