Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Monday, 28 December 2009

New Year presents to Google employees

I read an article in NYTimes mentioning about Google's tradition of giving new year presents to its employees. 2007: an Android phone, 2008: $1000 in cash net of taxes, 2009: Nexus One

I think I am going to start worshiping Google soon :)
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Thursday, 17 December 2009

Why Google is so successfull?

I think the answer can be found easily in the following sentence:

"Over the past three years a team at Google has studied how problems such as recognizing an object in an image or learning to make an optimal decision based on example data can be made amenable to solution by quantum algorithms"
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Nexus One

All the world  is talking about Nexus One these days (ok ok, I know I am a little bit exaggerating); about its photos, specs, Google's motivation behind it -let me remind you 700 MHz spectrum auction- etc but for me the funniest thing about it is its name.

As SF fans already recognized, the name "Nexus" is used in  Philip K. Dick's wonderful novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and the related movie "Blade Runner" for the model of replicants produced by Tyrell Corp (which somehow reminds me of Google). The models range from Nexus-1 to Nexus-6, so I wonder what will be the Google's Nexus Two?
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