This weekend The New York Times published an incendiary article about work culture at Amazon. It wasn’t much of a surprise, really: anyone who has read “The Everything Store”, by Brad Stone, already knew what can you find inside Amazon. Those horror aren’t new, but when several former employees showed their hands and some as the NYT …
Month: August 2015
The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions. Amazon is quite famous for its work culture. In the recent video about work at Amazon someone said: “You either fit here or you don’t. You love it or you don’t. There is …
The small Japanese company UPQ has launched 21 gadgets in 2 months and has showed that anyone can compete with the giants if he/she has talent and works hard. From the article: When asked if she’s trying to become the Xiaomi of Japan, Nakazawa deflects. “Big Japanese tech companies are in trouble,” she says. “I want …
Several Windows 10 users require sending information back to Microsoft to take advantage of those services and improve them. Cortana and Web Search works best because of that tracking, but privacy doubts arise. You can disable most of that tracking in Windows 10 Settings, but not all of it. Peter Bright writes: We’ve argued recently …
Vlad Savov on The Verge writes: Say that you do buy the rock-bottom-priced, Shenzhen-produced Android phone with the lofty specs from a random brand. It has a replaceable battery, but where will you get one when you decide you want a spare? It runs the latest Android today, but who will ensure it does so …
Brin and Page are natural cofounders. I guess the maturity of Google is boring to them. They want to start projects, not manage them once they’re established. This a good excuse to create Alphabet and leave Google in the best hands: Sundar Pichai seems really competent. I don’t really get why Google is part of …
Apple, who never implemented the right clic mecanism on their desktop computers, now introduces it in their smartphones. Force Touch will allow to access to several options more quickly. Instead of opening up a large window of extra controls that did not fit on the screen, as is done on the Apple Watch, Force Touch on …
Steve Jobs is famous for talking about the post-PC era. Tablets seemed then to conquer the traditional PC users, but five years after the launch of the iPad here we are, still using PCs like crazy although obviously smartphones are the devices that go with us everywhere. Tom Warren on The Verge: As iOS 9 turns …
4G isn’t supported in the US, but the problem isn’t the hardware at all. Ubuntu for phones is not mature. Only recommended for Linux & Ubuntu lovers. And even those will suffer the lack of many other platform features. Source: Ubuntu phone goes global, but you’ll get slow speeds in the US | The Verge
Tech readers and users know about a new piece of technology long before most of the population does. They understand what that technology can do for everyone before people actually know that technology exists. So when that software or hardware product finally gets away from the geeky cave, their features and highlights must be clearly …