Archive for September 6th, 2008
I Love My MacBook But $750 is $750
This will, no doubt, get the Mac Nation up in arms but sometimes the difference in price between a MacBook and Windows-based laptops makes you wonder. Here’s a good example: this week, Best Buy (Canada) has an “exclusive” deal on an Acer Extreme for $399. Here’s what you get: - 14.1″ screen - 1GB RAM - 120 GB hard drive - Dual layer DVD burner - ATI Radeon X1250 graphics card - Vista Home Basic At first glance, it’s seems like a great deal if you’re l...
I Love My MacBook But $750 is $750
This will, no doubt, get the Mac Nation up in arms but sometimes the difference in price between a MacBook and Windows-based laptops makes you wonder. Here’s a good example: this week, Best Buy (Canada) has an “exclusive” deal on an Acer Extreme for $399. Here’s what you get: - 14.1″ screen - 1GB RAM - 120 GB hard drive - Dual layer DVD burner - ATI Radeon X1250 graphics card - Vista Home Basic At first glance, it’s seems like a great deal if you’re l...
Whats all the hype about Google Chrome?
Just another another browser, yet much of the media has it as a Microsoft Killer. I can’t see how. Google Chrome is probably better then IE, but so is Firefox, and it took years for Firefox to get the market share it has now. Googles track record in developing software is not very good - it takes Google a long time to finish applications and they are slow in adding features. So why all the hype ...
Xbox Now Cheaper than Wii (But for How Long?)
With the Nintendo Wii retailing for $249, Microsoft now says that it is cutting the price of its Xbox consoles! This move will lower the price of its 360 Arcade by $80, to $199, and other models will see a $50 reduction, to $299 and $399. Microsoft has lost ground over the summer to second-place Sony’s PlayStation 3, and analysts noted it marked the first time a current-generation console has sold for less than the Wii. Let’s see how low those prices go before the holiday ...
The Bush/McCain economy is good for Skype
The U.S. misery index is up. Unemployment is at a five year high. The US dollar is at a generational low. Home loans are hard to get and usurious if you get them. College is out of reach for millions. Petrol so expensive that people aren’t traveling, are rethinking location decisions like where they work and live, how often they visit family, are cutting shopping trips and buying more online. This is good for Skype adoption in the United States. Cheap is Skype’s gateway drug. We s...
We Keep Doin’ the Gadget Redo …
Consumers remain willing to spend money on consumer electronics — for replacing older units or buying new ones with more advanced technology — even though most homes already own those same products, according to a new report from The NPD Group. Although 85% of consumers own DVD players and sales dropped 25% in the first half of the year, NPD reports that consumers are still interested in buying upconverter units or Blu-ray players to take advantage of HD technology, noting that sale...
F|R: 5 Reasons to Go All Angel à la Lookery
This week, Lookery, the ad network launched last July to serve über-cheap ads into Facebook applications, has announced a new $2.25 million round of funding. It’s a nice sum for the 14-month-old startup, which now sends Facebook some 3 billion ads a month, according to Lookery’s CEO, Scott Rafer. But here’s what’s really interesting: Rafer and his cofounder, David Cancel, elected to raise the money almost entirely from angels, forgoing the traditional venture capital most companie...
Samsung’s Green Gadget Returns Mean Free for All
Samsung has announced free recycling for all Samsung-branded consumer electronics in all 50 states, beginning October 1. Samsung has just announced its Recycling Direct, a program that will enable consumers in all 50 states to recycle Samsung-branded consumer electronics devices like televisions, monitors, DVD players, home theater systems, cameras, camcorders, printers, peripherals — essentially, all Samsung-branded consumer electronics. (Look for the one in the photo above at a recycl...
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The 10 Laws of Cloudonomics
If your enterprise has access to the same things — virtualization, automation, performance management, ITIL, skilled IT resources, etc. — as cloud service providers, would clouds provide any real and sustainable benefit? Public utility cloud services differ from traditional data center environments — and private enterprise clouds — in three fundamental ways. First, they provide true on-demand services, by multiplexing demand from numerous enterprises into a common pool ...
Earthscape for iPhone to Add Geotagged Photos
I moderated a panel on the future of mobile phone technology for accessing MMOs at the Virtual Worlds Expo in LA this week, but one of the most interesting demos showcased there was a very cool iPhone application for the real world: the ability to upload geotagged photos onto a 3D map of the plane in near real time. It’s an upcoming feature for Earthscape, an iPhone app that renders satellite imagery into a navigable, 3D map of the world — think Google Earth at your fingertips. 3...
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