Jul 2
Repair a Computer, Go to Jail!
| In Texas you have to be a licensed Private Detective to repair computers. And any consumer using anyone other than a licensed PI to fix his or her computer can be thrown in jail. Firefox users more secure on the Internet. Microsoft beginning to rent software starting in mid-July. Rhapsody going to put a dent in iTunes. Mac OS-X surges 32-percent. Microsoft officially retires XP. Say it’s not so: Micro-hoo back in play? Feds looking into Google-Yahoo deal. HP rolling out a $599 hotrod computer. Meanwhile, Dell buying back stock for personal account. Netgear doing an Open Source Router. |  |
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Jul 1
Ballmer Says Bill Gates Designed the IBM PC. Huh?
| Did Steve Ballmer say Bill Gates created the IBM PC? Is he high?. Meanwhile the company is battling VM-ware, Orbitz to replace Expedia on MSN. IPO’s in the doldrums. When did the full-frame camera become hot? The semantic search is a dead-end, says I. Adobe gives Yahoo and Google special flash search code. Samsung Instinct handset is hot. Smart phones now catching on with new implementations. Family Guy creator does deal with Google. | |
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Jun 30
600,000 Laptops Stolen in Airports a Year
| Norway probling Microsoft. Everyone has to get into the act. Lo-Jack for laptops? More than 600,000 laptops stolen in airports yearly. How does this happen in these “secure” airports? AD blockers worry advertisers. Why does Sun Microsystems have a chief gaming officer? EBay burned for allowing sales of fakes. Samsung pushing OLED. Look for Rhapsody to attack iTunes. No more Bill Gates stories. | |
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Jun 27
Slow PS3 Sales in the News
| Bill Gates coverage delivers 1109 articles today alone. This has to hurt the stock. Susan Decker in the news for unknown reason. Intel sticking with XP, hates Vista. Microsoft to buy Powerset. Slow PS3 sales being blamed on thing or another. Should Microsoft be busted up? Rethinking the old idea. Oracle may get $1 billion over SAP suit. Virgin Mobile buying Helios. | |
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Jun 26
Will Bill Gates Please Leave the Building!
| New top level domains still in play. Look for dot.porn among other names. A land rush projected. 700 redundant news stories today about Bill Gates and how he’s retiring. Cripes. When will it end? Dell adding colorful laptops. What took them so long? Microsoft indeed going on a buying spree. Intuit does layoffs. This is all the news they can manage. Yahoo reorg news also clogging up the news channels. Susan Decker is now the boss it seems to me. Should the US nationalize the Internet? Symbian versus Android? What can Sarbanes-Oxley do for you? Nothing. | |
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Jun 25
Fiji Government Outraged over Microsoft
| T-Mobile pushes home service for $10 a month unlimited. Texas Size-asteroid hit Mars. How do they know? Charter Communications does good deed, stock falls. Gates stories keep coming and they are killing us. Averaging 200-300 stories a day! California doomed if it gets hotter. XP may be available past June 30. Media goes back and forth on facts. Windows Fiji coming. Lobbyists not spending enough. Users personal information battles beginning. | |
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Jun 24
16 Core Processor from Sun
| 167 redundant news articles about Bill Gates quitting Microsoft. Cripes, how boring. Comscore tumbles on Google news. ICANN fooling around with the TLD’s again. Contradictory stories abound. I check out a few. Microsoft pledges XP support through 2014. SUN doing a nifty 16-core processor. Larry Lessig pushing broadband initiative. Germans ban the G-mail name. You have to do a workaround. Yahoo-Google deal triggering hearings. Kodak buying back its shares. | |
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Jun 23
Google Android Delayed
| Google Android delayed. Bill Gates getting ink everywhere. It’s ridiculous. The Mac finally gets hit with a couple of Trojan Horse programs. Welcome to the club boys! MPAA thinks evidence is over-rated. What? Toshiba uses Cell chip in a laptop. Prediction: dead-end. Chinese ripping off themselves. Chinese brand-name phones being copied by Chinese. One billion computers now in use. | |
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Jun 21
#PodCampSeattle was GREAT!
Since I could not be at all the sessions for PodCampSeattle, I decided to set up camp in one room and broadcast it via uStream and qik, which in turn re-streams to mogulus, youtube, and many other services.
Feel free to view any of the additional footage on http://qik.com/thecolor or http://youtube.com/thecolor in addition to the ustream video below. I’ll try and post more about the camp later.. soooo tired. And, for some reason, a blog about it seems sooo “history” since it’s been done, recorded, streamed and just been out there for all to have seen and see again… know what I mean? :) Definately something I’d recommend attending next they are in your neck of the woods.
P.S. ustream, by the dot com, I keep screwin’ that up. Yes, yes… sorry all for my faux pas, it’s not ustream.com it’s ustream.tv
Jun 20
Cell Phone to Be Used as Boarding Pass
| Hot weather in California means no good news. Ballmer making more noise than ever. He mentions that MSFT blundered in the search business. Microsoft says no buying spree. China says its not investigating Microsoft story continues. All this means is that they ARE investigating. Delta to use cell phone as boarding passes. Firefox up to 14 million downloads. Its started to crash on me and give me weird errors. FCC tells Sprint-Nextel to get out of 800 MHz band in 30 days, or else. I recommend my own column in Marketwatch. | |
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