Windstream, the company that bought PAETEC, won’t be building at Midtown, just leasing a couple of floors in an existing building. Their company headquarters will remain in Arkansas. Are you surprised? Of course you’re not. No one is. Well, perhaps … Read More
It must be nice to have multiple taxpayer-financed pensions to lean on in your twilight years.
ZDNet has announced that Adobe is ceasing development on mobile browser Flash in favor of industry standard HTML5. Steve Jobs was right. [Update] Microsoft appears ready to halt development on its Silverlight Flash competitor and going to HTML5. They had … Read More
All fire departments in NY State receive funds from the state that are a tax on out-of-state insurance companies. Referred to as “2% funds”, they are required to be spent on things that benefit the firefighters but specifically not on … Read More
With its Playbook tablet not selling well, RIM has come out with a “Buy Two, Get One Free” offer. So, their answer to hardly anyone wanting one is to make you buy two in order to get a free one? … Read More
Given that the role of software in cars is growing rapidly, a story like Jaguar recalling 18,000 cars over a cruise control software fault is neither surprising nor likely to be uncommon in the future.
Even after the recession was declared “over”, US incomes kept falling – twice as fast as during the recession. One reason pay has stagnated is that many people who lost their jobs in the recession — and remained out of … Read More
Even after all these years it’s still surprising how Rochester keeps coming up with new ways to waste money. They didn’t learn with the Brown’s Race fiasco, the Fast Ferry Fiasco or the budding Midtown Plaza fiasco, now they’re planning … Read More
Alex on Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived – The Oatmeal
Tom on Newly discovered amateur video of Challenger disaster
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