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Apple Allows Lotus On iPhone (After Banning Competitor) 150

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @08:44AM from the stay-classy-apple dept.

ImNotAtWork writes "Apple is allowing IBM's Lotus to be installed on iPhones. Recently it killed a developer-submitted program that was deemed competitive with Apple's product."

Feed O2 confirms XDA Zinc zapped (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @06:52AM

HTC-made XDA Trion the replacement?

It's official: mobile phone network has canned the XDA Zinc, the 3G PDA phone the carrier originally planned to release in January but delayed to March. The Zinc failed to pass the carrier's network tests, an O2 spokeswoman confirmed today.

Feed Carphone Warehouse leaves caller hanging on telephone (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @06:52AM

And bills him for the privilege

Punters calling the Reading branch of Carphone Warehouse (CPW) to find out the status of their phone repairs are being routed to a socket with no phone attached and charged for the privilege of listening to it fail to ring.

Comment Re:d4 (Score 1) 243

by gs2 on Thursday March 22, 2007 @10:40AM (#18443083) Attached to: Dungeons & Dragons and IT

Daggers are tiny weapons & and deal 1d4 piercing damage vs. medium creatures, short swords are small weapons & deal 1d6 piercing damage vs. medium creatures.

Actually, with the introduction of 3.5, weapon size categories are equal to the size category of the creature it was designed for. Relative weapon size is listed as "Light", "One-Handed" and "Two-Handed", and both a dagger and a short sword are in the "Light" category.

Google Winning By Losing? 226

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @02:53AM from the brilliant-if-deliberate dept.

eldavojohn writes "The CEO of a small search company wrote an interesting piece for Search Insider about Google's unique strategy. It notes that Google has yet to become a leader in any technology other than search — but that its mostly unsuccessful attempts to branch out all end up bolstering its brand, and thus its search ad revenue. Is the new recipe for success to do one thing unbelievably well and several other things indifferently? Does this remind you of strategies from any other companies?" From the article, "Some of Google's non-search projects are really extensions of its search monetization, and are likely to succeed. But others projects mean entering areas where Google doesn't have much experience, and is taking a risk. With regard to those riskier areas, the key question for Google's future is whether it can realize that losing is really one of the best assets the company has."

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