The Palm Pre is getting a lot of buzz with technocrats and techno-nerds and I count myself as one but in the world of people who ask questions when buying a computer such as “Does this get the internets?” Palm means tree or the part of your hand you slap for a high five. 10) [...]

At first I thought it was THE ONION pulling my leg – I thought haha, got me again … But nope, it’s real. So basically they are willing to spend $20 million on a new name campaign, changing corporate signs, getting new urls and junking a million business cards but they’re not willing to spend [...]

It took a while but Warner Bros. FINALLY realized – hey, there might not be 2 million fans of ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS but if a couple thousand want a copy, they’ll pay upfront for it, press one DVD and print some artwork on it – $19.95 – more than they normally make at wholesale [...]

As eBay is discovering through rapidly dropping sales – we pretty much loathe eBay. The current feeling of the general public towards eBay is the result of extraordinary arrogant customer relations since about 2000. Note that I did not use the word ‘service,’ and this should be a warning to all companies who go that [...]

In the early 1990′s, AT&T knew the world of communications was changing rapidly … the consumer internet was still virtually all dialup but the future was so bright, we all had to wear shades … so they create a series of ads highlighting wireless and wired connectivity possibilities … Keep in mind, the 1993 AT&T [...]

As general interest magazine sales are dropping (mags like Florida Ferret Monthly are doing fine publishers are trying to figure out to customize the mags (or newspapers) the way we surf the net … here’s the latest try from Time, Inc … Surf over to http://www.timeinc.com/mine – fill out a short questionnaire and pick 5 [...]

Many people especially analysts who should know better seem to think that because Apple Macs are personal computers, the company, its products & its market conditions should be judged under the same criteria as Windows PC’s in the personal computer marketplace … however, the evidence is clear that they are in DIFFERENT market segments. Of [...]

Microsoft is just NOT a consumer company. It’s Oracle, it’s Cisco, it’s Caterpillar Construction … all fine and perhaps even great companies but NOT consumer companies. It’s company culture and the people that they hire. It’s a company built on hounding you until you sign the maintenance contract. The difference in an enterprise or government [...]

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The bottom line is that iPhone does NOT need Flash – and especially now that the App Store is up & running. First, 95% of Flash used on the web is pointless. It is either used to animate an MS Paint-drawn turkey that jerkily moves across a banner asking you to ‘shoot” to win a [...]