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Yahoo Screws Up Again

Yahoo. Now With More Fail

Dear Yahoo,

You’ve been around the internet longer than some of us have been alive. You are the internet’s senile grandpa in many ways: farting, fumbling and bumbling his way through the last years of a life of regret, waving his proverbial stick at the younger, flashier grandkids who never fail to parade their shiny new toys at the dinner table. When I feel more sympathetic, I like to see you as the internet’s Milton Waddams, though I’m certain that less than 1% of your staff will get the reference.

That you’ve sucked hard for almost a decade is apparent to anyone who visits your largely clueless site. Even as the world has embraced, and then ditched Web 2.0, you’ve steadfastly stuck to an old, irrelevant portal model. The world’s tweeting, making dozens of friends on Facebook, and playing SomeVille, but you’d much rather publish hastily written, poorly worded articles on ‘New! Exciting! Fall Fashion Trends with Hot Hot Hot Models!’

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“You Expect Better From Us”

When an iconic mobile manufacturer stuck in a seemingly never ending downward spiral faces its worst service outage since its inception, you’d expect it to be a bit defensive and reticent.

The Blackberry service issue that hit millions of users across the globe elicited little response from the Canadian smartphone manufacturer, aggravating customer rage. Yesterday, though, RIM co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis issued a statement on the RIM website that was delightfully honest.

“We did not deliver on that goal this week, not even close. …You expect better from us, and I expect better from us.”

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Apple vs Samsung: Patent Wars

Apple Successfully Stops Samsung From Selling the Galaxy Tab in Australia

When the no.1 smartphone manufacturer in the world collides with its fast-gaining no.2 competitor, sparks are expected to fly.

A day after Samsung crashed Apple’s Australian iPhone 4S party by offering the Galaxy S II for $2 in Sydney, Apple swung right back by winning a preliminary sales injunction against Samsung Galaxy Tab in the country.

If you didn’t know, Apple and Samsung have been caught up in a massive patent war over the past few months, largely over the Galaxy series of smartphones and tablets. In an April filing in a Californian court, Apple claimed that Samsung infringed on 8 of its technology, and 7 of its design patents. The Korean behemoth hit right back, claiming that Apple violated 12 of Samsung’s patents in building the iPhone and the iPad. Continue Reading →

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Dennis Ritchie is No More

Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C, is No More

Dennis Ritchie is No More

October hasn’t been too kind to tech pioneers.

A day ago, erstwhile Motorola CEO, Robert W. Galvin died in his sleep at the age of 89. Today comes the news that Dennis Ritchie, the creator of C language and the father of UNIX, succumbed to his illnesses at the age of 70. Continue Reading →

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Google+ Fail: Google Plus Engineer Trashes Site

Google’s Rare Moment of Lucidity

In what might very well be Google’s very own Kanye West moment, a Google engineer, Steve Yegge, has trashed Google+, calling it a “knee-jerk reaction” to Facebook.

Google: give this guy a promotion, pronto!

After months of saying that Google+ was a bad idea, here’s finally someone echoing my sentiments. That the voice is from within Google itself makes it delightfully refreshing. How often do you see a big company’s employees trash its own products in public? Continue Reading →

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