When two smartphone failures join hands, the end result can only be a mega-dud. Microsoft is shelling out $7.2 billion in cash to buy Nokia’s mobile phone devices, license some patents and get access to Nokia’s mapping services. The deal will swell Microsoft’s headcount from 99,139 (on June 30, 2013) to 131,199. Nokia Lumia Smartphone […]
What Intel has done for the microprocessor, we’re going to do for the home computer. – Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the Hollywood movie Jobs Steve Jobs was a Class A asshole in his shabby treatment of people around him. Jobs was also an astute and wealthy businessman thanks to co-founding Apple and his role […]
Holy Crap! Who’d have thought Indian asses would get such a warm, fuzzy welcome from an American hotel chain! Times sure have changed! Don’t get me wrong now. By asses, I don’t mean those poor quadrupeds that bray and trot uneasily beneath their heavy burden. I mean the literal brown asses of my fellow brown-skinned […]
Considering Google paid a whopping $12.5 billion for the Motorola acquisition, I’m disappointed with the new Moto X smartphone. Launched yesterday, Moto X is the first smartphone offering from Motorola after it came under Google’s stewardship. Moto X should be available later this month or in early September in the U.S. and Canada for $199 […]
(For MadMax673) Life’s blessings are doled out so unequally. For proof, watch the Sundance 2013 winner Fruitvale Station and its real-life account of the cold-blooded killing of a 22-year-old unarmed Black man Oscar Julius Grant III at a BART train station in California by a trigger happy White cop Johannes Mehserle in the early hours […]
There’s far too much of both free cloud storage and free online porn these days. As with far too much of anything free, even if things be lust-worthy at first glance, they tend to lose their allure and are stripped of value soon. Just yesterday, I stumbled upon a new player, Shared.com, that offers 100GB […]