Who owns the term "app store"? Apple
wants to, but
Amazon and
Microsoft, among others, think it is generic. Will Steve Jobs's
own words come to haunt him? In any case, the first casualty of the fight between giants seems to be
Amahi, a small open-source media server.
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posted by kmz
on Jun 22, 2011 -
98 comments
Wired presents an extraordinary look at "
one of the most ambitious search-and-rescue missions in history," after one of Microsoft's researchers,
Jim Gray, and his boat, the
Tenacious, went
missing in the Pacific Ocean outside San Francisco in January 2007. Cartography meets law meets
2.0 technology. "First the Coast Guard scoured 132,000 square miles of ocean. Then a team of scientists and Silicon Valley power players turned the eyes of the global network onto the Pacific." Eventually, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, the US Navy, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium jumped in – "as did astronomers from leading universities." To this day, Jim Gray has
never been found, and his disappearance
cannot be explained. Read
Wired for more.
posted by BLDGBLOG
on Jul 22, 2007 -
35 comments
A9 gets MS? Amazon's search tool / portal, formerly powered by Google, is now using Microsoft's
Windows Live search service. I first noticed when my image results went missing (which sucks, but I still use it for the
incentive program). Does this mean MS is shifting out of the half-assery phase of its search strategy? What happens when its
adCenter keyword program opens up? [
commentary]
posted by grobstein
on May 14, 2006 -
10 comments
