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August 03 2010
April 22 2010
Apple surpasses Microsoft's market cap -- sort-of [Macworld]
It's the 'float-adjusted' market cap, that doesn't include untraded stock. Still, even the complete market cap is only about 15% below MS.March 09 2010
Are Macs Really Cheaper To Manage Than PCs? [CIO.com]
"The survey found that Macs were cheaper in six of seven computer management categories: troubleshooting, help desk calls, system configuration, user training and supporting infrastructure (servers, networks and printer). Nearly half of the respondents cited software licensing fees as roughly the same for both platforms. A whopping 65 percent of respondents said it costs less to troubleshoot Macs than PCs, 19 percent said they spent the same on both computers, and only 16 percent said they spent less to manage PCs than Macs. Even more impressive, a majority of the respondents citing the low cost of Macs in nearly all categories said Macs were more than 20 percent cheaper to manage than PCs."December 03 2009
My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement [Too Much Joy]
Further depressing realities of how much the major record labels screw artists, this time carelessly forgetting to pay them royalties for digital downloads/streaming.December 29 2008
What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting - NYTimes.com
“But text messages are not just tiny; they are also free riders, tucked into what’s called a control channel, space reserved for operation of the wireless network. ... The channel uses space whether or not a text message is inserted. “‘Operating costs are relatively insensitive to volume,’ he said. ‘It doesn’t cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million.’”November 23 2008
Lessons of Survival, From the Dot-Com Attic [NYTimes]
“48 percent of dot-com companies founded since 1996 were still around in late 2004 ... Mr. Kirsch says that most people are stunned by this figure; they tend to guess that about 90 percent of companies failed. ... The dot-com survival rate is as good as or better than that for technologies like automobiles, tires and televisions in their formative years. Many of the companies that survived the dot-com bust did so by ignoring the prevailing “Get Big Fast” business model”
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