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- Swoopo: a lottery disguised as an auction?
- Here's a good business: sell products for 3x retail - and have people pay for the privilege. Cool! The bad news: someone already thought of it. How do they get people - including me - to sign up for such a bad deal? by Robin Harris
- Tags: Lottery, Auction, Privilege, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-11-29
- Did you pick up any Black Friday deals?
- Reane it "Black Death" and I still wouldn't go out there...A $300 netbook on sale for $200, using $50 worth of parts, and doesn't perform as a good as something made for 2 cents... that's no deal.Stores carry a limited number of items reduced slightly more than usual, hype...
- Tags: Modems, NETWORKING, Network technology, Black Friday, Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-27
- India goes to Copenhagen
- See, it's all about wealth transfers.Now under the guise of 'climate debt'.Climate debt my ass. Nonsense.If countries want more wealth, here's the recipe:- get off your ass, and work;- good governance, no corruption.And stop blaming everything on the west.Of courseHumans seem incapable of any measure more sophisticated than money. We...
- Tags: Co2-emission
- Discussion threads 2009-11-26
- Sony Vaio FW560F/T (brown)
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. Several months ago, one of our favorite retail laptops was the Sony Vaio FW480J/T. Besides offering no-hassle Blu-ray playback and a large...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Sony Vaio, laptop computer, game, Intel Core 2 Duo, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-11-25
- Samsung partners with NYT for Go netbook and digital subscription deal
- Me - NoAssuming I were interested in paying for news (the article does not state the length of the subscription - kind of a key piece on info) I would look for the best device for me AND the best news source for me. I just don't get the bundling...
- Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., netbook, NYT, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Samsung partners with NYT for Go netbook and digital subscription deal
- Samsung and The New York Times are partnering for a new deal on the Samsung Go netbook, just in time before the real holiday shopping begins. Doesn't really work for existing Go owners, but recent first-time subscribers can still take advantage of it until...
- Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Netbook, Subscription, Reader Subscription, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-11-25
- Death of the black box EULA
- Nonsense. Just look at Psystar.They died by the EULA. The judge even brought that up.And open source software has an EULA of its own, telling you exactlly what you can and must do to be able to use the software.Any failure to follow the EULA/GPL allows the owner of the...
- Tags: EULA, black box, software
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Does Amazon know where it's going with the Kindle?
- Amazon, please ignore AdrianNormally I'm right with Adrian, but he obviously doesn't have a Kindle, which is my favorite device. To Amazon: don't add battery sucking features (like wi-fi), we don't care about multi-purpose (it's a bookreader!), i don't want cr@apps on my Kindle (it's a bookreader!) and I don't...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Garmin Nuvi 1690
- Garmin made a pretty big splash last year when it debuted the Nuvi 880, its first-ever Internet-connected portable navigation device PND featuring MSN Direct data service. With MSN Direct scheduled to go offline in the very near future, Garmin had to create something to fill this void, so it partnered...
- Tags: Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., data service, portable navigation device, suction-cup, cradle
- Product reviews 2009-11-24
- Microsoft CFO Liddell to leave by year-end
- dump MSFT shares next yearafter the last bump in stock price you'll get from Win7. It's all downhill from there.Why are the shareholders so greedy?Currently MSFT has around 18-19 PE which is very reasonable. It's pretty high seeing that we are in the great global recession. I know that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Investment, Financial accounting, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., stock
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- (Top 15 Black Friday tech deals)
- RE: (Top 15 Black Friday tech deals)Mouse over the images - the tooltip gives the price and location for each item.Top 15 Black Friday tech deals???The products that were shown were good, but with out knowing what the prices are going to be how can we tell if it's...
- Tags: Top 15 Black Friday, Top 15 Black Friday tech deal, tech deal
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Best Buy adds $197 HP laptop to Black Friday lineup
- I hate agreeing with linuxbut alas I must do it this time :( He's right, this is some cheap hardware. Intel celeron? Who uses that anymore? I guess its good for kids, but any power user will not want this laptop. I'm holding out for a...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Black Friday lineup, laptop computer, Intel Celeron, Best Buy Co. Inc., Black Friday, HP Laptop, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Numbers of new Core i7 iMacs are turning up DOA
- I guess it goes to show that......even the almighty apple is not immune to issues. We have some iMacs (about 100 - 120) in my organization compared to about 2500 Windows Desktops and out of the 90 we ordered a few years ago (17" iMacs) we had one come...
- Tags: Desktops, DOA, Core i7 iMac, Core i7, Apple Inc., Apple iMac
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Microsoft tries toppling Google with a bribe
- Big CatchMySpace, Fox News, couple dozen newspapers, couple dozen magazines, other Fox channels, Sky.The major News Corp viewers will see that if they want to search, they'll Bing it.Even if people link News Corp content in Twitter or Blogs, Google can't go to those links and crawl the content on...
- Tags: Blogging, SEARCH, Bing, Google Inc., News Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- GM: not doing well, but going back to the well anyway
- Why not?Government Motors is like most of our governments these days, propped up with fake money and phony paper. I am sure the EU can do like we do and just print more money to keep GM afloat for another day. After all, its only paper, right?More paper...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Government Motors, General Motors Corp., Opel, government
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Another Apple Black Friday leak rumor - with prices!
- Congrats ZDNet on the Apple advertising contract!!What with 15 blog posts advertising Apple's upcoming Black Friday sale and the nearly full page Apple video advertisement that you've been running here recently, I can only conclude that all blog posting must now be approved by Apple's marketing department. Hope the compensation...
- Tags: Blogging, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Black Friday
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Sergey Brin: Google Android, Chrome OS likely to converge
- The concept makes a lot of senseIf you want access to your data everywhere and on every device, having a single platform may be the only way to go. Seamless ubiquity is the dream I guess, if you, the user, does not lose control. How they will be able to...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Smart phones, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, Google Android, Sergey Brin
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Office Starter 2010: The fine print on Microsoft's Works replacement
- For me, non-starterA crippled, incompatible, ad supported product makes little sense to me, when Open Office and Google are alternatives.ExactlyThere's already a portable version of OpenOffice that runs on a USB stick - nothing new here.The excluded formats are used in only about 1% of documentsIt is well-known that macros...
- Tags: Starter, Microsoft Works, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Starter
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Admob: Droid and Android army make big browsing splash
- I don't see how....Palm is going to survive in this market. The iPhone vs Android will be interesting to watch however.Android is still milles away from the iPhoneAfter looking at the few Android phones in the market, I can tell you that without a doubt, the Android is competition for...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Droid, phone
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
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