A great review of the Librie, Sony’s new e-book reader, on Dottocomu.
dottocomu: First look at the Sony EBR-1000 Librie eBook reader
A great review of the Librie, Sony’s new e-book reader, on Dottocomu.
dottocomu: First look at the Sony EBR-1000 Librie eBook reader
Good piece in The Guardian re: google and Linux and that one of google’s strengths is their ability to leverage the Linux platform.
The computing engine that powers Google is the largest cluster of Linux servers in the history of the world. If you talk to computer-science folks, you find that they regard this – rather than the number of web pages indexed – as the most interesting thing about the company. Managing such a vast server-farm is a formidable task. For example, how do you implement security patches and operating-system upgrades (much more frequent in Linux than in proprietary systems from Microsoft or Sun) on thousands of servers without causing disruption to service? Google manages to achieve this with sophisticated techniques for rippling changes through the cluster, yet achieves 100 per cent uptime. This is serious stuff, and there are a lot of IT managers out there who would give their eye-teeth to be able to do it half as well.
What can’t you find on Google? Vital statistics [guardian.co.uk]
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Some notes on the Markoff profile of Jobs in the NY Times.
- Apple now has 78 retail stores (and one in Ginza, Tokyo that pissed me off yesterday)
- Jobs did not back Newton nor General Magic
- Jobs cancelled all consulting contracts at Apple in ’97 (yes!)
- “The success of the iPod doesn’t seem to have significantly changed Apple’s market share,”
- only top execs at Apple are allowed to speak with the media
- Apple claims 70% market share for legal music downloads
- Apple claims 45% of MP3 market
- only 4% of the personal computer market
- 1Q04; 807,000 iPods sold; 750,000 Macs sold
- non-Mac revenue at 39%; total revenue $1.91B
- Tony Fadell ex-Real gathered 35 people to build the first iPod
- original iPod used licensed software from Pixo (former Apple engineer)
Oh, Yeah, He Also Sells Computers [nytimes.com]
I didn’t know until now that dodgeball.com (which is a location-based community service based on social networking services) came out of Anthony Townsend’s “Mediated Urban Spaces” class at NYU ITP.
How cool is that?!?!
So I was one of the early owners of the 15″ Powerbooks here in Japan, and I have the problems with the white spots on the LCD. As long as I have it replaced before my first year of ownership is up, they’ll replace the LCD for free.
The problem is that I use my Powerbook daily. I use it for mail. For web surfing. For blogging. For playing music. Watching DVDs. I haven’t found the time to return it to get it fixed since I bought it.
Today I was thinking about purchasing for myself an iPod. It’s almost a running joke because for those who know me well, it is very surprising that I don’t own an iPod already. So I went to the Apple Ginza Store today and before I bought the iPod, I went to the Genius bar to inquire about replacement LCD screens for my Powerbook. Here’s how it went: