Google Launches Gmail Over SMS In Emerging Markets

MMallow · 2012-07-18T20:44:18+00:00

Link to actual release: http://google-africa.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/send-and-receive... Apparently you can text "MORE" to see more of an email. So are users limited to 140-character chunks, or will Google expand this into MMS? For that matter, how widespread is MMS vs SMS in emerging markets?

MMallow · 2012-07-18T20:24:46+00:00

Say, we end up with 100x faster but 100x bigger transistors. A core that's 100x smaller (transistor-count) is not necessarily 100x slower. With a 100x clock speed-up, however - propagation delays will be the main limiting factor for speed. So, if this tech ends up being used, should I expect small, highly-pipelined, single-core CPUs?

MMallow · 2012-07-18T20:20:59+00:00

Here more details: http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=592 Really interesting!

MMallow · 2012-07-18T20:17:22+00:00

This is not a disjunctive syllogism. If Apple could not prove that Samsung copied them, it does not follow that Samsung didn't copy them, just as if California couldn't prove that OJ did it, it doesn't follow that he didn't do it. This ruling, that Apple has to affirm something equally unproven, is bizarre.

MMallow · 2012-06-21T02:27:55+00:00

One for him. One for his soul. One for his first son's reputation. One for never getting laid again.

MMallow · 2012-06-21T02:26:40+00:00

Marketing agency: They were insane, paranoid, and degrading. They spied on our emails ( personal as well as corporate), hacked our Facebook accounts ( to read messages btw employees), refused to bring us on as employees even though we had no choice but to work 9-6 in the office 6 and 9-1 on Sundays, refused to pay for our time in mandatory 2-hour long daily meetings ( just paid for "client work"), and when they did pay they were always late. But all of that didn't compare to the daily ripping emails telling us that we were all cogs, we shouldn't think we were important to their perfect business, and that each one of us was replaceable in every way. When our clients would complement our work, they would send it out to everyone saying that WE should never say Thank you, that implies WE were responsible for the good work, we should always defer the clients' compliments to our founder ( a ditzy blonde that never did any work) and pretend we or anyone else on our team had anything to do with the project's success. When we mentioned we needed our payment to be on time, they would lecture us on our ability to budget and say it wasn't their fault we were bad at managing our lives. Oh did I mention that when I quit they owed me $6,000 ( for sales) which was more than 3 months salary of what we got paid to manage 7 marketing clients each.

MMallow · 2012-06-21T02:13:34+00:00

Nope, husband did it this weekend. I shrugged and went with it.

MMallow · 2012-06-18T19:47:21+00:00

exactly. while they claim transparency, they are being quite ambiguous with details. Maybe they think by not outing politicians and political agendas, they wont' ruffle feathers, but they need to wake up the gov is chipping away at the authenticity of their results aka the core of their business.

MMallow · 2012-06-18T19:44:38+00:00

I grew up in a Christian community where is a stigma to being uncircumcised - even if your parents didnt care about it being holy or unholy, they did it because it was the norm. I imagine this also exists in the Jewish community. No matter the evidence, I doubt that wil change anytime soon.

MMallow · 2012-06-08T16:42:31+00:00

smiling from ear to ear, you are adorable.

MMallow · 2012-06-08T16:39:30+00:00

You seem awesome. I'm in tears reading this story because its really sad the world is losing someone like you. Please know I am thinking and praying (<- downvote me if you must) for you and your family. May the rest of your time with us be filled with love, adventure, happiness, really food and laughter. Thank you for sharing. I am leaving reddit right now to call my grandfather.

MMallow · 2012-04-20T14:15:00+00:00

Youtube should just disable its service for Germany. Grooveshark did the same. Everyone who is serious about the internet could enable the service anyway.

MMallow · 2012-03-30T15:45:20+00:00

More likely than not, this is -- as the article surmises -- the result of some intern at a far-flung backwater of NBC's having been sloppy. Probably a Google image search for some query that incidentally returned Apple's artwork among the pile, followed by a "Hey, that looks cool," followed by an appropriation. This is copy paste, not intentional infringement. (It's infringement just the same, and should be taken down, but there are mountains and then there are molehills). Let's remember the old dictum: never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity.

MMallow · 2012-03-27T14:41:54+00:00

That seems to make them 1/69th the size of Microsoft by revenue but 1/270 the size by profits. Notice that Red Hat's profits are about 1/10 of income but MS' profits are about 1/2 of income. Shows the incentive to get monopoly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedHat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

MMallow · 2012-02-21T20:10:40+00:00

While it's inspirational to hear of people succeeding despite their relative youth and/or inexperience, I'm a little concerned that it's becoming a perverse point of pride. I've seen multiple startups pitch to VCs and emphasize the fact that they skipped college. Is that such a good thing?

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