RWW: The Future of Tech

"What is so different about today that caused such a drastic change in the way Apple announces and delivers a new operating system? They saw what Microsoft is doing with Windows 8 and panicked." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Groupon initially tried to make up its own “consolidated segment operating income†metric that left out all sorts of real expenses. The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission took issue with this approach, and Groupon removed it from its IPO filing. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

"Novelty of latest model, the 4S, is starting to wear off, research firm says" - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"According to two crisis consultants and a management professor at Northwestern’s Kellogg School, Apple has moved too slowly to address the labor problems in its supply change." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Mozilla plans to release a concept version of Firefox for Windows 8's new Metro interface in the second quarter with alpha and beta versions to follow in the second half of 2012." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Despite the claims of the MPAA and other supporters of SOPA and PIPA, file-sharing does not negatively impact box office sales in the U.S., according to a new study conducted by economists from Wellesley College and the University of Minnesota." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"As you can see in the image a couple of values are displayed. But what do those stand for? Here the answer: Resident: Memory mapped by the process that is present in physical memory. It’s normally the memory usage you will see in the systems process manager. GC: Duration of the last Garbage Collector activity and in brackets the time when the second last activity happened. CC: Duration of the last Cycle Collector activity and in brackets the time when the second last activity happened. Logging: Starts and stops the internal logger, which writes out the current memory usage and GC/CC activities to a log file, which can be found in the memchaser sub directory of your Firefox profile." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"In Steven Sinofsky’s thesis of Windows on ARM (generically dubbed WOA) published on the Building Windows 8 blog today, two photographs of an early development build of Windows running on prototype ARM hardware dates the effort to as far back as 22 January 2010, almost a week before iPad’s announcement on the 27th. Although Microsoft waited almost a year later to reveal WOA for the first time in public at a CES 2011 press conference, it’s now clear Microsoft too had future bets on an ARM-based ecosystem even before the iPad began selling and ARM took the spotlight for tablet devices." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"social platforms provide the opportunity to create focus groups at a scale never before possible. Millions of people talk about all sorts of things online, and with the right systems and algorithms in place, it’s possible to decipher how they actually feel about the topics they’re discussing. If you want to know how the web-savvy world feels about a product, movie, team, you name it, millions of data sources should trump interviewing a few hundred people in malls across the country." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Germany has delayed signing an international copyright treaty that has some Internet users worried about online censorship, joining Poland and the Czech Republic in hesitating on the issue. The Foreign Ministry said Germany held off on signing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, "to leave room for discussions" after the Justice Ministry voiced concerns. An official signature is needed before the deal can go to Parliament for approval." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"LinkedIn is connecting with investors. The dominant professional networking site was one of the few bright spots Friday on Wall Street. Its shares skyrocketed nearly 18% to $89.96 in the single biggest one-day jump since its initial public stock offering in May. LinkedIn’s stock has doubled in value since the IPO. The jet fuel powering the professional networking site: its fourth-quarter earnings, released Thursday. Revenue more than doubled from the previous year to nearly $168 million. The Mountain View, Calif., company earned $6.9 million, surpassing analysts’ expectations. And it forecast higher in 2012. LinkedIn expects its revenue to rise as much as 65% this year to $860 million." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"The so-called "hacktivist" group Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack on government and law enforcement computers in Alabama on Friday in response to what it called the state's "racist" immigration law." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Another question is why is Apple allowing this kind of behavior from iOS apps? The whole point of Apple's app approval process is to protect its users from malware and privacy violations. So why aren't privacy protections being extended to your address book when apps are being reviewed? So much for the safety of Apple's walled garden." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Microsoft today said it will host a launch event for the Windows 8 beta on Feb. 29 in Barcelona, the site of the Mobile World Congress." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"“A logical conclusion is that the iPhone is not good for wireless carriers,†Nomura Securities analyst Mike McCormack told Money. “When we look at the direct and indirect economics that Apple has managed to extract from the carriers, the carrier-level value destruction is quite evident.†The site notes that Verizon Wireless’s EBITDA service margin has dropped from an average of 46.4% per quarter to 42.2% since the carrier added the iPhone to its lineup one year ago." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"it looks like Microsoft's been working mighty hard to please those that just love using a pen and paper with Windows 8, offering a revamped metro-style handwriting interface in the consumer preview." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"Google’s platform still has one key advantage: it’s attracting more mobile data newbies. New research from the NPD Group shows that 57 percent of first-time smartphone buyers last quarter chose Android handsets, while only 34 percent of new buyers purchased an iPhone." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"It can show us a list of all the open tabs and their memory usage sans JS for now, as per the above screenshot. If you expand the tab capsules, you get to see the list of all the inner windows/iframes that live in the hierarchy of that page." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

"A new update installation method allows Firefox to install an update while the browser is running. This means that the update can be installed immediately after it is downloaded. A restart of the browser is still required to apply the update but, using the new method, the application of the update will happen very quickly. So quickly, in fact, that you shouldn’t even notice it. The new version of Firefox will then launch with no delay as the update procedure has already taken place." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet