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Time named Bob and Clippy as two of "The 50 Worst Inventions", calling the former an "expensive and overly cutesy" piece of software that was "designed around Clippy". [8] PC World ranked the product No. 7 on its list of "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time" [7] and Complex No. 27 on its list of "The 50 Worst Fails In Tech History". [3]
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Because software, unlike a major civil engineering construction project, is often easy and cheap to change after it has been constructed, a piece of custom software that fails to deliver on its objectives may sometimes be modified over time in such a way that it later succeeds—and/or business processes or end-user mindsets may change to accommodate the software.
Unfortunately, the arrival of that message would cause those other systems to fail too – resulting in a cascading failure that rapidly spread across the entire AT&T long-distance network. [44] [45] In January 2009, Google's search engine erroneously notified users that every web site worldwide was potentially malicious, including its own. [46]
The failure of Lehman Brothers opened the floodgates in September of that year, and the tech index got whacked for an additional 31% loss, losing some 40.5% by the time the year was up.
Led by India with 116 shutdowns, governments weaponized Internet access at an all-time high in 2023, a new report finds. 2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds Skip to main ...
The video game industry layoffs are a part of the broader tech industry layoffs that began in 2023; [20] many such layoffs have been attributed to artificial intelligence, [21] although increased interest rates, reduced demand from consumers and excessive hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic have also been cited as causes.
Worst performers AMD (-53.31%) If Apple takes the top spot of best-ish performers despite its share price falling more than 25%, you know the worst performing stocks had to have a terrible year.