If you missed it the king’s of the movie rental business, Blockbuster, is being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. I guess the news wasn’t totally surprising. After all Oregon’s very own Hollywood Video, bought by a Texas company called Movie Gallery, went bankrupt a few months ago. And every little movie rental place [...]
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powerOne Honored As Staff Pick
June 18, 2010How exciting to wake up in the morning and see that the sales have doubled. I never expect it but it has happened a couple of times. After a moment of shock, I now know to go check out the App Store and see what honor we received. For the first time, starting last night, [...]
Free Doesn’t Mean Cheap: powerOne Lite Introduced
June 17, 2010When I started in this business (1997), advanced calculators — scientific or financial — were expensive. The cheapest full-featured scientific calculators were $20-30 and easily ranged up into the hundreds of dollars. Real financial calculators were $40-120. So we wrote financial and scientific calculators and charged money for them. Our first financial calculator was $39.99, [...]
A Modicum of Success!
April 20, 2010The good times continue here. Now we aren’t talking dollars to retire on, but it is nice to actually be able to pay the bills. I will be the first to tell you that making things happen in Apple’s App Store is hard to do, but for once we were out in front. Being on [...]
A Crazy Couple Of Weeks
April 7, 2010Wow! This has been a great couple of weeks. Two weeks ago we were still discussing an iPad version of powerOne calculator. Since then I have had lots of meetings, a trip to Apple HQ (with Dick Luebke), shipped an iPad version of powerOne (universal as the same version works on iPhone, iPod touch and [...]
