Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales recently made a plea to Wikipedia users via a flashy new header atop Wikipedia asking for more donations. According to an article in ArsTechnica, Wikipedia’s operating expenses for 2008 were $6 million USD, up from $3.5 million in 2007. Wikipedia has been struggling to keep up their cash reserves while [...]
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I’ve been pretty quiet about the project I’m currently working on, but that’s going to change now that we’re heading towards the beginning of our private beta program.
I’m currently working with a group of wickedly smart people to build a new hosted (yes, SaaS-based) collaborative decision making platform: DecisionSpaces.
What does DecisionSpaces do? There are [...]
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Two news items caught my attention in the news recently: RadioShack selling a $99 Netbook PC (which ultimately costs over $1,400 when you factor in the 2-year AT&T data contract), and Microsoft recently publishing a patent for a pay-as-you-go home PC.
The price of home computers has dropped significantly. It’s now cheaper than ever to [...]
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Everyone who’s owned an Xbox 360 for a period of time is probably at least somewhat familiar, perhaps even intimately familiar, with the dreaded red ring of death, or RRoD as it’s more commonly known. My first two Xbox 360s experienced that fate. The first one died after 6 months, but thankfully Costco’s liberal [...]
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I had promised earlier this month that I would try to keep up the posts to a minimum of once per weekday. I’ve subsequently broken that promise by taking a few days off for the holidays. But I am back, and will return to blogging once a day (at minimum), and hopefully even through [...]
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According to a US federal government complaint filed last week Friday, Ausaf Umar Siddiqui used his position at Fry’s Electronics to set up kick-back deals with electronics vendors. The deals had Fry’s paying over 30% or more for equipment, including flash drives and network routers, with kick-back money going into a shell company owned [...]
Palm’s troubles represent a familiar theme: how to re-brand a failing company, and turn it back into the success that it once was.
Palm will be getting a much needed injection of cash from Elevation Partners, in the amount of $100 million USD. In details disclosed in a Palm company press release on Monday, Elevation [...]
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