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- Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices
- RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted
- First thoughts"the incumbents fought it tooth and nail"Same thing happened in the last 4 industrial revolutions!I'm broadly in favour of your improvements ... with a few caveats ... and will look at the 2 papers you plugged, sorry referenced ;-)"Users should be concerned that the Internet services they pay for...
- Tags: Fiber optics, Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Solution
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Google Voice shows need to update telecom laws
- Is a Google Voice a phone service or a web service? The fact is, it's a question that can't be answered under our current definitions. But one thing is clear: Google Voice is the camel's nose under the policy tent that should - and perhaps will - cause a full-blown...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Voice, AT&T Corp., Telecommunications, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Lower costs or mandate coverage
- More Politics on ZDNET?This is a tech site - please stick to TECH.Pitching this spin is not productive. It's also so one sided as to be laughable.America is a capitalist nation. Let the free market do its job and stop interfering.The marketThe market says policy is important. I...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Palin, Carl Rapson
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Virginia backs off demands for Facebook data
- Minor nitpick..but VA is a Commonwealth...NTNTI am not a fan of people who claim to be injured that are not.I am not saying she is lieing or they are being overly burdensome with proof requirements. I think if they just spent the dough to watch her at her house,...
- Tags: Facebook, privacy
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Global dimming and climate change
- Control through Cap & Trade or TAX & Trade...Yes, rapid unemployment through crippling coal burning power-plants and high energy prices.Nothing like Czars who are answering to no one except our new 'leader' with dictator power...Now the genius is going to tax people over $200k for health-care meaning more job losses...Socialism...
- Tags: Taxes, Personal finance, Benefits, climate change, Czar
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- PC vs. Mac: 'If you're ready to compromise, you call me'
- Every Cult has to have someone to hate....If they didn't have Windows to bash they would just be an over priced office tool. They have to keep the anger alive in order to keep the minions buying.If you step back and look at a Laptop/PC as a tool to get...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., advertisement
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- 2010 Chevrolet Camaro
- Photo gallery:2010 Chevrolet Camaro LT Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger, and now the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro: this holy trinity of retro muscle cars is now complete. Each car, being iconic in its own way, will have its own set of fanatical adherents regardless of how well it drives or what tech...
- Tags: Chevrolet Camaro, OnStar, Chevrolet
- Product reviews 2009-08-18
- News to know: Microsoft; Apple; Palm; Twitter as botnet command channel
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Exchange 2010 buzz grows louder Ryan Naraine: Brazilian ID thieves using Twitter as botnet command channel...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Palm Inc., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Tablets, Notebooks, Digital Cameras, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- How long can Apple dodge the antitrust bullet?
- huh?I do not believe that your equivalence chart actually puts apples to apples. Third party software does not need to be approved before it is sold. OEMs dont need to have their software approved by microsoft before they install it. Way to attempt to make an argument...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Desktops, Operating systems, antitrust, PC, Apple Inc., single source, Microsoft Corp., dominant personal computer, WinPC, operating system, sales
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
- Auto marketing wars: Nissan claims over 300 MPG
- only if this happened a long time agowe wont have depended on foreign oil so much.. but better late than never...How many of those 230/300 MPG miles?How many of those 230/300 MPG miles were spent coasting downhill, driving at 25 MPH on a test track or other unreal world, hypermiling...
- Tags: marketing, MPG, car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-13
- Use H-1B or L-1 workers? Prepare for a Federal audit!
- About timeThere are employers who have > 50% of their workforce as foreign workers. I can't imagine all of them are doing things according to the letter of the law.RE: Use H-1B or L-1 workers? Prepare for a Federal audit!this is probably the only good thing to come...
- Tags: Financial accounting, H1B, audit, Use H-1B, L-1 worker, Federal audit, L-1, H-1B
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- News to know: SOA, Google Voice app; Twitter bots; Google Wave; Clunkers
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Joe McKendrick: More SOA tools emerge in the cloud Jason Hiner: Forget the iPhone app, Google Voice coming as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Jason Perlow, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Twitter, Attack, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Google open source strategy not just a patent dodge
- Business and evil.The very first thing in Google's defense is that they make their money by providing advertising services, not by destroying the IT ecosystem with anti-competitiveness like a certain software vendor is hell-bent on doing.RE: Google open source strategy not just a patent dodge"Fact is Google has been a...
- Tags: Patent Reform, strategy, Google Inc., patent, Google open source strategy, Google open source
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'
- Head 'em up. Move 'em out. Keep those clunkers rollin'Wow, this is a real tech issue.NOT.Oh come on! :) A tree hugger like you?Doesn't want Congress spending a measly 3 billion dollars to add 10 MPG to a million drivers?Think of all the *gasoline* that won't be burnt!...
- Tags: clunker
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Apple lawyers tried to hush up exploding iPod reports
- Apple lawyers tried to hush up exploding iPod reportsYou sound surprised, Adrianthrough the years, stories of compalints being removed from Apple's message boards, cease and desist orders to anyone with the tiniest of information, even anyone who dares blog negatively about Apple on their personal web sites; Apple places their...
- Tags: Digital music, Blogging, Apple sale, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, iPODS
- Discussion threads 2009-07-22
- Ford says you can afFORD their fuel-savers
- Ford says you can afFORD their fuel-saversAmerican turbocharged cars in the 80'sA lot of American cars were using turbochargers in the late 70's and early 80's. They burned themselves up regularly and cost a ton of money to replace. The problem was, American car companies decided to use cheap turbochargers...
- Tags: turbocharger, turbo, car, Ford Motor Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-15
- Want a smart meter? Try your electric bill first
- With all the talk of smart meters---Google is a big fan---there's already a lot of data you're not using. And that data happens to be printed on your electric bill, according to Smart Planet's John Dodge. He should know. Dodge writes: The proof...
- Tags: Bill, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Schmidt: Google aims to avoid Microsoft's antitrust mistakes
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that large companies are always worried about antitrust issues, but the search giant is working to "not make the mistakes, which in my view were quite tragic, that Microsoft made." Schmidt made the remarks in a long interview with the Financial Times....
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Americans do not agree on global warming
- Americans do not agree on global warmingFamous Lenin quote...Yes, the Communist Leader Lenin is known for this quote; 'A lie told often enough becomes the truth'....Obama is nothing more than a closet Communist, he wants Americans to suffer, look at the damage he has done telling GM & Chrysler to...
- Tags: global warming, survey
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
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