Archive for February, 2008
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Friday, February 29th, 2008A lot of people seem surprised by Microsoft’s decision to drop the retail prices of Vista, including a whopping 30% reduction for Vista Ultimate.
“It’s sort of an odd move,” said Gartner analyst Michael Silver, while NPD Group’s Chris Swenson opined “I can’t remember a big price cut like this.”
Boys, welcome to the new and exciting [...]
Picnik Goes (Almost) Completely Free
Thursday, February 28th, 2008If you are looking for an excellent online photo editor, one of the best choices is Picnik.
Featuring a user-friendly interface and enough features to meet the needs of most digital photographers, Picnik has quickly gained a strong following. Of course, it’s helped that Picnik is free, although you’ve had to pay $24.95 a year for [...]
BusinessWeek’s Blackberry-iPhone Obsession
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008What with BusinessWeek trying to pull a Don King and create a heavyweight title match between the Blackberry and the iPhone?
For the third time in as many months, BusinessWeek has a story looking at the “battle” between Research in Motion and Apple for power mobile users.
Check it out:
February 27 - Apple versus RIM: Now it’s [...]
Hey, I’d Actually Pay For That
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008In the wake of Chris Anderson’s article about freeconomics in the latest issue of Wired - and a good post by ReadWriteWeb about the dangers of free - it got me thinking about what online services people would actually pay even a few dollars to use.
If you’re a blogger, would you pay to buy Wordpress [...]
It’s Raining Apples!
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008A couple of days ago, my friend, Kevin Restivo, had a provocative post that politely chided Apple for “the dizzying number of product releases” that was giving him a bad case of “Apple Fatigue”.
Lo and behold, Apple unveils some new MacBook and MacBook models today that look pretty sweet - more powerful processors, more memory, [...]
Tech Fuels NHL Trade Mania
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008In the U.S., everyone knows about Super Tuesday in which 24 U.S. states are up for grabs during the presidential primaries.
Today is Canada’s Super Tuesday. It has nothing to do with politics but, instead, marks the last day that National Hockey League trades can happen. It used to be a low-event event where a few [...]
Why Can’t Broadband be Free Too?
Monday, February 25th, 2008Chris “The Long Tail” Anderson has an excellent story in Wired - “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business” - that pushes forward the concept that “freeconomics” is taking over the Internet as the technologies that power the Internet become increasingly less expensive. Here’s his thesis in a nutshell:
“It’s now clear that practically everything [...]
Can IE8 Neuter Firefox?
Sunday, February 24th, 2008So, IE8 ready to be unleashed into private beta.
Question: will IE8 be able to fend off Firefox, which now has now has more than 15% market share?
Firefox has a few key elements going for it: momentum, a great brand and a thriving ecosystem happy to develop extensions/add-ons to make Firefox make useful. As well, the [...]
The Facebook Fatigue “Story” is Getting Tired
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Not sure about you but the whole Facebook Fatigue story is tiring.
Any time there’s a smidgen of evidence that Facebook’s growth is poised to stall or slow, the Facebook Fatigue bandwagon gets rolling again.
Why? Well, I think almost everyone is waiting for Facebook to show signs of weakness because there’s nothing like reporting that the [...]
Alert: Bloggers in Frenzy over Apparent Facebook Fatigue!
Friday, February 22nd, 2008All hands on deck, all hands on deck: the blogosphere is threatening to go overboard amid doom and gloom reports the number of Facebook users in the U.S. - gasp! - fell in January by 800K (according to comScore) to 33.9 million users from a month earlier.
Is Facebook officially OVER?
Has Facebook Fatigue finally HAPPENING?
Should Mark [...]