What storm troopers Google

What storm troopers Google

Planning a vacation? *Really* need to get away? The darker the region, the more remote.

Planning a vacation? *Really* need to get away? The darker the region, the more remote.

2M Google Apps customers, 20M active users

Google said Apps is used by 2 million businesses, up from 1.75 million in June. Those include both larger businesses that pay $50 a year per user for Apps, as well as firms with fewer than 50 employees that get the software for free.

100 Oldest Domain Names

  1. SYMBOLICS.COM
  2. BBN.COM
  3. THINK.COM
  4. MCC.COM
  5. DEC.COM
  6. NORTHROP.COM
  7. XEROX.COM
  8. SRI.COM
  9. HP.COM
  10. BELLCORE.COM

Wifi Direct = P2P networking & bluetooth competition

coming to you mid-2010: device-router-device connections replaced by device-device connections, basically everything becomes a wifi router

The Geography of Jobs

Very cool animated map showing US employment trends. (Press the play button to animate)

Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right

and France has declared it a “human right”

$56.6M Apartment in Hong Kong

At $110K/m2 it’s even more expensive than Vietnam ;-)

Next Big Thing Alert: "social cognitive neuroscience"

Look into the brain and see what happens when people interact…This is what I’d be studying if I were back in the university today.

US telecoms are the worst in the world. $32.75 for a few minutes of browsing after my $20/100MB pkg ran out.

US telecoms are the worst in the world. $32.75 for a few minutes of browsing after my $20/100MB pkg ran out.

In the UK: online ad spend bigger than TV, first time in major market

Spending on internet advertising topped £1.75 billion in the first half of 2009, a rise of just 4.6 per cent compared to the same period last year. But the increase was enough for online advertising to pass declining TV spend, which sits at £1.64bn, for the first time in a major market.

Homeland Security

Homeland Security

37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company: investors agreed to purchase 0.000000001% for $1

…The round was led by Yardstick Capital and Institutionalized Venture Partners

;-)