O'Reilly
APRIL 23, 2024
Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.
Tasktop
MARCH 31, 2022
BMW’s IT department has had to become faster, more innovative, and increasingly focused on quality. Everything must be cloud-ready, scalable, networked, connected and secure, such that pure coding is now the smallest part of IT initiatives. Tasktop has been partnering with BMW since 2011.
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Speed Curve
JUNE 14, 2021
To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark. Why SpeedCurve?
Tasktop
AUGUST 29, 2019
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Published back in 2011, this has become an industry classic and is definitely required reading. For more information, visit: [link]. Author: Eric Ries. For more information, visit: [link]. Authors: Eliyahu M.
All Things Distributed
JANUARY 19, 2011
By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. A whole range of innovative new services, ranging from media conversion to geo-location-context services have been developed by our customers using this flexibility and are available in the AWS ecosystem. All Things Distributed. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud.
The Agile Manager
MARCH 25, 2011
First, most mobile subscribers aren't bound to a network. While the name of the game is scale, these dynamics suggest it's not a mature market share game for the networks yet, as much as they're caught in the middle. Which brings up Sprint in 2011. If true, this makes the networks more spectator to the action than central to it.
Rigor
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications.
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