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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Weekend Update 10.31.09–Heartbreaks, Heartthrobs and Heart Attacks

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BoomTown’s week began onstage in front of thousands of chanting women. No, Kara wasn’t filling in for Oprah; she was doing something much cooler.

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

OMFG: 4.1 Billion Text Messages Sent Every Day in U.S.

imagesSome 740 billion text messages were sent in the first half of 2009 in the U.S. This according to the CTIA’s semiannual wireless industry survey, which helpfully breaks down that astonishing figure to an even more astonishing 4.1 billion texts per day. That’s about double the number sent during the same period last year.

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Monday, October 5, 2009

85 Percent of Mac Switchers Forgot to Toss Windows PC

mac-pc-shutupApproximately 12 percent of all computer-using U.S. households own an Apple machine, and nearly 85 percent of those also own a Windows-based PC. That’s the conclusion of an NPD survey that suggests that Mac households favor multiplatform environments, buy more gadgets and have the higher income needed to afford them.

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Microsoft Tweaks Laptop Hunter Ads

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Laptop Punters

lauren-2Microsoft COO Kevin Turner must be so disappointed. Remarking on the company’s “PC Hunter” ad campaign last week, Turner said he’d been ebullient when attorneys for Apple called to complain. But now the company has quietly modified the ad in question to address Apple’s complaints.

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Monday, July 13, 2009

Here’s an Idea to Boost Notebook Sales: Call Them Netbooks…

toylaptopConsumers may have trouble distinguishing netbooks from notebooks, but that’s clearly not preventing people from buying them. DisplaySearch, an NPD Group subsidiary, estimates that netbooks will claim a 20 percent share of the world-wide market in 2009.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Area Netbook Owner Still Waiting for Final Cut Studio 2 to Load

netbook-hpWhat’s the difference between a netbook and a notebook? If you know the answer, you’re in the minority…of netbook owners. According to a survey by market research outfit The NPD Group,
60 percent of consumers who purchased netbooks assumed they would function just like regular laptops. Consequently, only 58 percent were satisfied with their purchases.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Insert HP “Hot Deals” Joke Here

hotdealsIf you’re reading this on an HP Pavilion or Compaq Presario laptop, you might want to switch from battery to AC power before reading the remainder of this post. Fearing they might burst into flame, Hewlett-Packard is recalling 70,000 lithium-ion batteries that shipped with several types of its portable machines.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Boy, Apple’s Design Aesthetic Really Didn’t Rub Off on Kindle 1.0 at All, Did It?

kindle_patentWhat propitious timing. At a press conference in New York City later this morning, Amazon is expected to announce a new large-screen Kindle designed for reading periodicals and textbooks. And yesterday, on the eve of that announcement, came word that the company had been awarded a patent on the original Kindle design. The patent, #D591,741, is entitled “Electronic media reader” and it makes just a single claim.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Insert Bad “Wi-Fli” Pun Here…

laptopheadsockAmerican Airlines domestic passenger jets are fast becoming a fleet of airborne Wi-Fi hotspots. After a successful six-month pilot program on 15 planes, the airline will expand its in-flight Wi-Fi service to 300 more over the next two years.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

New Dell Laptop Exceeds Military Specs for Durability, Ugliness

latitudexfre6400back_thumb_14b4e507jpgIt can survive a three-foot drop and withstand water sprayed from a fire hose. It’s sea fog-resistant. It meets military specifications for thermal shock and explosive environments. And if you hit someone with it hard enough, you’d probably kill him. What is it? A Dell laptop, believe it or not.

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Monday, January 5, 2009

Steve Jobs’s Health: Chalk It Up to Hormones

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Take Me Away From All These … Layoffs

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Friday, October 31, 2008

Sir, We May Want to Rethink That “Blazing Speed” Ad Campaign

Sony’s battery brouhaha certainly holds its charge well. Two years after initiating the largest battery recall ever in the electronics industry, Sony announced another after customers reported more than a dozen incidents of faulty lithium-ion notebook batteries bursting into flame.

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Monday, October 20, 2008

Yahoo to Start Bleeding Purple

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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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