Netflix ended the first quarter of 2009 with a bang, meeting the high end of its guidance with 10.3 million total subscribers and $394.1 million in quarterly revenue, the company announced today. Netflix added more than 920,000 net subscribers during the quarter, compared with 764,000… Read More »
Archive for April 2009
One thing that’s missing from many online project management apps is the ability to plan your projects using a Gantt chart. Many project managers would argue that such apps aren’t really project management tools at all, preferring to stick with “real” PM software like
As I mentioned in my post about Apple’s second-quarter conference call, COO Tim Cook pretty stridently denied that the company had plans to produce any kind of netbook device. Instead, he pointed customers toward the… Read More »
Heroku will unveil tomorrow the commercial version of its Ruby-focused cloud platform, which — in a world full of management interfaces, configuration files and provisioning policies — virtually eliminates the need for a user to do any of the associated grunt work. It’s… Read More »
No one believed that the passing of California’s Proposition 8 would be the end of the gay marriage debate in this country, especially since there are 49 other states in this great union of ours. This spring, the states of Iowa and Vermont became two new… Read More »
Netbooks are hot and are in conversations every day. The smaller form factor and focus on online web work make them easier to produce with cheaper components. Lots of companies are currently working on Google Android netbooks and there have been whispers of how great a… Read More »
Lately, when Google.org has gotten involved with the workings of Capitol Hill, it has called for transparency and open standards, and promoted its PowerMeter tool. Today Dan Reicher, Google.org’s director of climate and energy initiatives, put another Google initiative — that of
These days, when I visit startups and even giant corporate campuses, green design and building features get star billing. I am increasingly hearing about reflective roofs, gray water systems and even non-VOC paints on my tours. All of which has made me realize that green… Read More »
I suppose this is one way to fight a global economic recession: make it easier to find and buy products. That’s exactly what Google announced today with an update to their online product search for both the iPhone and Android handsets. I just gave it… Read More »
Adobe will discontinue content syndication through its Adobe Media Player (AMP) in June, the company told us at the NAB Show in Las Vegas this week. The move comes alongside Adobe’s freshly announced push for an industry-standard open media player framework called Strobe. AMP’s… Read More »
With the global economy still moribund, tools and services that help you find leads and extract more value from your existing business contacts can only be welcome. LinkedIn has become the online resume repository of choice and helps curate an individual’s professional network, but how to… Read More »
It seems all but confirmed by Apple that video capabilities will be present with the next-generation iPhone. It may be in a few months. It may be next year. But what I’m really curious to… Read More »
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