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Companies like Cisco seem built around buying all of their innovation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Cisco_S...

They seem to be doing well.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/indus...

"Though the question has to be asked would all of the users in local government be OK to use Gmail from a legal perspective?"

Sufficiently large organizations don't just accept the click-through EULA. Get a contract and sue if it's breached.

"Apple's and Microsoft's business transactions(except for Bing) are upfront. You pay us this much money and you get this service. Google's is a more subtle "use this free service and we'll track your behavior and try to profit off it, if not we'll kill it"."

Because upgrades, support incidents, and software assurance are free, and they will give me the manpower to run it all? Where do I sign up? :)

I'm afraid that article is not accurate at all. When reading something about SUNY if it mentions an IT decision being made system wide it's most likely inaccurate bullshit. Nearly every campus has it's own disjoint IT and outside of strong suggestions and price incentives each campus can make it's own choices.

Examples: Oracle is effectively "free" for campuses so why not use that? And using something like Banner or Blackboard lets you ride on existing contracts and share dedicated resource centers. But it's not mandated and there are non-Blackboard campuses (as an example).

There is no Office 365 global movement or mandate in SUNY. It's simply one of two choices IF one decides to use them. It just means each campus doesn't have to bother putting together their own contract as SUNY central took care of it already.

"Google's revenues from Apps/Docs/Email is still only a few percent"

As an example Google gives away service to education so their revenue from that would be $0. As does Office 365 (at least that is what we were offered).

Many copies of Windows and Mac based Office of course is still purchased as frankly Google Docs and 365 are only appropriate for simple use cases.

"The entire State University of New York (700,000) use MS Office."

This is incorrect and I wish whatever source this comes from would get corrected.

Both Google Apps and Office 365 are made available to campuses through streamlined contracts signed at the system level. It is up to each campus to pick which one they want to use.

I'm on a campus that chose the Google offering. We got rid of local storage for student files on our LAN in favor of promoting cloud storage and have outsourced all student and alumni email to Gmail. We're not the only ones in the SUNY system.

Oh wow. Simply wow. I've wanted this without knowing I've wanted it.

This probably sounds sad but the effort and potential anxiety required in trying to pick the right foods and what I might want to eat often means I just get lazy and eat out instead. A case where having an astounding number of options often leaves one wanting to pick none of the above.

This is a great idea.

Edit: Mobile website please!

And here I was busy thinking "Wow. If Path is doing crap like this than that post about the founder being a douchebag must be 100% correct." Congrats on being even more obnoxious than Facebook.

I'd agree with you but we are not there yet.

I've yet to see a beautiful web app on mobile not be a sluggish buggy mess. Twitter's mobile web app at first look decent but it's sooooo sllllllllooooowww and unresponsive on a quad core phone.

Forecast.io's mobile site is the first time I've seen any app or browser instance cause a phone to lock up and never recover. I'm suspecting that's a GPU driver bug.

That's a piss poor Android strategy.

And as a side note I'm still getting this on Android:

http://i.imgur.com/Ox0BwML.png

Hopefully it's just a cache issue.

Well that now makes the second Twitter product without an Android launch strategy. The first, Vine, looks like it'll flame out by the time they ever toss a half broken app across the corporate firewall. Are they running out of cash or something? Their competition doesn't seem to be having a problem with supporting more than one platform.

Edit: I'd also like the point out the irony of hitting "Play Full Tracks", picking Rdio, then immediately being presented with a Facebook logo and login option but no Twitter SSO. /facepalm

I managed to get my order in about a minute or two after they became available on the website but have yet to get a shipping notification.

My drug of choice might not be here on Saturday. :(

I've been so waiting for something like this. While I'm expecting to be disappointed by this early effort the idea is exciting and something that was inevitable.

There was a great anime series that sadly doesn't have distribution in the US called Denno Coil[1] that is required viewing for anyone interested in augmented reality.

The series follows a group of kids in a city that grow up with Google Glasses type functionality with virtual pets and software as "magic". The kids lead a life based upon this augmented reality laid over the real reality. If you like anime this show is worth tracking down a torrent for.

It's also worth checking out the Halting State series from Charles Stross if you're up for some reading.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil

Please use a solid color (preferably white) background under all content text, Thanks.

The site has great content. The new design makes it too hard to read.

Huh. That is really odd. That could very well be what's going on with the Kayak site. I just assumed there was some helpful autoscrolling thing going on.

Thanks for sharing!

I sent feedback via the form. Thanks for the link.

My uneducated guess is that the autocomplete box scrolling code doesn't handle the sub-4.3" screen resolutions. Devs would be more likely to prefer top of the line phones.

"Our website does work on the BlackBerry browser"

So the mobile website works with BlackBerry but not Android? Huh.

The minute you open the keyboard in Android some Javascript scroll thing freaks out and insists on hiding all of the page content on you. It's impossible to use and has been broken for months (both Android 2.2 and 2.3 on sub-4.3" phones). I had just assumed it was only intended for iPhone users and used Orbitz instead.

"IMHO, its too bad, since I would of really loved to have seen Dropbox more tightly integrated into iOS. "

As a user of Windows, Linux and Android all I can say is "thank fucking god". It would have destroyed a perfectly good cross-platform product.

No demos? Isn't it a bit too early to advertise a game engine when all there is to show is a github repo?

Edit: Thanks for the link to rescuefox.

And you're running this all on 1970s technology. And the problem is?

Look at the bright side: At least it isn't an Oracle product.

There are already options that support Markdown. Here is an example of one:

https://github.com/adamzap/landslide

Markdown isn't expressive enough for presentations so you end up having to use HTML anyway.

You're right it does and that's what I use. But something doesn't feel right when over half my slides are using that particular feature.

I thought that too before I spent some time with a Markdown based presentation like Landslide:

https://github.com/adamzap/landslide

I found myself needing to "drop down" into HTML quite often as my slides were more complex then just the simple bullet point lists.

Markdown just didn't have the expressiveness I needed for a presentation. Markdown would be fine for a say a word document but there is more need for complex layout in a good presentation sometimes.

" I'm just observing that Google is a company with few patents and are in competition in multiple areas with companies with more patents that they very possibly infringe on. It is therefore no surprise that their view on patent law is incredibly in line with this position."

It's a given that you can't enter a field without infringing on patents. Therefore the choice is to either not to grow or to infringe on others patents. Every company has to make that choice not just Google. In the current system the best thing Google could do to defend itself would be aggressively patent everything to use as a weapon. For some reason they have chosen not to do that and that hamstrings them.

That gets dangerously close to "patents are pure evil". When a company that chooses not to abuse a government provided weapon is at a major disadvantage and other companies can use the government to damage it.

Do people really want someone with Google's revenue stream and internal R&D getting into the aggressive patent game?

Could someone please tell me why people are excited about Spotify in the US?

We have established competitors and I've failed to find a single thing Spotify does better than the competitors.

Also the competitors do this amazing thing that Spotify doesn't: They work in a web browser.

"Could this have anything to do with VUPEN's recent Chrome exploit?"

Is this going to be the standard post for every Chrome fix from this point forward? The only people who we know for sure would know ain't talking. ;)

Google Docs assumes you have access to the Internet in a form that is usable for the composing a document. Hense why I mentioned the traditional computer labs going away.

This makes a couple assumptions.

The first is that you wouldn't be fiscally responsible for the full cost if the device was stolen from you. In this case it would be worse than owning out right. As now you're on the hook for the cost of the device you lost at the time you need to pick up another device. Are they going to allow you to rent the second device? Details would be nice.

Also when at a college your college is usually your ISP. And at the one I work at as long as you have access to the classroom then you have access to the network.

I agree with the backups part but that is independent of this particular arrangement as Google Apps works on non-rented devices too. :)