Sea Launch

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The Florida Group has officially
announced the launch of its Siesta Key
Real Estate site launch

The Florida Group has officially
announced the launch of its Siesta Key
Real Estate site launch 08/18/2004 02:36 AM
The Florida Group has officially announced the launch of its Siesta Key Real Estate site launch, http://www.sarasotagroup.com. The launch comes at a convenient time for realtors in the Siesta Key area, with claims that real estate is “booming”. [PRWEB Aug 18, 2004]

Q Comm Broadens Market With Commercial
Launch of Its Prepaid Application for
the Verifone Omni 3750 Launch Comes
Ahead of Schedule

Q Comm Broadens Market With Commercial
Launch of Its Prepaid Application for
the Verifone Omni 3750 Launch Comes
Ahead of Schedule 06/10/2004 03:18 AM
Q Comm International, Inc. (Amex: QMM; QMM.WS), a provider of prepaid transaction processing and electronic point-of-sale (POS) distribution solutions, today announced that it has commercially launched its prepaid application for the VeriFone Omni 3750 terminal. This new application will enable the electronic distribution of prepaid and related services through the Omni 3750, which is a payment-processing terminal currently used for merchant processing of credit and debit card payments in thousands of locations. Q Comm supports the Omni 3750 terminal with its proprietary backend transaction processing platform. Once the new Q Comm firmware and POS software are downloaded onto the terminal, which can occur remotely over a standard phone line, the terminal can be used immediately to sell any of the prepaid products in Q Comm’s product library including wireless, long distance, home dial tone, Internet, MasterCard and more, as well as the postpaid or “bill pay” services of Verizon, Sprint and others. [PRWEB Jun 10, 2004]

Dubai Municipality and Dubai eGovernment
launch Dubai Municipality and Dubai
eGovernment launch online payment

Dubai Municipality and Dubai eGovernment
launch Dubai Municipality and Dubai
eGovernment launch online payment 11/17/2003 05:28 AM
AME Info Nov 17 2003 4:34AM ET

SFR Launch 3G

SFR Launch 3G 06/17/2004 11:44 AM
3G Jun 17 2004 3:51PM GMT

A9 Launch

A9 Launch 04/14/2004 05:10 PM
Amazon has launched A9, a search tool which enhances Google search results by adding results from Amazon's Search Inside The Book program, site information from Alexa, and search and site history information they've collected. Nothing particularly exciting, but it's interesting to see Amazon do search engine innovation....

Sensis to re-launch

Sensis to re-launch 07/05/2004 01:00 PM
Source: News.com.au - Telstra has revealed the date when it will unveil plans to revamp its Sensis business with a new, youth-focussed search engine....

Asustek may launch value n

Asustek may launch value n 12/30/2004 04:55 PM
Techzonez Dec 30 2004 7:35PM GMT

Blinkx to Launch

Blinkx to Launch 07/20/2004 10:55 AM
Source: John Battelle's Searchblog - A free new search tool that thinks and links for you, eliminates the need for keywords or complex search methods, easily finding the information you seek whether it is on the Web, in the news...

Launch a new product

Launch a new product 04/27/2004 02:40 PM
Internet Works Apr 27 2004 5:54PM GMT

AT&T Wireless may be near 3G launch

AT&T Wireless may be near 3G launch 07/19/2004 09:33 PM
The wireless carrier schedules a briefing Tuesday about an "innovative new wireless service offer."

CSL Launch 3G and Wi-Fi Services

CSL Launch 3G and Wi-Fi Services 12/30/2004 06:46 AM
3G Dec 30 2004 9:47AM GMT

Sonera to launch 3G Oct. 12

Sonera to launch 3G Oct. 12 09/21/2004 02:34 PM
Telecoms.com Sep 21 2004 4:26PM GMT

Launch Items X 1.7

Launch Items X 1.7 07/02/2004 09:39 PM
Open files with customized applications from contextual menus.

ATI to launch new Radeon X

ATI to launch new Radeon X 12/27/2004 07:18 PM
Techzonez Dec 27 2004 11:00PM GMT

ATI to launch X800 PRO on 4th of May

ATI to launch X800 PRO on 4th of May 04/17/2004 05:01 AM

Mac-Apps-Launch-1.90

Mac-Apps-Launch-1.90 06/08/2004 05:21 PM

Panasonic Looks To Uae For 3g Launch

Panasonic Looks To Uae For 3g Launch 04/16/2004 04:58 AM
ewirelessnews Apr 16 2004 9:46AM GMT

Orange launch UK 3G

Orange launch UK 3G 07/01/2004 11:59 PM
Xinhua News Agency Jul 2 2004 4:34AM GMT

Launch the Editor

Launch the Editor 07/20/2004 11:24 PM

Joel on Software - Fire And Motion: I just found this two-and-a-half year old essay by Joel Spolsky, and I'm frankly aghast at how aptly it describes how I code.

For me, just getting started is the only hard thing. An object at rest tends to remain at rest. There's something incredible heavy in my brain that is extremely hard to get up to speed, but once it's rolling at full speed, it takes no effort to keep it going.

It's true — there's a stunning amount of inertia in programming. Coding is often such a thought-intensive operation, that it takes a while to get into a groove.

It's not like cleaning the house, where you can just start picking stuff up and seeing an improvement right away. With coding there's a ramp-up time after you "launch the editor," as Spolsky puts it. You have to look through your code, figure out where you where at, ask yourself "why don't I just do it this way" then get 15 minutes into that before you realize that's what you were doing when you quit the last time and there's a very good reason why it won't work, etc.

It can be discouraging sometimes, especially when you don't get prolonged coding time. If you get interrupted, you lose at least three times the actual length of the interuption, because there's an inertia period on either side that you have to deal with.

DevX had a great article last year that was so true. They talked about how programmers get into a "flow":

Flow takes time to achieve, and it is fragile. If a programmer's flow is interrupted it can take a large amount of time for her to regain the state, sometimes up to an hour. That's an hour of lost productivity to your team. If a programmer is interrupted many times during the day she may never reach this state. Without this state, creativity is crippled.

Interuptions are the bane of programmer. Spolsky said this about his new offices:

I probably pay more attention to my physical surroundings than the average software developer. I might take it too seriously. But there are three reasons I take it so seriously: (1) There's a lot of evidence that the right kind of office space can improve programmer productivity, especially private offices....

(How did Spolsky become so concerned about this people? He swears by this book.)

Anyway, back to Spolsky's original essay — he concludes by with this:

[...] you have to move forward every day. Sooner or later you will win. All I managed to do yesterday is improve the color scheme in FogBUGZ just a little bit. That's OK. It's getting better all the time. Every day our software is better and better and we have more and more customers and that's all that matters. Until we're a company the size of Oracle, we don't have to think about grand strategies. We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.

Yep — set modest daily goals, if that's what you have to do. Five small goals achieved on five separate days add up to one moderate goal at the end of the week.

I'm working on an uber-system right now, but amid everything else I have to do in the average day, I can spare maybe one hour. So I write down one small thing that I want to implement by the end of the day. One small thing, each day, equals progress at the end of the week.

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Google To Launch an IPO

Google To Launch an IPO 04/26/2004 07:04 PM
California's Internet-search pioneer Google has hired Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley to run its initial public offering.

HDS to Launch New Blades For NAS

HDS to Launch New Blades For NAS 04/01/2005 12:16 PM
Internet News Apr 1 2005 3:29PM GMT

T-Mobile 3G Wi-Fi launch

T-Mobile 3G Wi-Fi launch 07/27/2004 01:16 PM
Computer Weekly Jul 27 2004 3:05PM GMT

3G Webl0g Launch

3G Webl0g Launch 09/23/2004 11:32 AM
3G Sep 23 2004 2:45PM GMT

E-Plus to launch consumer 3G

E-Plus to launch consumer 3G 07/27/2004 09:05 AM
DMeurope.com Jul 27 2004 1:34PM GMT

O2 Commercial 3G Launch

O2 Commercial 3G Launch 06/28/2004 05:01 AM
3G Jun 28 2004 8:53AM GMT

MSN Is On a Launch Roll

MSN Is On a Launch Roll 08/05/2004 10:11 AM
MSN is beta-testing a slew of new products and services, including a new blogging service, local-hard-drive search and a new Web-based messaging client called MSN Web Messenger.

PSP Launch Coverage

PSP Launch Coverage 03/24/2005 07:38 PM

Discovery on launch pad

Discovery on launch pad 04/09/2005 02:57 AM
Usatoday.com - Fri Apr 8, 08:02 am GMT

Sensis set for re-launch

Sensis set for re-launch 06/16/2004 06:16 PM
Australian IT,Australia-19 minutes ago ... manager, marketing, who joined Sensis two months ago, says it is hoped Sensis will be come the byword for information in the same way that Google has become ...

PV Comics launch

PV Comics launch 01/07/2004 02:57 PM
Free comics in a switchable high/low-bandwidth layout using Stuart Robertson's CSS image map technique (ALA issue 166).

MS to launch Xbox 2 on 12 May

MS to launch Xbox 2 on 12 May 04/11/2005 10:49 AM
TV spectacular planned for console's debut

Orange set for UK 3G launch

Orange set for UK 3G launch 07/01/2004 07:05 AM
BBC Jul 1 2004 10:24AM GMT

AOL to Launch Into Space

AOL to Launch Into Space 04/11/2005 05:47 PM
Internet News Apr 11 2005 9:30PM GMT

Launch of SmarTone iN on 3G

Launch of SmarTone iN on 3G 12/22/2004 01:33 AM
3G Dec 22 2004 5:30AM GMT

Siemens to Launch Next-Gen IP PBX

Siemens to Launch Next-Gen IP PBX 04/27/2004 09:39 PM
The company's HiPath 8000 RealTime IP System, meant to bring VOIP technology to large enterprises, emphasizes centralized systems deployment, lower total cost of ownership, standard hardware and protocols.

True Launch Bar

True Launch Bar 07/14/2004 10:04 AM

SFR Aim For 3G Wireless Launch

SFR Aim For 3G Wireless Launch 02/11/2004 02:29 AM
3G Feb 11 2004 6:49AM GMT

Tele 2 Launch 3G

Tele 2 Launch 3G 06/01/2004 10:24 AM
3G Jun 1 2004 2:06PM GMT

ATI to launch RX480 AMD

ATI to launch RX480 AMD 09/16/2004 06:56 PM
Techzonez Sep 16 2004 10:39PM GMT
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