Reuters has an interesting story on how China Telecom is blocking Skype. Why you ask? Well it could have something to do with them charing $1 a minute to call Europe or the US while you can do it on Skype for a couple of cents. Seing as the average wage in China is so [...]
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The Coming Of The Poker Bots
August 28th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Coding & Web Development, Crime, Internet, Video Games
Wired has a piece on how people are using poker bots to make easy money: It’s late one Wednesday afternoon, and CptPokr is logged on to PartyPoker.com and ready to play. Onscreen, the captain exudes a certain brash charisma – broad shoulders, immaculate brown hair, restless animatronic eyes. He looks like he should be playing [...]
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Top 10 Dot-Com Flops
August 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Internet
C|NET has written an article in what according to them are the top 10 dot-com flops. This after the top 10 web fads. An Excerpt: The most astounding thing about the dot-com boom was the obscene amount of money that was spent. Zealous venture capitalists fell over themselves to invest millions in Internet start-ups; dot-coms [...]
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Great Programmers Equals Great Products
August 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Coding & Web Development
This is what Joel writes. Excerpt: In March, 2000, I launched this site with the shaky claim that most people are wrong in thinking you need an idea to make a successful software company: The common belief is that when you’re building a software company, the goal is to find a neat idea that solves [...]
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Worldcom’s Ex-Boss Gets 25 Years
July 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Crime
The BBC reports the the ex Worldcom boss is going to have to do 25 years, and is obviously being made an exmple of: Former Worldcom boss Bernard Ebbers wept openly as he was sentenced to 25 years in jail for his part in the scandal which brought down the firm. Mr Ebbers was found [...]
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Average Worker Goofs Off 2.09 Hours Per Day!
July 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Business
C|NET News writes that the longer days everyone’s supposed to work these past few years are having negative effects for productivity: Traipsing around the Internet is the most popular form of loafing on the job. The insurance industry is particularly rife with goofing off, and Missouri is the top state for time-wasters. Those are among [...]
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McDonalds To Get Designer Uniforms
July 6th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Fashion & Style
In the near future if you drive through your local Micky D’s you might be amazed by what the staff are wearing (yeah, right). So says the following BBC article: Fast food giant McDonald’s is searching for a top fashion designer to give its US workers a trendy new makeover. The firm said rap star [...]
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251 Million Dollar Typo
July 2nd, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Humor
In what is almost a comical article, C|Net News has an article on someone who was fired after a typo: A Taiwan stock trader mistakenly bought $251 million worth of shares with a misstroke of her computer keyboard, meaning her company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million and she is [...]
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Why Are You Working For Someone Else Like A Sucker?
July 2nd, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Coding & Web Development, Personal
I just came across this facsinating opinion piece on freshmeat.net about how it just doesn’t make financial sense to work for someone else as a programmer: Common programmers may expect to earn at least $60,000/year, but it is rare for even superstar programmers to command above $150,000, excepting very specialized markets like kernel driver development. [...]
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Dubai To Build Worlds Largest Theme Park (Dumb Idea)
June 22nd, 2005 · 3 Comments · Business, Middle East
In what is one of the dumbest ways to invest money, Online Insider reports that Dubai wants to build the worlds largest theme park: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Disneyland in the desert, you could call it. “Dubailand,” though, is the chosen moniker for the massive project now rising in the Middle East. By any [...]
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