Entries Tagged as ‘business acumen’

March 7, 2008

#785 Mark Zuckerberg

 
Tech’s newest golden boy founded addictive social networking site Facebook in February 2004 from his Harvard dorm room. Left school for Silicon Valley later that year; scored initial $500,000 investment from PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel. Venture firms soon swooned, among them Accel Partners and Greylock Partners. Today Facebook boasts 66 million active users. Estimated [...]

February 6, 2008

Microsoft: Windows XP to be retired in 2008

I love Windows XP, and I don’t have time for VISTA.

Windows XP will stop being available on new PCs from the end of January 2008.
Microsoft is keeping to a plan to stop selling the operating system even though surveys show a lukewarm response to Windows Vista among consumers.
Microsoft has confirmed that from 31 January 2008 [...]

January 19, 2008

innovative Japanese fashion - dress vending machine

I love to see technology / related ideas mixed with ‘daily-life’…, not the kind that stands aloof from their users.
here is one of such:
To prevent crime, a fashion designer thought to transform clothes into inanimate objects to help people disguise and deceive, potential ‘muggers’ thieves.

source: gizmodo
I wonder if such ‘clothes’ could be classified as a [...]

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