In her article, “Fox In Yahoo!’s Henhouse“, Wendy Tanaka of Forbes wrote: “Icahn will have help in getting a Microsoft deal done. As part of his settlement with Yahoo!, two of his cronies will also get seats on the board.” Regardless of your opinion of Carl Icahn, I find it odd that a reporter for… Read More »
According to Parks Associates’ Digital Media Habits II report, people are increasingly using their TVs to play music at home. The report was based on a Q3 2007 survey of 2,000 broadband households in the US and Canada. The survey found that the number of households using a TV to listen to music equalled the… Read More »
In his post “The iPhone iFiasco“, Mitch Wagner wrote about his seven-hour ordeal buying an iPhone 3G and concluded: Well, some kind of apology would be nice, along with a bit of cash to compensate customers who had problems with activation, similar to the gift certificates Apple gave out last year when they cut iPhone… Read More »
Apparently, 12,000 laptops are lost each week in major airports in the US, more than 65% of which are never reclaimed, according to a study sponsored by Dell and conducted by the Ponemon Institute. (You can download the PDF here.) The problem is not just a matter of hardware loss, but “53% of people admit… Read More »
Ok, a Blu-ray Disc “guaranteed to preserve data safely for over 200 years” is a claim that may not exactly be impossible to prove, but would you (or your descendants) even bother? Delkin Devices, manufacturer of the Archival Gold BD Recordable media, says that its patented “phase-change” recording materials allow the discs to withstand the… Read More »
I know a hundred ways to die I’ve often thought I’d try one: Lie down beneath a motor truck Some day when standing by one. Or throw myself from off a bridge – Except such things must be So hard upon the scavengers And men that clean the sea. I know some poison I could… Read More »