Kai-Fu Lee’s uneventful departure from Google to start a Beijing incubator really belies the spectacle that attended the beginning of his tenure at the search giant. Lee’s train-hopping from Microsoft to Google back in 2005 touched off a five-month pitched battle marked by all manner of inanities and expletive-laden outbursts.
MySpace has extended its war on bloat overseas. This morning the company announced plans to close at least four of its offices outside the U.S. in a bid to reduce costs. Some 300 of the company’s 450 international employees will lose their jobs as a result.
When IBM CEO Sam Palmisano advised the Obama transition team that the $30 billion in information-technology stimulus handouts Big Blue is angling for could create more than 900,000 new jobs, he didn’t say they’d be created in India. Yet, apparently that’s the case. IBM is reportedly planning to sack “a large number” of employees in its Global Business Services division, shifting their duties overseas to workers in India.
Oracle has apparently ushered in the new year with a bit of a bloodletting. Thomas Weisel Partners analyst Tim Klasell says the company recently sacked some employees in sales and marketing. The Times of India reports that 40 workers were just let go at the company’s Bangalore offices. And quite a few more may be joining them soon–but not the rumored 8,000.
Google is finding that the safe harbor provisions that protect Internet service providers from the consequences of their users’ actions in the United States are forfeit once you add an “India” suffix to your brand. Google India has been ordered by the Bombay High Court to reveal the identity of a blogger accused of defaming a local construction company.
Gaming piracy is as antiquarian a concept as PONG. So says Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. And who are we to disagree with the man who invented the world’s first (or second, depending on your view) video arcade game?
During the week of Jan. 28, Internet access to a large portion of the Middle East and South Asia was disrupted when five undersea Internet cables were cut or damaged in relatively quick succession. Egypt lost about 70% of its Internet capacity, India about 50%.
What caused the disruptions? Finding five accidental failures in a week [...]
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
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