Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
This is perhaps the biggest exposed flank that Google has with Chrome: Extensions could be a critical weakness. Google doesn’t have a great track record for bringing out the community to participate in its projects, and without the extensive plug-in catalog that Firefox has collected, Chrome won’t displace it. [From Chrome: Nice, But Not a [...]
Yeah they will still be doing things but Bell Labs not doing basic research just isn’t Bell Labs… Alcatel-Lucent, the parent company of Bell Labs, is pulling out of basic science, material physics and semiconductor research and will instead be focusing on more immediately marketable areas such as networking, high-speed electronics, wireless, nanotechnology and software. [...]
Summer is over… I took my son to first day of school today and the hustle and bustle of not only school but also traffic reminded me that the long slow month of August is history. I was out on vacation last week but today is back to business. While I have been writing more [...]