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Dell needs to focus on quality again
So HP is beating up on Dell and as a result Dell fired its CEO and brought back the founder to try and revive the company. It’s not going to be easy, Michael Dell has a lot of work ahead if he hopes to regain the crown from HP.
First off, he needs to improve quality. […]
I got Valleywag-ed
Valleywag linked to my site this morning. Ironically somebody told me that Valleywag used to be one of Cahall’s favorite sites. Would love to have been there when he saw the original Valleywag posting, I wonder if he got as angry as the time he nearly hit me in the CNET offices?
Hint to the AOL folks: […]
Oracle portal sucks
I was fighting with Oracle Portal today, and in a moment of frustration I thought I’d check to see if anybody owned oracleportalsucks.com. Turns out nobody owned it so I snatched it up and slapped together a little site to take out my frustrations.
It’s amazing how easy it is nowadays to put up a quickie […]
HD-DVD may have won the format wars, thanks to porn
At least one pundit reports from the Adult Entertainment Expo (held in Las Vegas to coincide with CES) that the porn industry universally favors HD-DVD over BluRay as the next-generation format. Those of us old enough to remember the whole Betamax-vs-VHS battle also remember that porn essentially decided that fight in favor of VHS. Sony […]
A surfeit of PS3’s, but not a single Wii
I figured it’s been a couple weeks since Christmas so I went looking to see if there were any Wii’s available. No such luck–not a single damned Wii anywhere I went.
The weird thing though is that the PS3 seems to be widely available. There were units available at almost every store I visited. Wal-Mart, Circuit […]
First-mover doesn’t always win
Google’s emergence as the de-facto Web search standard proved that the so-called first-mover advantage isn’t always an advantage on the Internet. Late-arriving competitors have time to study the market better, and to learn from the mistakes made by the first-movers. And because the Internet makes it almost trivial to switch suppliers, customers can easily move from […]
Microwave weapon cooks you just enough so you run away
The Air Force has apparently received final approval to deploy a so-called “non-lethal” weapon called the Active Denial System (ADS). It fires a burst of radiation that creates an intense burning sensation in the skin. Enough that even the toughest test subjects only lasted a few seconds before they ran away to escape […]
Sony may have shipped less than 200,000 PS3’s to the US
Wow, if this study is true then Sony really botched their US launch of the Playstation 3. They had already lowered expectations by saying they’d have only 400,000 units for the launch event last Friday. Well now it appears they may have shipped as few as 125,000 units to the US.
That’s just horrible. […]
Photos from the GeekSquad event
I did not catch the Fabio-and-helicopters act that GeekSquad did in the morning, but I did stop by in the evening for a little bit of their free concert. Did not stick around for the headliner, All American Rejects, but I did snap a few low-res photos with my ancient Treo 600:
GeekSquad
CNET claims traffic dropped only 13%, not 55%
comScore had reported earlier that CNET’s page views for the most recent quarter had dropped a precipitous 55% compared to the year-earlier figure. Yesterday CNET released their third-quarter financials which included their own internal traffic figures that show only a 13% drop in page views.
I’m guessing the truth is somewhere in between. comScore’s […]