In 1975 Bill Gates, Paul Allen and a certain unnamed, cloven-hoofed, hot-under-the-collar associate made a pact: to rule the world! It seems, 35 years, billions of dollars and dozens of lawsuits later that they’ve made it. For the quarter ending December 2009, Microsoft saw a net, record-breaking profit of 6.66 billion dollars on revenue of [...]
Intuit’s acquisition of Mint.com (and hiring of Mint creator Aaron Patzer) made a big splash last September. Users bailed out of Mint, thinking that Intuit’s corporate influence would have a negative impact on the site. What I didn’t see coming was Mint and Patzer’s influence on Intuit’s flagship finance app, Quicken. The new Quicken Essentials [...]
Stock traders are among the many groups of people who have taken up Twitter as a way to discuss their interests. They’ve even developed their own shorthand; a stock symbol is typically prefaced with a dollar sign, such as $MSFT, and tweets that discuss stocks often end with two dollar signs. Stock Tweet App has [...]
Cost of living calculations are really tricky. They require a ton of data, and the data keeps shifting and changing. So, when you’re trying to figure out the relative difference in cost of living between two places, it’s best to have more than one source. Some time ago, I wrote about Expatistan, and commenter Jack [...]
Most carriers don’t just offer one cellphone package; you usually get a wide variety of options – how many text messages per month, how much data traffic, how many minutes, etc. Up until today, I would usually lean towards the “unlimited” options, just because it made me feel safer. After all, nobody likes to find [...]
Utterly insane: depending on which browser you use to visit the Capital One Auto Loans website, you will be offered a different APR. With Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 I experienced significantly lower rates than Chrome 8 and Internet Explorer 9 — 3.1 percent versus 3.5 percent! That could be thousands of dollars over a three- [...]
Joining many other print publishers, The Economist has just launched apps for iOS, PaidContent reports. There are two separate apps available, one optimized for the iPad, and one for the iPhone. Both contain all the material from the print editions, but there are no fancy UI effects here, compared to other magazines — it’s all [...]
Joining many other print publishers, The Economist has just launched apps for iOS, PaidContent reports. There are two separate apps available, one optimized for the iPad, and one for the iPhone. Both contain all the material from the print editions, but there are no fancy UI effects here, compared to other magazines — it’s all [...]
Most carriers don’t just offer one cellphone package; you usually get a wide variety of options – how many text messages per month, how much data traffic, how many minutes, etc. Up until today, I would usually lean towards the “unlimited” options, just because it made me feel safer. After all, nobody likes to find [...]
Cost of living calculations are really tricky. They require a ton of data, and the data keeps shifting and changing. So, when you’re trying to figure out the relative difference in cost of living between two places, it’s best to have more than one source. Some time ago, I wrote about Expatistan, and commenter Jack [...]
