Archive for November, 2009
Crunchpad Appears Dead
A damn shame. Michael Arrington reports the death of his really slick tablet.
I’m Sorry
I realize this link is going everywhere, but when I laugh this hard I need to share. You are welcome.
Tivo on My Mind
Tivo gave their earnings statement today (reported by Reuters), and while it was not the end of the world, it was not encouraging. I have owned a series 2 Tivo, and it was amazing. Incredibly user friendly, best consumer electronics remote control, great experience overall. We stopped our Tivo service when we cut our cable [...]
Another Opinion on Bing/News Corp
Dan Lyons over at Newsweek also writes a column on this deal. He goes at it from the angle that this is going to do the opposite of what everybody thinks it is going to do: seriously drive traffic away, and not from Google.
More On the Microsoft / News Corp. Deal
Businessweek has an article that brings up many of the same points I had, just with more authority. I still do not see how this deal benefits either company in the long-term.
Microsoft Getting Squeezed by Google and Apple?
Great article on TechCrunch on Apple and Google squeezing Microsoft’s cash cow. I can see why the News Corp. and Bing deal may be a case of simple retaliation.
Microsoft Will Not Save the News Industry
For those owners of websites who do not want their content indexed by google, please edit your robots.txt file and shut up about it. Which leads me to today’s bombshell news: News Corp is probably going to yank their search results from Google and sell them to Bing. This is just such a bad idea, [...]
