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Chicago in summer. Err March @ 79F

Stefan Birrer — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:28:00 GMT

Chicago in summer. Err March @ 79F

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St. Paddy's day around the corner...

Stefan Birrer — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:28:39 GMT

St. Paddy's day around the corner...

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Fun in the cloud... http://feeds.dilbert.com/~r/DilbertDailyStrip/~3/-_EV412E0nk/

Stefan Birrer — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:48:28 GMT

Fun in the cloud...

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Abusive customer relationship http://feeds.dilbert.com/~r/DilbertDailyStrip/~3/kya3EsnR8ag/

Stefan Birrer — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:03:04 GMT

Abusive customer relationship
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Lombard Street at 65F

Stefan Birrer — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:22:09 GMT

Lombard Street at 65F

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Google is now the largest DNS service http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/Z2H4eWmL6tQ...

Stefan Birrer — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:12:22 GMT

Google is now the largest DNS service http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/Z2H4eWmL6tQ/google-public-dns-70-billion-requests.html

Customer support, anyone!?! http://feeds.dilbert.com/~r/DilbertDailyStrip/~3/KgItyKsF74Q/

Stefan Birrer — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:03:08 GMT

Customer support, anyone!?!

http://feeds.dilbert.com/~r/DilbertDailyStrip/~3/KgItyKsF74Q/

Curebit Apologizes for Copying 37Signals: “Stupid, Lazy, and Disrespectful”

Stefan Birrer — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:56:45 GMT

Curebit Apologizes for Copying 37Signals: “Stupid, Lazy, and Disrespectful”

That’s awkward: Just as it was announcing a $1.2 million round of funding, online referral startup Curebit was caught lifting designs and code from 37Signals, the company behind popular collaboration tools Basecamp, Highrise, and others.
The copying was called out on Twitter by 37Signals partner David Heinemeier Hansson, who, after an exchange with Curebit co-founder Allan Grant, called the Curebit team “fucking scumbags.” It probably didn’t help that Grant’s initial responses didn’t seem par...

Hosting Decisions by YCombinator Companies in 2011

Stefan Birrer — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:28:08 GMT

Hosting Decisions by YCombinator Companies in 2011

Ever wonder what other companies are choosing for hosting, Email, DNS, etc.? As it happens, there's an app for that (so to speak) and someone put the Y Combinator companies under the microscope. With 248 companies examined, you get some pretty interesting results. If Y Combinator companies are the future, Google is looking really good for email hosting, and Amazon is doing really well for Web Hosting.
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One of the surprises, for me at least, was the fact that even after all the SOPA pr...

Damning Evidence Emerges In Google-Apple “No Poach” Antitrust Lawsuit

Stefan Birrer — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:01:39 GMT

Damning Evidence Emerges In Google-Apple “No Poach” Antitrust Lawsuit

Next week a class-action civil lawsuit will be heard in San Jose to determine if Google, Apple, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intel, and Intuit conspired to eliminate competition for skilled labor. In anticipation of the hearing, TechCrunch has obtained evidence from the Department of Justice’s investigation in 2010 which was made public this evening for the first time. It appears to support the plaintiff’s case that the defendant companies tried to suppress employee compensation by entering into ...

iSuppli Agrees With IDC, Gartner: Windows Phone To Surpass iOS By 2015

Stefan Birrer — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:57:04 GMT

iSuppli Agrees With IDC, Gartner: Windows Phone To Surpass iOS By 2015

Nobody wants to give Windows Phone a chance except for Robin and a whole bunch of analysts. Back in September, IDC and Gartner predicted that Windows would overtake iOS for the number two spot in the market by 2015, and Windows Phone head of marketing Achim Berg called that prediction conservative.
Now iSuppli has joined in, predicting that Windows Phone will grab a 16.7 percent market share by 2015, while Apple’s market share is expected to decline from 18 percent to 16.6 percent in 2015.
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Larry Page: Display Advertising Is A $5 Billion Business

Stefan Birrer — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:55:48 GMT

Larry Page: Display Advertising Is A $5 Billion Business

The engine of Google’s business is search advertising, but its display advertising business is becoming a very large business. During today’s earnings call, CEO Larry Page that Google’s display advertising business is at an “annualized run rate of $5 billion.” That doesn’t mean that $5 billion of Google’s $38 billion in revenues in 2011 came from display advertising. It means that if you annualize the display advertising revenues in the fourth quarter, you would get $5 billion.
When you back ...

Improvement On Age-Old Mathematical Principle Could Yield Improved Images, Video

Stefan Birrer — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:40:58 GMT

Improvement On Age-Old Mathematical Principle Could Yield Improved Images, Video

It’s not often that you improve on a bit of math that has been around for 200 years. The Fourier transform was first proposed in 1811 by a Frenchman named Joseph Fourier, though it wasn’t until the middle of the 20th century that he was given the credit he deserved. His technique broke down a complex signal into a number of component signals, which could be transmitted or processed separately and then recombined to produce the original in a fairly nondestructive way.
In 1965 the Fourier trans...

Wikipedia will go dark to protest SOPA http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JrKSbObMUZo/

Stefan Birrer — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:46:06 GMT

Wikipedia will go dark to protest SOPA
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ITC Sides With Motorola In Key Apple Patent Suit

Stefan Birrer — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:13:55 GMT

ITC Sides With Motorola In Key Apple Patent Suit

Back in fall 2010, Apple filed suit against Motorola alleging that the company was violating several of its patents with its flagship line of Droid smartphones, all of which run Android. The case was filed with the US International Trade Commission — a favorite battleground for these smartphone suits, as it has the ability to block potentially infringing devices from import into the United States.
Today, Motorola has gotten some good news: the ITC has released its initial determination on the...