Nintendo, GameStop address Wii shortage  —  The Nintendo Wii launched more than a year ago, and the system is still incredibly hard to find.  This long after the system started shipping, people are still camping in front of stores as soon as they hear about new shipments.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Will Greenwald
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9833947-7.html

T-Mobile blocks Twitter?  —  After several days of no Twitter SMS service I contacted T-Mobile customer support.  After the standard technical support for my phone (even though ALL phones on my account are denied access to Twitter SMS via 40404) I was told that they would NOT open a ticket as they don’t support SMS […]

T-Mobile blocks Twitter? (updated 12/14/07 9:17 PM CST)  —  After several days of no Twitter SMS service I contacted T-Mobile customer support.  After the standard technical support for my phone (even though ALL phones on my account are denied access to Twitter SMS via 40404) …

Source:   Alternageek Technology Podcast
Author:   Linuxchic
Link:   http://alternageek.com/hosts/linuxchic/t-mobile…

T-Mobile blocks Twitter? (updated)  —  Update below  —  After several days of no Twitter SMS service I contacted T-Mobile customer support.  After the standard technical support for my phone (even though ALL phones on my account are denied access to Twitter SMS via 40404) …

Source:   Alternageek Technology Podcast
Author:   Linuxchic
Link:   http://alternageek.com/hosts/linuxchic/t-mobile…

Economics that are impossible to stop  —  A few days ago, Jeff Barr, Amazon’s Web services (AWS) evangelist visited my class and got a report of what we’d built over the course of the last semester on top of AWS.  Each student had built part of a project that eventually used 25-30 independent machines.

Source:   […]

Amazon Takes on Oracle and IBM With SimpleDB  —  Companies can now go ahead and fire their expensive database administrators—those engineers who keep the Oracle or IBM databases humming.  Amazon has just added an enterprise-class database called SimpleDB to its suite of cloud-based IT infrastructure …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/14/amazon-takes-on…

Petition Seeking My Recusal from Review of Proposed Acquisition of Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners V, LP (DoubleClick Inc.)  —  This statement responds to the “Complaint Requesting Recusal of the Federal Trade Commission Chairman From the Pending Review of the Proposed Google-Doubleclick Merger” …

Source:   Federal Trade Commission
Link:   http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/12/google.shtm

What’s Wrong With Windows Mobile and How WM7 and WM8 Are Going to Fix It  —  We just got the scoop from Microsoft on Windows Mobile 7 and Windows Mobile 8, the two upcoming platforms that will fix what is undeniably broken about the Windows Mobile platform to date.

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Jason Chen
Link:   […]

What’s Wrong With Windows Mobile and How WM7 and WM8 Are Going to Fix It [What’s Wrong With Windows Mobile]  —  We just got the scoop from Microsoft on Windows Mobile 7 and Windows Mobile 8, the two upcoming platforms that will fix what is undeniably broken about the Windows Mobile platform to date.

Source:   […]

Googlepedia  —  Just to underscore the impetus behind the launch of Googlepedia - er, Knol - I went back to rerun a test I first ran over a year ago to see how high Wikipedia pages rank in a random set of Google searches.  Here were the results on August 10, 2006:  —  World War […]