Linked List: October 11, 2009

Sunday, 11 October 2009

What Caused the Microsoft/Danger Disaster? ★

Make no mistake: this is a large-scale catastrophic loss of valuable data. The story reported here, that it was a botched SAN upgrade with no backup in place, jibes with what I’ve heard on background.

It betrays Microsoft’s utter disregard for the value of Sidekick customer data and the veracity of Murphy’s Law.

Name Squatting in the App Store ★

One solution would be for Apple to stop treating app names as unique, at least for those which aren’t yet released. It’s not like music albums or songs or movies are required to have unique titles.

Google Search Options for Mobile ★

I love the comments from Windows Mobile and BlackBerry users complaining that it doesn’t work in their crummy browsers.