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Take, for example, Zuckerberg’s recent ski trip to Vail Resort in Colorado, planned as a vacation for Zuckerberg and Moskovitz—a respite from days of coding and trips to the server racks in the San Francisco Bay Area. That weekend, however, problems arose with the site, and the server facility didn’t have enough power to support the steady traffic of bored college students looking up “singles” who like “trance music” at two in the morning...
...furious Fiorino reacted by publicly firing the server unit's boss and two others, the board began to take a harder look at her performance. By early January, outside directors, led by Dunn, ex--White House science adviser George Keyworth, and Richard Hackborn, a former HP chairman who once turned down the CEO job, read her a four-page critique. At a board planning session later that month, the directors, growing bolder, presented Fiorina with her effective demotion. The approach of a damning cover story in FORTUNE reportedly hastened her departure. The piece, headlined "Why Carly...
UNCOMMONGOODS.COM Heart-shaped vases, glass balloons, velvet herbal slippers and a high-heel cake server (don't ask) are among the many offbeat gifts you'll find here...
...beam Bridget. One of the leaders in this potentially lucrative field is Tel Aviv-based Wisair. The company's founder and chief executive David Yaish touts a variety of applications for his chips; a phone outfitted with UWB could download songs and videos from the same living-room server. Digital and video cameras outfitted with UWB could transfer their contents to home PCs, sans wire. Not only does UWB handle larger files faster than wi-fi, but it consumes much less power, says Yaish. Result: longer battery life on a UWB device than on a wi-fi gadget...
Could this really be true? Well, I don’t understand how. In 2001 Northwestern University deployed a system for delivering 20 cable channels over the college network. According to articles in the student daily paper at Northwestern and in the online trade publication Network World, the server hardware cost $13,000, and the licensing fees were $8 - $15 per student per year. This comes out annually to something like $65,000 annually plus some $20,000 initial investment. Now, Harvard officials have said the real cost would be in upgrading network infrastructure to handle the additional traffic?...