Cy Fenton

Member since: Jan 6th, 2006

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Google's stand-alone Gmail app for mobile phones (Download Squad)

Nov 2nd 2006 10:08AM The link should be gmail.com/app (not aap). You link is right, but the text is not.

Walmart.com beefs up, adds open-source (Download Squad)

Oct 27th 2006 12:38PM Just so we are not confused ...

Walmart.com (at least this most recent version that has been relatively stable and working for the past 4 years) has always run on the back of open source SW. They purchased homewarehouse.com back in the day (2000) and they were a small startup that ran on Linux and GNU Server Pages running Java on the middleware and back end. Walmart.com appears to still run it's content engine on GNU Server Pages (ie .gsp).

Interesting that THE retail behemouth is still trying to act like a startup. I don't know if it's possible for them to pull off. At least the tools are cool :-)

Sony Reader details and pics (Engadget)

Jan 6th 2006 6:38PM I'm in the book biz and this has all been tried before. This ship has SAILED 3 years ago. Anybody remember RocketEBook, or GlassBook, or even Acrobat eBook - which is sorta still around.

Besides - who wants yet ANOTHER device to lug around. If they were going to do some kind of new shot at the eBook market, at least they could have made the thing do it all - MP3, Pictures, PDA, etc .... Certainly that idea is not outside Sony's collective engineering abilities.

More bad ideas and bad implementation.