Twisted Bingo for Twisted Minds
Friday, November 28th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Happy Black Friday! As traditional as turkey dinners, football and extended family dysfunction; Black Friday is, of course, the day after Thanksgiving that traditionally is the biggest shopping day of the year kicking off the holiday season. Given the economy, I'm ...
Tech Turkeys of 2008
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »This is easy! - Windows Vista (Number one two years in a row now) - The economy - All the VC money that went with it. - Microsoft's attempt to buy Yahoo! - Yahoo! management ignoring that the offer was actually a good price ...
Weighing In On The Death of PC Magazine
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »I wasn't going to say anything. As a tech journalist, it's a little too close to the bone speaking of the deceased. But, I have to throw in my two cents worth after reading Alice Hill's (of RealTechNews) column within ...
Spacebook, Er Uh, I mean Facebook
Monday, November 24th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Just how pervasive is Facebook? Here's a neato visualization of "Facebook actions" developed by a group of Facebook engineers. They call it Project Palantir (yes, there's a Lord of the Rings homage in there). It's a view from space of ...
Sonata Sounds Like Music To My Ears
Friday, November 21st, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | 1 Comment »A little known company, Boston Power, that makes laptop batteries is reportedly close to announcing its first major customer. Word is, Boston Power's Sonata battery could be coming to a laptop near you in the near future. No word on which ...
Blackberry Storm Watch
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »You likely won't see people camped out in lawn chairs (for one thing it's November and too cold) to purchase one, but Blackberry Storm is hitting shelves of Verizon stores tomorrow with much hype regardless. It's the first touchscreen Blackberry with ...
My Gmail Is Creeping Me Out
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »I'm rethinking my e-mail address. It's a huge decision to switch e-mail accounts. But Google you are weirding me out! You get what you pay for. I understand that. So naturally, there are ads displayed down the right side of my ...
Presidential Requirement: Be a Luddite
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Although no firm decisions have been made (forced) on our new President-elect, Barack Obama. It's not looking good. Blackberry is likely to lose its most famous customer. It's likely President-elect Obama is more upset about it than RIM (Blackberry's parent ...
