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Comment It depends... (Score 0) 239

For me, everything is developed in-house, does not care if project is delayed, manger encourages rewrite of the entire project when a newer version of the tool is released and lastly but not least they pay developers boat load of money and do not have to work more than 8 hours and don't have to support if it fails in the production.

Comment Windows Vista Revisits... (Score 1) 630

I have installed the consumer preview. I cannot stand the Metro interface with Mouse and Keyboard. My colleague has it on a tablet and it seems to work fine with fingers. This is similar to Vista when all the tech bloggers had bad reviews on it and still MS made billions on it. Same thing happens, by Windows 9, they will have users adopted to this UI or tweaked it like they did in Windows7.

Comment Re:Lovely and Intuitive? (Score 1) 500

I am not sure what you mean by decent amount of text. If you meant, dos prompt you don't need a 24" monitor either. They demoed the thing on a 80" touchscreen. Engadget has photo of it. Also in the consumer preview they have added more keyboard shortcuts. According to some who has tested the consumer preview, Windows 8 has more keyboard shortcuts than previous versions of Windows. From what I see, they removed the start menu and made a huge set of tiles that launches the application.

Comment 15 bucks when they made billions (Score 1) 130

Let us just take 21 million customers (as indicated in the article) for calculation puposes. They are making around $500 bucks on each of the phone according to http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/06/apple-maintains-big-margins-on-iphone-4s-according-to-ubm-analysis//BGR. Now they have to pay what $300 Million. WOW nice go
Google

Submission + - Senior Google Executives knew about Illicit Pharma (wsj.com)

CSHARP123 writes: More information related to Illicit Phrama ads that cost Google about $500 million was revealed by WSJ earlier today. According to the article, even Larry Page knew about the illicit operations and did not put an end to it. Federal officials approached Google with evidence of its employees' wrongdoing in mid-2009. After two years of negotiation, Google agreed to pay $500 million to settle the allegations and ward off criminal charges against the company

Submission + - 50 cent (50-cent.org)

analttech writes: "50 Cent is a well known American musician, singer and rapper that is also popular all around the world. This is the fan site of this great singer and we are providing you some special information about him and also suggesting you the special software which will allow you to download 50 Cent music for free, as well as many other rappers, singers and musicians."
Cloud

Submission + - What happens to your files when a cloud service sh (extremetech.com) 2

MrSeb writes: "Megaupload's shutdown poses an interesting question: What happens to all the files that were stored on the servers? XDA-Developers, for example, has more than 200,000 links to Megaupload — and this morning, they're all broken, with very little hope of them returning. What happens if a similar service, like Dropbox, gets shut down — either through bankruptcy, or federal take-down? Will you be given a chance to download your files, or helped to migrate them to another similar service? What about data stored on enterprise services like Azure or AWS — are they more safe?"
Google

Submission + - DOJ Investigates Google, Apple, and others in Info (techcrunch.com)

CSHARP123 writes: The Department of Justice launched an investigation into the "No Poaching" agreement between Apple and Google in 2010, but details of the case were only made public for the first time yesterday. TechCrunch was the first to sift through the documents, and has uncovered some ostensibly incriminating evidence against not only Google and Apple, but Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intel, and Intuit, as well. According to the filings from the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, these companies did indeed enter "no poach" agreements with each other, and agreed to refrain soliciting employees. The documents also indicate that they collectively sought to limit their employees' power to negotiate for higher salaries.

Comment What else would he say? (Score 1) 431

This is the guy who said "If you have something you dont want anyone to know then you shouldn't be doing" and this is the guy who said not use G+ if you don't want to share real name. He is the chairman of the company, he will try to put positive spin on negatives of their product. The only thing I hope is he just shut up
Firefox

Submission + - Google renews firefox search deal (bbc.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: Google has renewed a deal to remain the default search engine within Mozilla's Firefox web browser.

Mozilla said it had "negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement" with Google for the next three years.

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