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Thursday, July 2, 2009

And for You, Mr. McNamee? Ah, Yes–The Boiled Crow Sandwich.

mcnameePalm seems to have satiated pent-up early demand for its new Pre smartphone, constrained supplies be damned. In a pair of investor notes issued today, analysts at Pali Research and JP Morgan say that sales of the Pre have tapered off to a point where supply and demand are roughly in parity.

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Friday, June 12, 2009

Microsoft Announces Windows F(E)U Edition

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Palm Pre: 100,000 Sold So Far

greatest-american-hero_prejpg-150x150Palm has shipped 100,000 Pres since the device debuted on June 6. This, according to J.P. Morgan analyst Paul Coster, who estimates that more than 50,000 phones were sold in the first two days it was available and says the company may have sold another 50,000 in the days that followed.

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Palm Pre: The Big Day …

sprintstoreThe Palm Pre officially went on sale this morning, and judging from initial reports–and my experience at a local northern California Sprint store–neither demand or supply was particularly overwhelming. Certainly, lines for the device were far shorter than those that extended from Apple stores for the launches of the iPhone and the iPhone 3G. Arriving outside my local Sprint store about an hour after they first opened, I found not a queue of eager Pre-buyers, but two kids making forts out of a few Pre shipping boxes left outside the store.

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Palm Pre Ready for Launch

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Our Macs? They’re in the Back Between the Toasters and PCs.

Those store-within-a-store Apple boutiques that have been appearing in Best Buys around the country may soon start popping up in Wal-Marts as well. That’s the word from Ben Reitzes, an analyst with Barclays Capital, who believes the retailer hopes to add the Mac to the PC lines it peddles.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

WebGameTV

onlivelogoThe days of the traditional gaming console are coming to an end–according to entrepreneur Steve Perlman, anyway.

Later today, Perlman–a former principal scientist at Apple and the founder of WebTV–will officially unveil OnLive, the online service with which he hopes to upend the $46 billion world-wide videogame market.

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

How Many iPhones Could Wal-Mart Sell? Well, That’s Obvious, Isn’t It?

Though Wal-Mart has made no official announcement regarding the reportedly imminent arrival of Apple’s iPhone on its shelves, it would seem that the big-box retailer will begin peddling the device before the year is out. If that’s the case, how many iPhones is Wal-Mart capable of selling?

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Microsoft “Done” With Yahoo Bid

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iPhones at Wal-Mart Are Fine. But Steve Draws the Line at QVC.


Come late December, customers shopping at their local Wal-Mart will be leaving the big-box retailer not just with vacuum cleaners and massage cushions, but with iPhones as well. Boy Genius reports that Apple’s iconic phone will begin arriving at select Wal-Mart locations on Dec. 28.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Best Buy Boosts Consumer Lack of Confidence Index

No one is immune to the econalypse. Not even “Specialty Retailer of the Decade” Best Buy. The company today joined the sad conga line of retailers lamenting the recent turmoil in the financial markets. Citing continued weakness in consumer spending, the company slashed its fiscal 2009 profit forecast.

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Monday, September 29, 2008

In Other News, Employees Spend 25 Percent of Work Time Reading Stupid Surveys

Astonishing. The average prole spends more than 25 percent of his or her time online at work on personal activities. That’s the word from IT consultancy Voco, apparently having just discovered that the Internet, which essentially puts a concert hall, movie theater, TV, brokerage firm, shopping mall, garage sale and family/friend gathering on every employee desktop, can be–gasp–a distraction in the workplace.

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Friday, September 26, 2008

Ballmer’s Solution to Financial Crisis: Stop Watching CNBC

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Best Buy Lands iPhone Deal

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No, Steve Won’t Be Attending the Best Buy Launch. Your Logo Hurts His Eyes.

Come next month there will be another retail outlet at which to wait in line for an iPhone. On Sept. 7, Best Buy will become the first U.S. retail chain to sell the iPhone outside of the Apple-AT&T duopoly. The deal is an obvious coup for the big-box retailer, which, with the exception of Apple and AT&T, has a national exclusive on the device through Christmas.

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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alt.misc

  • 10 Best Uses Of Classical Music In Classic Cartoons

    Includes “Pigs in a Polka,” “Rabbit of Seville” and, of course, “What’s Opera, Doc?”

  • Web Site Story

    Take the famous ballads and duets of West Side Story, insert a dozen mentions of famous social media sites like twitter and facebook, and this is what you get.

  • Wooden iPod

    An iPod mini rebuilt with a wooden case

  • Han Solo, P.I.

    Star Wars meets Magnum, P.I.

  • The “literal video” collection

    Music videos recreated with new lyrics based on what’s actually happening in them. Daydream Believer and Total Eclipse of the Heart are particularly good.

  • E-Mail From Your Facilities Department

    In response to numerous e-mails, I have no idea what planet the giant alien creature is from. Judging from its enormous gills, I’d have to guess it’s from a watery planet. Reminder: please let me know if you plan to be in the office on Memorial Day so I can request HVAC for your floor.

  • Amazon Customer Reviews: Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt

    For those of you who mock the wolf shirt beware. There is an old Navajo story about a young man who made fun of another man for wearing a wolf trio shirt. Legend has it that in his sleep, the wolves on the other man’s shirt came to life and tore his body to shreds. They never found any part of that man’s body. The Wolf is something to be respected and feared, not treated like a novelty.

  • Nice Muscle!

    Hands down the most inexplicably bizarre game for Wii I’ve ever seen

  • Respectful Yo Mama Jokes

    Yo mama is so attractive she could be on the cover of Prevention.

  • Introduction to Microcontroller Programming: The Flatulometer

    The inspiration for this project was to determine who could generate the worst flatulence measurable in a personally unbiased manner.

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