Archive for: October 4, 2008

A Fortune Magazine composition looks at hand-held computing’s most beleaguered major player and wonders whether it wouldn’t be better off hitching its wagon to Google’s coat-tails and adopting Android. After shunting aside its own, old-and-creaky OS in favor of Microsoft’s it’s been hanging its hope…

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Windows XP just refuses to die. Have you ever notice that in movies they hit the poor guy just tough abundant to stun him, thereupon go about their commerce with their back turned to him while he slowly gets up and surprises them by attacking again? In that allegory, Microsoft management is the cu…

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Filed under: Handhelds
Before we go any further, we’d like to inform that here Telson UMPC that whether Pandora can finally get out of the starting blocks, so can you. nowadays, we’re looking at new evidence that Digital dice (the handheld’s new parent) could be inching ever closer to bringing that …

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The New York Times and The Guardian both published interesting editorials about Microsoft’s latest press blitz in Europe, and its promotion of Windows 7, “Windows Cloud,” and its positioning against Google.Original post by donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams)

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Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsFirst off, we’ll warn you that these reports are currently unconfirmed by the suits in Redmond, but word has it that Microsoft is working with at least one OEM to have the Windows XP “downgrade” deadline pushed out from January 2009 to at least July 31, 2009. That’s acc…

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Filed under: Portable Audio
SanDisk just released a firmware update for the Sansa Fuze — pretty minor, apart from it adds in support for FLAC and Ogg, which should manufacture fans of jam bands and lossless music encoding extremely happy. Nothing much else of note here apart from some UI tweaks and…

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It’s shocking to even take in ourselves confess that we’re licking our chops for a specific MID, but it’s true. BenQ seems to have nailed most everything on the long-awaited MID S6 by including an 800MHz Intel Atom CPU, 4.8-inch WVGA (800 x 480) display, 512MB DDR2 RAM, a 2GB …

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If you’re looking for a party, Wall Street probably isn’t the place you’re going to find one. And to produce things worse, there are apparently humans out there who are wilfully trying to invent the life of the folks on Wall Street (and subsequently, the rest of the world) even harder. By making up …

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The spam study doesn’t mean much in terms of who actually wins the election, but it does show spammers are staying on top of what names are hot among Net users.Original post by Brenda Stokes

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Yeah, the wait for October 22 (or after) is absolutely excruciating; trust us, we know. We’ll take every scrap of knowledge and imagery we can to hold us by until G1s start showing up on doorsteps in a few weeks, but T-Mobile’s really gone above and beyond the sign…

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Filed under: Laptops
date to face the music, folks — 18.4-inches is the new 17-inch. Sony’s recently unveiled VAIO AW is undoubtedly going toe-to-toe with HP’s new HDX 18t, and while both will garner all sorts of stares from onlookers, it appears that the VGN-AW190 may have an edge in terms of extr…

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It's not often Matt Drudge posts a headline about a company laying off fewer than 20 workers--especially nowadays. He did it today with Gawker Media's announcement 19 employees would be released while the company would ditch its traffic based writer bonus payments and readjust its priorities. Gawker's announcement is more important than just the 19 jobs lost because of what it says about the economy via-a-vis new media companies.

A little background here. Gawker Media is the company responsible for Gizmodo, Fleshbot, Defamer, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Valleywag and Gawker (the up-to-date list is tough to compile as there are conflicting lists on Gawker's own sites). As David Carr pointed out in the NY Times, Gawker's definition of journalism is decidedly not old school.

"...a chain of professionally staffed blogs that eschewed media conventions like, oh, fairness and reporting, for brutal, well-turned takes on fairly mannered industries.

Where Gawker is old school is its pursuit of cash and fear of a flat economy. As published on Radar, Gawker's chief Nick Denton minced few words in defending his defensive position even while year-to-year revenue is up 30%.

"But now the credit crisis is clearly going to affect every sector of the economy. Advertising buys typically plunge after the Christmas shopping season, and 2009 is obviously going to be exceptionally difficult. We have to prepare for the worst, now, rather than when the worst comes upon us."

Among the Gawker blogs set to take the biggest hit is Consumerist--a personal favorite and daily must-read for me. Yesterday, in an open letter to his readers, editor Ben Popken revealed he'd be ...