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Archive for May 2nd, 2008

Google News Comes To iPhone, Plus Goes Global With Interface (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google News Comes To iPhone, Plus Goes Global With Interface  —  The Google News Blog announced that they have launched a special interface for the iPhone.  To access it, all you need to do is go to Google.com on your iPhone or iPod Touch and navigate to the news […]

GTA game smashes sales records (BBC)

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

BBC:
GTA game smashes sales records  —  Critically acclaimed video game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) IV is on course to beat the record for highest first week sales of any video game in the UK.  —  The title sold a record 609,000 copies on its first day of release, generating an estimated £24.4m ($48.5m).

GTA game smashes UK sales records (BBC)

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

BBC:
GTA game smashes UK sales records  —  Critically acclaimed video game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) IV is on course to beat the record for highest first week sales of any video game in the UK.  —  The title sold a record 609,000 copies on its first day of release, generating an estimated £24.4m ($48.5m).

The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit (Peter Burrows/Business Week)

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Peter Burrows / Business Week:
The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit  —  More office workers infatuated with iPods and iPhones are demanding Macs.  Is business ready?  Is Apple?  —  Istvan Banyai  —  Soon after Michele Goins became chief information officer at Juniper Networks (JNPR) in February, she decided to respond …

Ruby, Rails Give Twitter Its Tweet (Darryl K. Taft/eWeek)

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Ruby, Rails Give Twitter Its Tweet  —  Twitter’s reliance on Ruby and Ruby on Rails proves the language’s resilience.  —  As the maker of one of the largest applications using Ruby on Rails on the Web, Twitter knows a thing or two about scaling applications built with the popular development […]

Streaming Office: Death knell for Google Apps? (Randall Kennedy/Enterprise Desktop)

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Randall Kennedy / Enterprise Desktop:
Streaming Office: Death knell for Google Apps?  —  It’s the holy grail of punditry: You make a bold, unconventional prediction that’s way out in front of an emerging trend, then get to gloat as that prediction comes true.  In my case, the prediction involved Microsoft’s recently (at the time) acquired […]