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Nokia and Microsoft to “spend a fortune on marketing” HT: @TheTechEye # why this will not work
Via @TheTechEye Rumours that Microsoft and Nokia are set to spend over $100 million on marketing Windows 8 tablets and smartphones are rubbish, according to veteran vole-watcher Paul Thurrott, who claims that they are going to spend a lot more. Thurrott said that he has been given the real marketing figure and it is a…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-06
New: #Airzound – A New Toy! #cycling #mtb http://t.co/q4LKP9x3 # @dc4420 Is there a meeting on the 17th ? Got speakers ? # New: Falling off a cycle has never been so much fun… http://t.co/DHluGniI # New: How many vendors have 'celebrated' the 'death' of their software? #ie6 http://t.co/GUnxlJYr http://t.co/ABDvkKlr # :: Why you might…
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NASA go open-source
No, really. I have no idea what this will achieve, but given what they have aegis over it is bound to be interesting…
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So it seems that with the takeover of TweetDeck comes the death of RTs that propagate to Facebook.
Bummer. We shall have to take other measures…
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This is what happens then you sand a macbook…
http://www.reddit.com/tb/o48iv Like, but… no.
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Do not taunt the frog…
It’s been blogged everywhere, but just in case you missed it: http://youtu.be/WlEzvdlYRes
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Why you might like to read Foreign Affairs magazine this month…
tl;dr – read this link, all of it. I used to read The Economist – until I economised. I’d subscribed on the personal recommendation of ESR who said it was some of the best writing I’d find in a news journal; and then later – as a consultant – I kept it up because as…
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How many vendors have ‘celebrated’ the ‘death’ of their software? #ie6 http://goo.gl/9pSBh
Microsoft celebrates IE6 death as Google downranks Chrome Microsoft could not be happier to see the back of IE6 The software giant held the light-hearted celebration as it revealed that the program was used by less than 1% of US internet surfers. …it’s still rather popular in UK Government circles, at least as-of mid 2010.…
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Falling off a cycle has never been so much fun…
So for a few years I’ve had a Ridgeback Quest 29″ MTB and it’s never been quite right – incremental improvements have, um, improved it, but the biggest issue for me was always going to be that the steerer had been cut for an average British shortarse rather than someone for whom the adjective lumbering…
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#Airzound – A New Toy! #cycling #mtb
A couple of days ago I was out on my mountainbike and got cut up my a 4×4 while turning right at a T-junction; I was placed as one would a car but a woman who had picked up her family at Winchfield station placed herself to the left of me, and pulled across my…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-04
#Horden deaths inquiry focuses on six weapons licences http://t.co/jIpSlvmO # Why? Does that somehow exacerbate murder? # Windy in the UK this morning; 5am was woken by the howl of wind in the chimney, serious storm stuff # New version of #Nmap released: http://t.co/d46LVGcE # yay toyz # One for @chrisgerhard and @bubbva : http://t.co/UTmxKpcq…