02 Oct 09 Apple iPhone users: It's all good -- except AT&T
Everyone is supposed to love their iPhones, lest they be branded an Apple hater. But Apple's comeuppance is at hand.
In the latest going-gaga-for-iPhone customer satisfaction study, CFI Group reported that the iPhone took top honors among smartphones after surveying more than 1,000 users. The iPhone scored 83 on a 100-point scale. Android and the Pre tied for second at 77, followed by BlackBerry (73) and Palm's Treo (70).
Tagi: apple iphone, secd, comeuppance, iphone, iphe, gaga, hater, android, blackberry, palm
19 Dec 09 Solaris on Wall Street - Faster and Faster
Independent of his views on outsourcing, I've heard the same point made by many (but not all) financial services executives - banking (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and retailing) has become a technology business, where every ounce of performance and differentiation matters. Even, and especially, in the midst of market turmoil.
Which is a fitting backdrop for a joint press release we just issued with Intel - in which we achieved a land speed record - a million messages per second, running the Reuters Market Data System on Solaris 10 for Intel silicon (see release for details). To our colleagues at Intel and Thomson Reuters... thank you! Performance = market advantage, energy savings, or datacenter consolidation - or all of the above. Customers get to pick.
And following up on my last post on the impact of flash memory and ZFS on the world of datacenters, our own Adam Leventhal has added a far more fulfilling technical perspective in Communications of the ACM: Flash Storage Memory.Worth the read...
Tagi: land speed record, fitting backdrop, financial services executives, memory worth, market turmoil, global financial services, technical perspective, storage memory, flash storage, secd, performance market, system solar, market advantage, leventhal, thoms,
19 Dec 09 No Hope for the Seahawks
I was thinking ahead this past summer when I bought two tickets to a division match-up between the Arizona Cardinals and the Seattle Seahawks. I wanted tickets sometime around my wife's birthday, since we have a tendency to take each other to games due to our fall birthdays. However, I must have forgotten one minor detail.
Despite the long walk up the stairs to our seats at the very top of the 300 level, we enjoyed attending our first and last home game of the 2008 season. The first half was more painful than the second, but the latter gave us hope that we might actually pull out a win and keep some element of hope alive for the remainder of the season. However, it just wasn't meant to be.
One cool thing that did happen, though, was that as we were getting on the elevator after the game, I noticed a very familiar face walking past my wife and me. After a few glances and then hearing the woman's slightly high-pitched voice, I realized that she was none other than Hope Solo, Washington native, former Washington Husky and, most importantly, 2008 Olympic gold medalist and goalkeeper on the U.S. Women's National Team.
Because I didn't want another Marcus Tubbs experience, I refrained from saying anything to her, but I already regret the decision. It would have been pretty cool to get my picture taken with one of the key members of one of my favorite teams.
Tagi: marcus tubbs, seattle seahawks, olympic gold, secd, minor detail, ariza, pitched voice, familiar face, home game, divi, deci, cool thing, goalkeeper, cardinals, elevator, stairs, birthdays, remainder, tendency, 2008 olympic
11 Mar 10 Court Upholds Microsoft, i4i Word Judgment
An appeals court this week rejected Microsoft's second attempt to dismiss a $290 million judgment regarding its Word product.Tagi: secd, word product, appeals court, milli, i4i, judgment, microsoft
13 Apr 10 Google Buys Plink
The company's second acquisition this month will help strengthen its visual search capabilities. Tagi: search capabilities, secd, google, mth
