http://www.tyjypx.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:25:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en • Eric Hippeau, 9.3 percent, no change Since February, Yahoo's share price rose from $19.18 to the $30 range when Microsoft attempted to acquire first Yahoo then later just its search assets. • Vyomesh Joshi, 7.1 percent, no change Arthur Kern, Ronald Burkle, and Gary Wilson also saw a big jump in the percentage of ... http://www.tyjypx.com/2010/09/04/shareholder-approval-of-yahoo-board-plunges-on-vot/ Consequently, Twitter has bolstered its servers in anticipation of Monday's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), at which healthy doses of Steve Jobs announcements are expected. Microblogging service Twitter is a central hub of geek chatter, and if there's anything geeks love to chatter about, it's Apple news. "We are expecting approximately ... http://www.tyjypx.com/2010/08/29/twitter-goes-into-battle-mode-in-anticipation-of-a/ Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet had the scoop on this. Essentially, it is based on the longtime premise of A/B testing, that is giving one set of users one option and a second set another option and seeing which they like better. Leading the charge on this is Ronny Kohavi, who ... http://www.tyjypx.com/2010/08/24/microsoft-better-testing-can-speed-development/ This looks like a toy gun but it's actually cable tie gun, which was correctly ID'd by the Q&A community at PicAnswers.com Like Amazon's Mechanical Turk project, PicAnswers is driven by humans. People upload their photos, and other users chime in if they can answer the query. A lot of the ... http://www.tyjypx.com/2010/08/24/picanswers-helps-identify-house-plants-the-rest-o/ And if he really doesn't like DRM then they should figure out another way to solve the piracy problem. A community/enterprise version approach akin to open source might be one way to get things started. I am sure that EA CEO didn't mean to sound this callous in a recent Q&A, ... http://www.tyjypx.com/2010/08/24/ea-998-of-gamers-dont-care-about-drm/ It doesn't look like the new hosted schedule is embeddable in Web pages or on social network sites as a widget, though. If I was a consultant using TimeBridge to let my customers book time with me, I would prefer it if they didn't have to leave ... http://www.tyjypx.com/2010/08/24/timebridge-lets-the-world-book-meetings-with-you/ Clearly, Henning's argument is biased toward his company's product line. But he may have a point: it's more difficult to manage Web-based systems implemented piecemeal at the departmental level. Regulatory compliance is becoming a corporate nightmare, and companies need all of the help they can get. A slicker user interface ... http://www.tyjypx.com/2010/08/24/sap-chief-big-software-isnt-going-away/ Anoop Gupta Orlando Ayala, the Microsoft executive who had been leading the unit (and with whom I had been traveling with in Colombia) is shifting to a new role inside Kevin Turner's sales unit, while Microsoft veteran Will Poole is retiring from Microsoft this fall. Poole, who had been heading ... http://www.tyjypx.com/2010/08/24/microsoft-shakes-up-emerging-market-unit/ So what's changed? Well, almost everything. "The old Dell was about how everything had to improve with scale. In other words, any fixed cost investment had to get more profitable with volume," said Roger Kay, analyst and president of Endpoint Technologies. But after the leadership change a year ago, "Michael ... http://www.tyjypx.com/2010/08/24/dell-taking-more-risks/ Update [2/11/08]: We've heard from Best Buy, and the company tells us this laptop will be available for $1,199 starting Sunday, February 17. That represents an excellent value, and mitigates our disappointment over the original jump from the MSRP of $1,350 to the current $1,699. We called Gateway and they ... http://www.tyjypx.com/2010/08/24/when-is-a-bargain-laptop-not-a-bargain/