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Acer’s AcerCloud

January 9, 2012

Acer’s AcerCloud

Acer just showed off its AcerCloud service, something that already sounded suspiciously like Apple’s iCloud. Even the “PicStream” element sounds a lot like Photo Stream. Still not convinced? Acer basically ripped off Apple’s slide wholesale, outside of the font, which is a simulacrum of Apple’s font of yore.

Acer’s biggest announcement at CES was (discreetly) that they’re now Samsung.

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Schools will Mint Rs. 1200 Cr selling Nursery Forms, says Study

Leading public schools in Delhi are likely to earn a revenue of over Rs 1,200 crore through sale of nursery admission forms this year, as against nearly Rs 1,000 crore in the previous year.

The report stated that parents do not wish to limit their options and, therefore, apply to almost 30 schools on an average, shelling out nearly Rs 20,000 in the process.

That is an insane amount of money being shelled out just to stand in the race for getting admissions. That’s about US$227,855,311 just by selling admission forms for the nursery level. Wow!

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The Dearth of Android Software Updates

John Gruber on the death of Android Software Updates:

[…] it’s the difference between a company that simply wants to sell you a device, and a company that wants to sell you a device and make you happy that you bought it. Making a sale versus fostering a relationship between customer and the company.

No cookies for guessing which company he’s talking about here.

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Tanjore – The web is what you make of it

Another one of Google’s brilliant ads. My favorite still remains this one.

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5byfive

December 22, 2011

5byfive

A fantastically minimal website to look up Album Art for all the missing albums in your music library.

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