When you visited Yahoo!, perhaps on a blogger pass, often you would find a product manager or executive extolling their mainstream virtues. Every time I’d visit I’d hear that word, mainstream, and wondered if it was some derivative of their mission or boasting of begotten power. Yahoo! arguably was the first company to mainsteam open internet services. A great accomplishment that began with linking elsewhere with something that made the net more usable. Big laurels.
Google: Censorship Is A Trade Barrier
There’s something about this topic that is unsettling – the deal seems nearly devilish, beneficial and somewhat horrifying at the same time. Google’s latest plea to the US and EU governments to help fight censorship centers on the economics, not the political morality, of censorship.
Oil Crashes The $60 Barrier
As oil prices passed $60 per barrel, investors began a selloff that dropped the Dow to a 10 week low.
LightPointe Lowers Barrier for Enterprise LAN-to-LAN Bridging
LightPointe, a designer and manufacturer of optical wireless products based on free-space optics (FSO) technology, is lowering the barrier for enterprises seeking cost-effective LAN-to-LAN bridging with its FlightLite 100, the newest addition to its application-specific Flight family of optical wireless solutions.
Breaking the Voice Mail Barrier
Even if you never place a cold call, you still have to reach people by phone. That customer who was so interested last month never called you back, and now you must call her. You call once, twice, three times, but you can’t get her in person. How can you manage to close a sale if all you ever get is voice mail?
Crossing the Great Graphics Barrier
One of the first hurdles in learning Web design is understanding the use of graphics. The greatest of programmers can come up against the graphics barrier and sometimes just fall flat. Even professional desktop publishers when faced with a “design for the Web” task, can make critical errors.