Why Is Tech Still Struggling With Diversity And Inclusion?
Diversity and safety at tech events shouldn’t be difficult. So why does the industry keep failing?
Tag: fail
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is reviewing something
While browsing Amazon for a region 2 version of The Princess Bride, this review stood out: I rented this because it got such good reviews, but oh dear…. My eleven-year-old twins wanted to know when the fighting would begin, they found the constant swopping back to the little boy with his grandfather deeply annoying, and their attention definitely wandered. I have to say I found it an incredibly long film. Yes, there were moments of humour – which my twins enjoyed – but that ratty creature…. Talk about naff special effects, and – plot spoiler here – my twins were
BlackBerry’s Stephen Bates and his version of The Two Ronnies on Mastermind
I get the feeling Stephen Bates has attended a lot of media training to deflect questions. The Two Ronnies went for “answering the question before last”, while Bates this morning went for “answering the question he hoped he was going to be asked, and not the difficult one that was asked.” Here it is, on BBC Breakfast News. I think he got away with it…
Nokia and Symbian’s biggest issue in one simple quote
Lee Williams via CNet. When I was at Nokia and we shipped a Symbian product and it was bad, in its worst incarnation we knew that if we just flipped the switch, we could move 2.5 to three million units — overnight, no matter how bad the product. That was Nokia. That was Nokia’s brand, we knew we could count on that. The problem is you can only pull that trick once before the networks see the customer feedback. 24 months later, all those customers looking to buy another smartphone on contract… didn’t buy a Nokia.
When you love, love like they do in power ballad…
What, you mean that it’s only going to be four minutes long, there’s going to be hair in all the wrong places, and the whole time you’re thinking Bonnie Tyler was better? Sometimes greetings cards really miss the mark for me.
"[Blackberry] came together at the right time, the right place, with the right technology"
Disappointing reading on the rise and fall of Research in Motion. But at the same time the laser-like focus at RIM that appears to have hobbled them feels like the same laser-like focus at another company; it’s just that Apple aimed slightly differently with the iPhone.
