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Archive for May, 2010

Hazards of BlackBerry-walking

27 May 2010

He looked up, gave me a momentary stare as if he was heartily pissed that I’d disrupted his messaging, and marched on without so much as an “excuse me.”
A policeman sets an excellent example. See how he stands still and texts?
It happened to me the first time just outside a Cellulite Center on Madison [...]

AMD CEO sees Netbooks going away

24 May 2010

The lightweight HP Pavilion dv2, which uses the AMD Neo processor, is marketed as a notebook
This sentiment is actually backed up to some extent by Intel’s recent behavior. Intel CEO Paul Otellini, in that company’s earnings conference call last week, spoke oddly of Netbooks in the past tense. He said the buzz around Netbooks at [...]

Report Google testing one-stop shop for video ads

20 May 2010

Last May, Google turned the switch on for its TV ad program, which is designed to enable advertisers to bid on TV ads, and pay for those ads when they are actually clicked on and delivered. In September, five months after its official debut of Google TV Ads, the company announced partnerships with Bloomberg TV, [...]

A quick talk with Scott Cook, Intuit’s co-founder

18 May 2010

Scott Cook demos new TurboTax for Mac at MacWorld.
Regarding hanging out with The People, Cook simply said that it’s a great way to get customers to talk to him for free (versus paid surveys, I assume) and that it’s good to hear what you are doing wrong (as a Quicken for Windows user, I [...]

Analyst iPod shortage spreading

15 May 2010

(Credit:
Apple)
Wu believes that consumers are indeed making hard choices about what they buy this holiday season, but thinks that the iPod benefits from “strong consumer understanding of the value it provides” when push comes to shove.
An
iPod shortage at Amazon.com appears to have spread to other distribution channels, according to an analyst.
It had [...]

Podcaster So good, Apple won’t let you have it

03 May 2010

Apple has told Alex Sokirynsky that he cannot distribute his Podcaster app for
iPhone via the Apple iTunes store since, he reports, “it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.” This is a crime that Apple is perpetrating on iPhone users, and it is a lie, since Podcaster does something iTunes doesn’t do, and it adds real functionality to the iPhone that lots of people, like me, really want.

I’ll spare you the paragraphs of righteous indignation