Here’s the the video:

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Aggregating 100′s of sites into a  single app with a gorgeous design, making it simple to consume content.

Watch the video for Google Currents here:

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I must admit, even though I’m a huge Apple fan, I quite like the ad from Samsung.

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Names have been replaced with xxxx, even though I would LOVE to leave them in.

Dear Co-Workers,

As many of you probably know, today is my last day. But before I leave, I wanted to take this opportunity to let you know what a great and distinct pleasure it has been to type “Today is my last day.”

For nearly as long as I’ve worked here, I’ve hoped that I might one day leave this company. And now that this dream has become a reality, please know that I could not have reached this goal without your unending input of support. Words cannot express my gratitude for the words of gratitude you did express.

I would especially like to thank all of my managers: in an age where miscommunication is all too common, you consistently impressed and inspired me with the sheer magnitude of your information. It takes a strong man to admit his mistake – it takes a stronger man to attribute his mistake to me.

Over the past 18 months, you have taught me more than I could ever ask for and, in most cases, ever did ask for. I have been fortunate enough to work with staff absolutely interchangeable supervisors on a wide variety of seemingly identical projects – an invaluable lesson in overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily tedium.

Your demands were high and your patience short, but I take great solace knowing that my work was, as stated on my annual review, “mostly satisfactory.” That is the type of praise that sends a man home happy after even a 9 hour day, smiling his way through half a bottle of mostly satisfactory scotch.

And to most of my peers: even though we barely acknowledged each other within these office walls, I hope that in the future, should we pass on the street, you will regard me the same way as I regard you: sans eye contact.

But to those few souls with whom I’ve actually interacted, here are my personalized notes of farewell:

To xxxx xxxx: I will always remember sharing lunch with you, despite having clearly labeled it with my name.

To xxxx xxxx: I will miss those days that you always translated English phrases incorrectly.

To my first training team: I will not forget the time we spent the fun we had and all the laughter that rang out xxxx xxxx and xxxx xxxx.

To Team xxxx : last but not least thank you for always having been there to stick things out whenever we had problems or a word or two yes that people know very well who they are but I go to mention one person xxxx xxxx I’m going to miss you music everyday “I can be your freak” you guys rock.

So, in parting, if I could pass on any word of advice to the individual who will soon be filling my position, it would be to cherish this experience like a sponge and soak it up like a good man, because a job opportunity like this comes along only once in a lifetime.

Meaning: if I had to work here again in this lifetime, I would make sure that I come back to team xxxx.

Very truly yours,

What are your thoughts on it?

F1 race calendar 2011

1.	13 Mar 2011		GP Bahrain	Bahrain International Circuit
2.	27 Mar 2011		GP Australia	Albert Park
3.	10 Apr 2011		GP Malaysia	Sepang International Circuit
4.	17 Apr 2011		GP China	Shanghai International Ciruit
5.	8 May 2011		GP Turkey	Istanbul Park
6.	22 May 2011		GP Spain	Circuit de Catalunya
7.	29 May 2011		GP Monaco	Monte Carlo Circuit
8.	12 Jun 2011		GP Canada	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
9.	26 Jun 2011		GP Europe	Valencia Street Circuit
10.	10 Jul 2011		GP Great Britain	Silverstone Circuit
11.	24 Jul 2011		GP Germany	Nürburgring
12.	31 Jul 2011		GP Hungary	Hungaroring
13.	28 Aug 2011		GP Belgium	Circuit De Spa-Francorchamps
14.	11 Sep 2011		GP Italy	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
15.	25 Sep 2011		GP Singapore	Marina Bay Street Circuit
16.	9 Oct 2011		GP Japan	Circuit Suzuka
17.	16 Oct 2011		GP Korea	Korean International Circuit
18.	30 Oct 2011		GP India	Jaypee Circuit
19.	13 Nov 2011		GP Abu Dhabi	Yas Marina Circuit
20.	27 Nov 2011		GP Brazil	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, Interlagos

The new(ish) CEO, Stephen Elop, has sent out a fairly brutal, yet frank memo to his staff in prep for the announcements expected this week. This too just days before the 3GSM conference kicks off in Barcelona.

The full memo is below the break:

Hello there,

There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from a loud explosion, which suddenly set his entire oil platform on fire. In mere moments, he was surrounded by flames. Through the smoke and heat, he barely made his way out of the chaos to the platform’s edge. When he looked down over the edge, all he could see were the dark, cold, foreboding Atlantic waters.

As the fire approached him, the man had mere seconds to react. He could stand on the platform, and inevitably be consumed by the burning flames. Or, he could plunge 30 meters in to the freezing waters. The man was standing upon a “burning platform,” and he needed to make a choice.

He decided to jump. It was unexpected. In ordinary circumstances, the man would never consider plunging into icy waters. But these were not ordinary times – his platform was on fire. The man survived the fall and the waters. After he was rescued, he noted that a “burning platform” caused a radical change in his behaviour.

We too, are standing on a “burning platform,” and we must decide how we are going to change our behaviour.

Over the past few months, I’ve shared with you what I’ve heard from our shareholders, operators, developers, suppliers and from you. Today, I’m going to share what I’ve learned and what I have come to believe.

I have learned that we are standing on a burning platform.

And, we have more than one explosion – we have multiple points of scorching heat that are fuelling a blazing fire around us.

For example, there is intense heat coming from our competitors, more rapidly than we ever expected. Apple disrupted the market by redefining the smartphone and attracting developers to a closed, but very powerful ecosystem.

In 2008, Apple’s market share in the $300+ price range was 25 percent; by 2010 it escalated to 61 percent. They are enjoying a tremendous growth trajectory with a 78 percent earnings growth year over year in Q4 2010. Apple demonstrated that if designed well, consumers would buy a high-priced phone with a great experience and developers would build applications. They changed the game, and today, Apple owns the high-end range.

And then, there is Android. In about two years, Android created a platform that attracts application developers, service providers and hardware manufacturers. Android came in at the high-end, they are now winning the mid-range, and quickly they are going downstream to phones under €100. Google has become a gravitational force, drawing much of the industry’s innovation to its core.

Let’s not forget about the low-end price range. In 2008, MediaTek supplied complete reference designs for phone chipsets, which enabled manufacturers in the Shenzhen region of China to produce phones at an unbelievable pace. By some accounts, this ecosystem now produces more than one third of the phones sold globally – taking share from us in emerging markets.

While competitors poured flames on our market share, what happened at Nokia? We fell behind, we missed big trends, and we lost time. At that time, we thought we were making the right decisions; but, with the benefit of hindsight, we now find ourselves years behind.

The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don’t have a product that is close to their experience. Android came on the scene just over 2 years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes. Unbelievable.

We have some brilliant sources of innovation inside Nokia, but we are not bringing it to market fast enough. We thought MeeGo would be a platform for winning high-end smartphones. However, at this rate, by the end of 2011, we might have only one MeeGo product in the market.

At the midrange, we have Symbian. It has proven to be non-competitive in leading markets like North America. Additionally, Symbian is proving to be an increasingly difficult environment in which to develop to meet the continuously expanding consumer requirements, leading to slowness in product development and also creating a disadvantage when we seek to take advantage of new hardware platforms. As a result, if we continue like before, we will get further and further behind, while our competitors advance further and further ahead.

At the lower-end price range, Chinese OEMs are cranking out a device much faster than, as one Nokia employee said only partially in jest, “the time that it takes us to polish a PowerPoint presentation.” They are fast, they are cheap, and they are challenging us.

And the truly perplexing aspect is that we’re not even fighting with the right weapons. We are still too often trying to approach each price range on a device-to-device basis.

The battle of devices has now become a war of ecosystems, where ecosystems include not only the hardware and software of the device, but developers, applications, ecommerce, advertising, search, social applications, location-based services, unified communications and many other things. Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem. This means we’re going to have to decide how we either build, catalyse or join an ecosystem.

This is one of the decisions we need to make. In the meantime, we’ve lost market share, we’ve lost mind share and we’ve lost time.

On Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s informed that they will put our A long term and A-1 short term ratings on negative credit watch. This is a similar rating action to the one that Moody’s took last week. Basically it means that during the next few weeks they will make an analysis of Nokia, and decide on a possible credit rating downgrade. Why are these credit agencies contemplating these changes? Because they are concerned about our competitiveness.

Consumer preference for Nokia declined worldwide. In the UK, our brand preference has slipped to 20 percent, which is 8 percent lower than last year. That means only 1 out of 5 people in the UK prefer Nokia to other brands. It’s also down in the other markets, which are traditionally our strongholds: Russia, Germany, Indonesia, UAE, and on and on and on.

How did we get to this point? Why did we fall behind when the world around us evolved?

This is what I have been trying to understand. I believe at least some of it has been due to our attitude inside Nokia. We poured gasoline on our own burning platform. I believe we have lacked accountability and leadership to align and direct the company through these disruptive times. We had a series of misses. We haven’t been delivering innovation fast enough. We’re not collaborating internally.

Nokia, our platform is burning.

We are working on a path forward — a path to rebuild our market leadership. When we share the new strategy on February 11, it will be a huge effort to transform our company. But, I believe that together, we can face the challenges ahead of us. Together, we can choose to define our future.

The burning platform, upon which the man found himself, caused the man to shift his behaviour, and take a bold and brave step into an uncertain future. He was able to tell his story. Now, we have a great opportunity to do the same.

Stephen.

If you don’t know what the deal is, check out the article on iMod posted yesterday and the Bandwidth Blog post

You should also follow @AnonOpsNet on twitter to stay up to date with the attack strategy.

Configuration Guide for Operation Payback

Windows:

• If you do not, install MS. NET Framework 3.5
• Download LOIC Hivemind and unzip it to your desktop.
• LOIC starts running Loic.exe.
• Server (server): irc.AnonOps.net
• Channel (canal): # loic
• Choose “HiveMind mode.”
• Sit back and enjoy the show.

Linux:

• Download and extract the latest version of LOIC
• Open a terminal and type (without quotes) “sudo apt-get install wine” and expects to complete the installation
• In a terminal type (without quotes) “wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks.”
• In a terminal type (without quotation marks) winetricks sh “and select dotnet20 application, and install
• Go to Applications>> Wine clicking on “Browse C: drive” then move the extracted files in c LOIC:
• Now go to where you moved the files and select properties and give LOIC.EXE
• In the Permissions tab select “allow executing file”
• Right click on LOIC.EXE and then open with Wine

P.S. Do this at your OWN risk. My stance on this is that there are better ways to fight this fight, but others passionately believe that this will work.

See other Nando’s ads that I have posted before.

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:21:43 -0100 (GMT)
From: anakata
To: KMWLAW@flash.net[/email]
Subject: Re: Unauthorized Use of DreamWorks SKG Properties

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 KMWLAW@flash.net wrote:

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As you may or may not be aware, Sweden is not a state in the United States
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Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here.
For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.

Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium,
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Please also note that your e-mail and letter will be published in full on

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Polite as usual,
anakata