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5Words for Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Shouldn’t Acer skip Android netbooks? Amazon buys Netflix? Try Microsoft. Did Twitter users kill Bruno? Windows 95 on your iPhone. Why teenagers don’t like Twitter. Bricks, sold as new iPods. Does Samsung’s camcorder outflip Flip? Samsung devices to stream Blockbuster. Windows 7 users like it.

5Words for Tuesday, June 2nd 2009

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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Calm before the E3 storm… 4GB iPhone? I remain dubious. Acer to build Android notebook. DoJ: remote DVRs are legal. SanDisk’s SD card for netbooks. World’s. Cutest. Digital. Audio. Player. Foveon? They’re still in existence? Coming soon: more Twitter spam. Blu-Ray in a portable package.

Yahoo Share to Likely Shrink in 2009

Thursday, April 9, 2009

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Definitely not good news for the world’s second biggest search provider. Yahoo is set to lose a chunk of market share over the next year or so, experts say. This is due to the loss of two toolbar partners: HP, who signed up with Microsoft’s Live Search toolbar early last year; and Acer who silently switched [...]

5Words for April 8th, 2009

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

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Lotsa news tidbits this Wednesday: Windows 7 users: happy campers. More BlackBerry Storm 2 rumors. Nintendo DS: pocket video player. Apple sued over touch screens. 200 million people use Facebook. Almost all e-mail is spam. More and more Twitterers. Acer unleashes tons of notebooks. Better broadband? FCC’s getting going. Word’s father returns to earth. .

AT&T’s Fifty-Buck Laptop

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

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What do you do after everybody in the country has already signed up for a two-year contract to get a cheap cell phone? Looks like AT&T thinks that signing them up for a two-year contract to get a cheap netbook might be the next step. The company has announced that it’s experimenting in company-owned stores [...]

Mobile World Congress: One Day, Sixteen New Phones

Monday, February 16, 2009

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Phones. More phones. Phones that look a lot like iPhones, except for the ones that don’t. Phones that may never show up in the good old US of A. Phones that are full of style, and ones that seem to be devoid of discernible personality. That, in short, was my Monday at Mobile World Congress [...]

Sacrilege! 16 Other Time-Honored Tech Industry Traditions We Should End Right Now

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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Forty-eight hours after the news broke, it’s still kind of stunning. One day, the Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld Expo is arguably the most famous ritual in all of technology. The next day, it’s gone–apparently just because Apple was ready to move on. For a number of reasons, I wish it wasn’t ending. But as [...]

RadioShack’s $99.99 (Kinda! Sorta!) Netbook

Friday, December 12, 2008

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There’s something (mildly) magical about the idea of a computer that sells for $100. It captured the imagination back in 1982, when Timex introduced this one. People still call the OLPC XO a “$100 laptop” (plug: we’re giving one away) even though OLPC hasn’t yet ground the price down to $100. And now RadioShack–who some [...]

Gateway: Direct Sales No More

Friday, July 25, 2008

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This is kinda sad: On Friday, Taiwanese PC giant Acer announced that its Gateway subsidiary will stop selling PCs direct to buyers over the Web and will focus on indirect sales–that is, through retailers such as Best Buy, Circuit City, and Costco. Along with Dell, Gateway created the direct-sales PC market starting in the mid-1980s; [...]