3 posts and columns on Soviet

Maybe Googlers Eat Their Own Dog Food, but Will It Be Tasty to Anyone Else?

in News on December 14, 2009 at 12:34 am PT

Leave it to Google to compare its most aggressive new product to date with one that often includes meat by-products, bone meal, brewer’s rice, corn syrup and–yum!–“dried animal digest.” But that’s exactly how the company chose to describe its new Nexus One smartphone in a blog post Saturday, noting that its employees would be “dogfooding” it. As in eat their own product! Get it? But will big wireless carriers and consumers like what Google plans to serve up?
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Mossberg: Hero of the People United Against the Soviet Ministries, Oops, I Mean Cellphone Carriers

in News on October 23, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

With thanks to engadget, we repost this portrait of our beloved leader at AllThingsD.com, Comrade Walt Mossberg. Walt has long railed on the topic of the stifling of innovation by the U.S. cellphone carriers–especially to me over dinner when I am really tired–so it is nice to see it in a terrific piece you should [...]