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I wrote this post about the Amazon Fire phone yesterday morning.
At the time I wrote it, I didn’t yet know what the phone was called or any of its exact details — that came later in the day, with Amazon’s official unveiling.… Read the rest
PARIS — École 42 might be one of the most ambitious experiments in engineering education.
It has no teachers. No books. No MOOCs. No dorms, gyms, labs, or student centers. No tuition.
And yet it plans to turn out highly qualified, motivated software engineers, each of whom has gone through an intensive two- to three-year program designed to teach them everything they need to know to become outstanding programmers.… Read the rest
“Few men have souls so dead that they will not bother to look up when they hear the barking of wild Geese.” –Roger Tory Peterson… Read the rest
So I’m on jury duty this week, and as I walk out of the courthouse on our lunch recess, I happen to see an older bearded gentleman in a suit, surrounded by some other suits, holding forth to a small pack of reporters.… Read the rest
VentureBeat held its first event of the year, our annual Mobile Summit, last week in Sausalito.
My summary of the event appeared on our site this morning. If you work in the mobile ad industry, please give it a read and tell me what you think.… Read the rest
$19 billion for WhatsApp only makes sense if you view it in the context of the pending battle that Facebook — and Google — are preparing to wage against the telcos that control their access to customers.
If you want to know what Facebook’s strategy might look like for the next five years, read this post: First, hurt the telcos.… Read the rest
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning,” said Mark Twain.
An editor’s job, at its best, is about turning lightning bugs into lightning.… Read the rest
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