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...Apple is failing at moving to the Web/cloud," says Sachin Agarwal, who spent six years at Apple before founding Posterous, a Web service that simplifies and streamlines tasks such as blogging and posting to social networks. "MobileMe [Apple's service that syncs e-mail, contacts and calendar events] has not succeeded here, and they are in a vicious cycle, since that makes it hard to recruit smart Web developers...
...campus, we usually pitch it as a social event,” Berkenfeld said. “I don’t think we had as much of an impact on this race as we would have if we didn’t have the calendar change...
People stockpiled gold and grain and canned chicken chow mein in anticipation of the apocalypse that didn't happen. But few foresaw the apocalypses that did, not to mention the then inconceivable phenomena - Twitter, Twilight, Rachael Ray. So we come to a new calendar eager to assign certainty; each month has its rituals, and somewhere, someone is forever celebrating something. January, naturally, is National Oatmeal and Hot Tea Month. April, less naturally, is Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month. July seems a strange month to choose as Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness month. I don't want to be aware of anything...
Year-end lists and new year's resolutions are as easy to mock as they are to make. But in uncertain times, reviewing and previewing are serious business. They let us imagine we can impose some order on the fresh calendar page - marking holidays, graduations, movie premieres, tax-free back-to-school shopping week - even as we wait to see which days, now anonymous or devoted to watching groundhogs, will be raised from obscurity to eternity in the history books...
...violence that broke out during the protest on Dec. 27 - the mourning day of Ashura, the most sacred date on the Shi'ite calendar - was seen by many experts as a possible turning point in the increasingly bitter struggle between the hard-line regime and the opposition green movement. Not only was it the first time that security forces opened fire had on protesters since last June's election sparked the mass antigovernment demonstrations, but the protesters also took unprecedented risks, attacking police with rocks and other weapons and leaving their faces uncovered. (Read "Iran's Hard-Liners...