Category Archives: Uncategorized

Google considers online IPO auction “Google executives, led by George Reyes, chief financial officer, met a number of leading investment bankers last week to sound them out about an IPO. The meetings marked the start of a process that is likely to lead to a stock market listing by about March next year, a person familiar with the IPO said.”…

Check out the HP Tablet PC on the table in front of George W. Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr�tien during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting on October 21. Bankok Post has a full story on the HP sponsorship of the event and the special voting software provided by Microsoft….

Amazon.com has a new service allowing you to search the full text of over 120,000 books!…

Today’s New York Times reviews Apple’s latest operating system upgrade, Panther….

Acer President Wang Chen-tang recently commented about why Acer’s Tablet PCs account for only 5% or its notebook sales. It’s due to the price of the OS. “The cost of a tablet PC is $200 (7,000 Taiwan dollars) more than its notebook counterpart. Of this difference, the hardware cost is only between $30 and $60. The majority of the difference comes from the OS license”…

eWeek : Microsoft Opens Windows Source Code to Its MVPs Microsoft is giving its Most Valued Professionals access to the more than 100 million aggregate lines of Windows source code….

An article in Computerworld finds that free hot spots pay dividends. For Schlotzsky’s Delis “Wi-Fi service brings in more than $100,000 per year per outlet in return for an investment of about $8,000 per restaurant for wireless infrastructure.” That’s for a T1 connection too!…

Microsoft Office 2003 is now available. I have already ordered my upgrades and I eagerly await the chance to upgrade and develop….

Knowledge @ Wharton article details some specifics about outsourcing to developing nations: specifically India. “According to a NASSCOM-Hewitt Associates survey, the average salary of a call center worker in India is $180 a month. This is five times the country�s per capita income. For a fresh college graduate, a call center job pays about 2.5 times as much as other job openings.”…

According to Rolling Stone Vanessa Carlton’s new album will be “goth.” “”I’m twenty-three now, and I think I’m more evolved, more secure in who I am. I’m beyond the diary-confessional chapter of my writing.” Should be interesting at least. I saw Vanessa play 3 times last year and I was always pumped to see her play Rolling Stones’ Paint It Black….