Khirman & Son

It is sad to write something bad about a good company, but they deserve it….Probably…

In the Former Soviet Union ( oh, boy, how I love the sound “former” ), whenever we had a political discussion in the family room, we used to rotate a phone dial a half way and fix it in this position with a pen. Why, you may ask? Somehow we believed that it prevented “people who need to know”  from snooping after what we talked about. (Soviet-made rotary phones had a microphones connected directly to the line. ) Someone may call it “a paranoia”, but not the ones who survived “advanced socialism” experience….

To accelerate application development for the future "G-Phone", Google announced a $10 Million challenge .

On the first stage ( submission deadline March 3, 2008), Google will pick up 50 projects and fun each one with $25k to finish development.

The second stage is even more attractive - 20 best projects will receive $275k and $100k awards ( after they will prove to be useful on the real hardware to be released at this time).

More info : http://code.google.com/android/adc.html

Just find by reference from Andrei Alexandrescu  web site:

"Why a new debugger?" you may ask. The answer is simple: increased productivity achieved through a simple, easy to use interface and advanced features such as expression evaluation , conditional breakpoints, watchpoints, and scriptability.

May 31, 2007, at Google Developers Day ( GDD07) Google announced Gears – a small AJAX framework that “enable offline functionalities for online applications”. Despite the shyness of publicly declared goals, many believe that Gears is a long expected first step in Google strategy to take on Microsoft dominance.

  "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I  approved of it."
 Mark Twain

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries  with great pleasure."
 Clarence Darrow