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Telcos: stop wasting our time & money!

Telcos: stop wasting our time & money!default greetingWith ATT, at least, I only get the greeting you describe if there's no customized greeting set up for the person being called, otherwise I hear the person's greeting, then the beep.Even with the canned greeting, you can usually bypass by pressing 1.This...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, telecommunications company, Pogue

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

NYT's Pogue starts revolution vs. carriers' 15-second voicemail delay

NYT's Pogue starts revolution vs. carriers' 15-second voicemail delayJust beep itI am not a fan of voicemail, or the explanation of how to use it. Go Pogue!

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Pogue, voicemail, NYT

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

David Pogue: BlackBerry Storm 'by far the worst product RIM has ever produced'

Harsh words from Mr. Pogue-O-Matic himself at the New York Times. A letter from tech god David Pogue appeared yesterday that spelled out not why he had problems with the Storm's concept, clicky touch screen, speed, and bugs (which the company refused to acknowledge, he says). That's...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Storm, Pogue, Public Relations, Handhelds, Keyboards, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-05

David Pogue forecasts a depression for the Storm and I completely agree

David Pogue forecasts a depression for the Storm and I completely agreeNot the highly lauded iPhone killer?NTRE: David Pogue forecasts a depression for the Storm and I completely agreeThis is why we have chosen to only develop our enterprise apps for the iPhone. http://blog.cosential.com/?p=156RE: David Pogue forecasts a depression for...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Bluetooth, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Apple iPhone, David Pogue, depression, Pogue

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

Vudu offers new format to stream 1080p HD movies to its BX100 player

As I mentioned in my post yesterday about Netflix, one of the obstacles video-streaming services are going to have to overcome is the quality of the files they're sending to big HDTVs. Apple has recently introduced 720p HD files on iTunes to download to its Apple TV device, but lesser-known...

Tags: Video, Movies, 1080p, Vudu, HDX, Pogue, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Mossberg, Pogue and Baig pass judgment on the iPhone 3G

The top trio of Apple fanboys (Mossberg, Pogue and Baig) pass judgment on the iPhone 3G. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Pogue, Baig, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-09

The highs and lows of digital camcorders: Flip Video Ultra vs. Sony Handycam HDR-TG1

There's been a lot of renewed media interest of late in Pure Digital's Flip Video (aka, The Flip), the super-simple, low-res, flash-based video recorder (with flip-out USB dongle) that has taken the camcorder industry by storm in the year since it was launched. David Pogue reviewed the lastest version...

Tags: Sony Corp., Camcorder, Video, Pogue, Flip Ultra, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2008-04-06

The final word on the 'megapixel myth'

The final word on the 'megapixel myth'Great articleGreat article George - couldn't agree more.The only definite area where megapixels are a bit of a scam is in the amateur digicam market. My mom was very proud to come home with a 8 megapixel camera (which a good salesman obviously had...

Tags: Printers, Digital cameras, Digital photography, downsampling, pixel, photograph, digital zoom, Pogue

Discussion threads 2007-02-27

The final word on the 'megapixel myth'

Theres been a lot of talk of the "megapixel myth" lately all started by David Pogue of the New York times declaring that megapixels are a "big fat lie". Fellow blogger David Berlind also did an entire series of blogs with his own sets of tests declaring "theres a...

Tags: Security

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Pogue busts the megapixel myth but over-simplifies the issue

Pogue busts the megapixel myth but over-simplifies the issueDon't forget the opticsGood column, but it's always good to point out the value in a high quality lens and overall high quality optics. You'll get a much better picture with a lower mp collector and a great lens then you...

Tags: camera, quality len, Pogue

Discussion threads 2007-02-09

Pogue busts the megapixel myth but over-simplifies the issue

In an article by David Pogue in the New York Times busts the myth that the more pixels or megapixels a digital camera has, the better the output.Overall, I agree with the article, the number of megapixels that a camera has more to do with marketing than anything else. ...

Tags: camera, Gadgets, In the news, Marketing

Blog posts 2007-02-09

Pogue exposes the digital cam megapixel scam as a "big fat lie" and he's right

Pogue exposes the digital cam megapixel scam as a "big fat lie" and he's rightActually, RTFM doesn't workI have several digital camera manuals here and they're all terrible. They're perfect at telling you how to set the camera to the different megapixel settings as well as adjust every other setting....

Tags: Digital cameras, Pogue, optics, Fine Manual, camera, digital camera, CPU

Discussion threads 2007-02-08

Pogue exposes the digital cam megapixel scam as "big fat lie" and he's right

The New York Times David Pogue has written the story that Ive wanted to write for about three years now but never got to mostly because consumer tech isnt my primary beat. Pogue has very articulately pointed out that theres a point of diminishing returns when it comes to the...

Tags: General, Entertainment, Personal Technology, Pogue, pixel, photograph

Blog posts 2007-02-08

With some reviewers, Microsoft can't win

With some reviewers, Microsoft can't winCustomers are like that....... we get similar things on frequent enough basis to be well used to it. The phrase [i]"Can we have facility xxxxx?"[/i] followed some time later by [i]"Can you remove facility xxxxx?"[/i]. On follow up the most common reason for removal is...

Tags: Backups, Microsoft Corp., backup, Pogue

Discussion threads 2006-12-19

Pogue: Vista is a Mac copy cat. Computerworld: Mac needs 15 improvements

Interesting juxtaposition of commentary out there. While the NYTs David Pogue spots the lengths to which the developers of Vista went to imitate OS X. Although some of those lengths turned out to be not long enough, aspiring to OS X is apparently a good thing for users of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Pogue, Apple, Hardware Infrastructure, Software Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2006-12-15

David Pogue reminds me why not to buy a GPS system anytime soon

At the beginning of April right as I was coming off my "back surgery vacation," I wrote a kitchen sink blog that, amongst other things, dragged consumer-targeted global postioning solutions like those from Tom-Tom through the mud. But, at $500 to $700, I found the pricing for something...

Tags: GPS

Blog posts 2006-06-02

Finally, an application for Origami (and maybe dinner for Tim Bray)

Tim Bray, Sun's grand poo-bah of Web technologies says: It’s guys like [Pavel Buzek] who are going to cost Berlind the price of a nice dinner. At issue here (and the...

Tags: Java development tools, Keyboards, Development tools, OOA/OOD/OOP, Pavel Buzek, Sun NetBeans, Tim Bray, Origami, Pogue, programming

Blog posts 2006-05-04

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Macworld 2010: Gearing up for an Apple-less event

Apple won't be at Macworld this year but the show will go on, with presentations by tech journalists David Pogue and Leo LaPorte, as well as filmmaker Kevin Smith. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Apple Inc., Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Did 'reporters' sink Vista?

Yes. They made it much worse.There were early driver problems, many devices NEVER got updated for Vista, the fit and finish was and is rough, the extra security was a nag (but should have been DEFENDED and EXPLAINED by the tech pros, instead of being ridiculed), business was right to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Jobs responds to iPod touch camera snub

In a curious omission, Apple neglected to include a video camera in the third-generation iPod touch announced yesterday. It's curious because the video camera from the iPhone 3GS successfully made the jump to the new fifth-generation iPod nano -- leapfrogging the iPod touch in the process. ...

Tags: Job, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Nano, Video, Apple iPod Touch, Camera, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-09-10