Every day, approximately 4,000 dabbawallahs deliver 160,000 home-cooked lunches from the kitchens of suburban wives and mothers direct to Mumbai’s workers in “the world’s most ingenious meal distribution system.” (Hey UPS, how’s that for logistics?) Dabbawallahs p…
You may recall that two weeks ago we added Lugaru HD to the Mac App Store for $9.99 (the same price as on Steam, our own site, and all other…
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Business travel can get a bit boring can’t it? (OK a LOT boring). Imagine looking out of the window on a flight to see Discovery launching on its final mission. That would be quite cool. Neil Monday just did. I once saw Comet Hale Bopp and the northern lights when flying to San Francisco. I […]
Posted by Matthew Izatt, Product Manager Waiting. Walking. Watching TV. Working out. Winding down. Waking up. We check email pretty much e...
v.8.0, offered to release channel users on November 8th, 2011 Check out what’s new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest released version of Firefox. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .
Posted by Benoît de Boursetty, Product Manager (Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog ) The great thing about web apps is that you...
Schools that seek to help students who are underrepresented in advanced programs should treat them as gifted young scholars, an approach that can result in many of them actually performing at a gifted level within a few years, according to a U.S. Dept. of Education study of a North Carolina program.
I hate to pick on Sony, but they got hacked again (and no, I am not talking about the Lulzsec + sonypictures, this is another…
Posted by Alan Green, Software Engineer In the next week, we’ll be making some highly requested changes to Google Reader. First, we’re goi...
While he was over in the UK for a book tour and lecture series, Professor Donald Knuth made time to talk to BCS editor Justin Richards about his life.
Programming languages are silos. The libraries, development tools, deployment practices, and even naming schemes associated with one language — say, Ruby —
