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Happy Admins and Developers

December 15th, 2011 Comments off

A Work colleague  pointed this article out to me and She brings up some interesting points.

An article was published yesterday in one of Austin’s local papers about Austin’s tech talent shortage. I was job hunting just a couple months ago and get a lot of calls from recruiters and hear about friends’ companies who are hiring and I think it’s pretty damned accurate. And by accurate I mean that it points out how fucking ridiculous some of these companies are being. Flying out to SF to try and steal engineers away but not being willing to match their salaries? Seriously?

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T-Mobile Testing Android 2.1 Update for Motorola CLIQ

October 23rd, 2010 Comments off

This only took a year.  I’ve already dumped my CLIQ and bought a Nexus one.. love android now. and the nexus.  Never again will I buy a motorola smartphone.  cause I’ll bet you still can’t root them.

T-Mobile Testing Android 2.1 Update for Motorola CLIQ: “

T-Mobile confirmed to Phone Scoop via email that it is currently testing the Android 2.1 update for the Motorola CLIQ. A T-Mobile spokesperson said, ‘Motorola and T-Mobile are currently conducting a user trial for a CLIQ upgrade to Android 2.1 and are gathering feedback. We expect full deployment to begin shortly after this testing period.’ Meanwhile, Motorola has posted instructions on its web site on how to perform a manual update to Android 2.1.

 

The Death of Adaptec

June 16th, 2010 Comments off

On June 9, Adaptec Inc. announced it’s changing its name to ADPT Corp. as part of the sale of its storage business including the Adaptec brand, RAID product line, a reseller customer base, board logistics capabilities and SSD solutions, to PMC-Sierra Inc.

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