Google App Engine Blog: App Engine SDK 1.2.5 released for Python and Java, now with XMPP support - that's interesting, XMPP in App Engine. With that, you should be able to build a lot of nice tools. Gradually, the external connectivity of AppEngine is becoming quite usable.
Archive 4. September 2009
Phone Amego Help - an interesting little tool that allows you to make and answer/reject phone calls on your mobile via Bluetooth on your computer. Okay, I belong to the "nobody calls me" class of iPhone users (I hardly use it for anything other than the internet), so it's probably not very interesting for me.
Post cuts 560 jobs due to Arcandor insolvency - this clearly shows that something is seriously wrong in our economic world. Companies and CEOs claim entrepreneurial risk for themselves - but in reality, it is now 100% borne by the employees. A large company like the Post loses a major customer and immediately jobs are cut as a result. Instead of finding new deployment opportunities and new customers for the Post, the risk of contract negotiations between Arcandor and Post is shifted onto the employees. However, they do not receive a single cent more on their paycheck for the risk they bear. What exactly do people like ex-Post CEO Zumwinkel use to justify their high salaries? This certainly has nothing to do with a social market economy.