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When searching for product, 70% search for generic product name, 20% for brand names

Most people conducting an on-line search for electronics and computer products use generic terms rather than trade marked retailer or branded products terms, according to comScore Networks study sponsored by Overture (a Yahoo! property). 85% of searchers conduct additional searches later in the shopping process, but the majority of consumers...

Tags: CE/C

Blog posts 2004-12-19

When searching for product, 70% search for generic product name, 20% for brand names

Most people conducting an on-line search for electronics and computer products use generic terms rather than trade marked retailer or branded products terms, according to comScore Networks study sponsored by Overture (a Yahoo! property). 85% of searchers conduct additional searches later in the shopping process, but the majority of consumers...

Tags: CE/C

Blog posts 2004-12-19

Additional Resources

Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destination

Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destinationmulticoreinfo.comCheck out http://multicoreinfo.com for multicore related news and programming resources.Tired of CoresI'm tired of the core nonsense. How about we use the existing cores more effectively?Anyone stick a scratched CD/DVD into a Vista machine and enjoy the explorer freeze-up while some blocking i/o is going on?...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tahiti, multi-core, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Apple sells 1M iPhones; 10M apps downloaded

Apple sells 1M iPhones; 10M apps downloadedDisposable incomes at work and homeSo why do I keep reading the same news over and over again in the headlines about the mortgage industry falling apart and fuel prices and health plans going up? I'm sure the Apple buyers aren't delaying payments...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Cell phone as desktop computer

Cell phone as desktop computerGood stuffThat is a really good idea and if Microsoft doesn't implement it, someone will like meS. Jobs said something similar not too long agoIn a WSJ interview he said that he thought we'd see most big advances come from "devices" rather than normal computers.The conversation...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, phone, computer, cell phone, desktop, desktop computer, docking station, keyboard

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

iPhone aims for pole position

iPhone aims for pole positionActually......that is not usually the Microsoft way. People key on the "Plays for Sure" situation like its evidence of a trend. It isn't.Historically, Microsoft has made platforms that were available to everybody. I'm not entirely sure why they went the path they did...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., hardware, pole position, Microsoft Corp., hardware division

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

Windows Embedded 'Quebec' due in 2010

Although it hasn't said much about its plans for a Vista-based successor to its Windows XP-based  embedded operating system, Microsoft already is working on one. Microsoft released during the first week of June a new test build of its latest Windows XP-based embedded operating system, known as...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Windows Embedded, Quebec, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Why MinWin speculation matters

Why MinWin speculation mattersPresumably......Windows CE will continue to exist as a separate product, but future versions would use the MinWin kernel. I would find it hard to believe that MS would maintain multiple Windows kernels if they didn't have to.UNIX-like is more shrinkableBoth Linux and Mac OS X easily...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, iPhone 2, MinWin, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-04

Why MinWin speculation matters

MinWin has re-emerged as a source of debate since Microsoft last week released a few more details regarding Windows 7. Previous discussion of the "MinWin" kernel by engineers related to the Windows 7 team would have led one to believe that MinWin was a fancy new kernel that would be released with...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Kernel, MinWin, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Ozmo Devices aims to replace Bluetooth with Wi-Fi-based PAN

Ozmo Devices demoed yesterday a new personal area network PAN technology that employs Wi-Fi and aims to replace Bluetooth for peripherals connectivity. The company unveiled its Wi-Fi PAN at the Computex tech trade show in Taipei. The solution comprises a software...

Tags: Personal Area Network, Bluetooth, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Data Portability: The Microsoft angle

Data Portability: The Microsoft angleLets see is MS can devise a systemthat will allow data in and out of MS systems with an open format that has no locked data formatting which will generate into "We can't let you have the format as it contains our "IP" ".Let me guess[B]....

Tags: Desktops, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Lets See

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

Free software great and small

Free software great and smallFree software great and small[i]In brief, it's a kinder, gentler version of Linus Torvald's quote that Linux is headed for "world domination, fast". [/i]BWAHHAHAHAHAHA! I had to laugh at that quote.Blah blah blah, Are you linux users really that dillusional? We've been hearing about how...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Face it Linux, Linux, Free Software, LINUX IS

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

What would you change (first) about Windows' look and feel?

If you were hired by Microsoft to make the Windows experience less annoying, what would be on your to-do list? Mark Hamburg, the Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom guru recently hired by Microsoft, is tasked with figuring out how to improve the way Microsoft's operating system works. ...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Corp., David Vaskevitch, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-30

OLPC ready to scrap Linux??

OLPC ready to scrap Linux??XPEOMDon't you know?He swears by BeOS!What "annual tax" are you refering to?[i]having to pay an annual tax to Microsoft for software updates[/i]I receive my updates for free. How do those on the OLPC unit differ?So what would they run on it?Vista? LOLRather extreme positionFundamentalists are always...

Tags: Operating systems, Third-World government, Fundamentalists, One Laptop Per Child project, Linux?, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

Let's try this again - how about an XPhone?

Conceptual XPHONE 3G Design by Brandon Perlow After positing the notion that consummating a Microsoft and Yahoo! merger might result in the combination of the media player aspects of Zune and the online services of...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Zune Yahoo! = Y!Phone

Zune Yahoo! = Y!PhoneDoesn't have to be innovativeMS didn't earn their fortune through innovation, they earned it by making previously available products more available to the masses. In this case, simply lowering the price (even by 10%) and making it available to all phone carriers with support would...

Tags: Operating systems, Digital music, Telecom & Utilities, Digital media, Handhelds, Microsoft Zune, Sansa MP3 player, phone, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Blockbuster sees media convergence; Offers to buy Circuit City

Updated: Here's a deal where 1 + 1 = 0.5: Blockbuster is offering to acquire Circuit City for "a least $6 a share." Blockbuster went public on Monday statement with an offer to buy Circuit City. Blockbuster says it sent a letter Feb. 17, but Circuit City...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Convergence, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Intel's Atom chips to fuel Mobile Internet Devices; Who's buying?

Intel's Atom chips to fuel Mobile Internet Devices; Who's buying?Over analysing what a MID isThere seems to be so much consternation as to what a MID is and where it will fit. Frankly, a MID is where the smartphone is going - a MID is a smarter smartphone.As far...

Tags: Smart phones, Network technology, Semiconductors, Handhelds, Cellular phones, chip, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Internet device, mobile, Intel Corp., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-04-02

Apple makes headway on PC vs Mac front, but isn't that the old war?

Apple makes headway on PC vs Mac front, but isn't that the old war?services forecast: cloudy with a chance of rain((( "The next war is the cloud war, and the battles will be fought around software as a service, desktop as a service, integration as a service, infrastructure as a...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Desktops, PC, Apple Inc., Mac front, old war, Apple Macintosh, software-as-a-service, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

Apple makes headway on PC vs Mac front, but isn't that the old war?

The writing is clearly on the wall. The iPhone will grow into a significant enterprise end-point role, and OS X Macs will quickly advance beyond the now 20 percent share estimated of the total non-enterprise fat client compute device market. This is all but done. Problem is...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes, Service, Digital Music, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Consumer Electronics, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-01