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Rumblings: Radio Shack to rebrand as 'The Shack'; does it matter?

Rumblings: Radio Shack to rebrand as 'The Shack'; does it matter?I do shop at Radio ShackI shop for weird little things.And, I hate WorstBuy.How about new advertising, products, and actually material improvments?Leave the name alone, that is not what holds them back.RE: Rumblings: Radio Shack to rebrand as 'The Shack';...

Tags: Radio Shack, Rumblings, Shack

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

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SAP's feet put to the fire

Helmuth Gumbel, ex-Gartner and generally sharp chap has opened a blog. Who's Helmuth you might think? I've known him maybe 6-7 years and he's always been one of those shadowy types who prefers to keep away from the limelight. Even so, he knows his SAP-stuff like very few others and...

Tags: SAP AG, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-05

HP (Voodoo) Envy 13, 15 thin-and-lights expected this month

It's been a long time since Voodoo has updated its popular but aging Envy 133 high-powered thin-and-light laptop, and rumblings around the Web point to two new models sporting the badge of their parent company, HP. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Voodoo, Hewlett-Packard Co., Notebooks, Channel Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Macworld without Apple: The show will go on

When Apple announced last year that the 2009 Macworld conference would be its last, there were some rumblings as to whether the show could continue without Apple's presence - and the big keynote speech that the company offered every year. No one ever said the show would...

Tags: Apple Inc., Macworld, Macworld 2010, Public Relations, Operating Systems, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-31

Apple music event slated for September 9 - sans tablet

Sources tell Digital Daily's John Paczkowski that Apple will indeed hold a "music event" -- as previously rumored -- during the week of September 7, 2009. The only real surprise is that the event is being held on a Wednesday (September 9) as opposed to Apple's typical...

Tags: Event, Apple Inc., Music Event, Phil Schiller, Tablets, Digital Music, Digital Media, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Gartner financial apps MarketScope

Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, On-demand, Gartner Inc., Sage, KashFlow, Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-17

AKG K390 Noise-Canceling earphones

Harman subsidiary AKG has been in the business of making personal and professional audio equipment since the 1940s, so one might rightfully expect top-notch quality from the company's line of headphones and earphones, of which there are plenty to choose from. The latest offering, set to hit the States in...

Tags: AAA-battery, AKG K390, noise cancellation, earphone, earbud, cable

Product reviews 2009-08-13

Radio Shack to rebrand as 'The Shack'; does it matter?

There are rumblings 'round the Internet that It's official: Radio Shack, everyone's favorite brick-and-mortar place to find a rare connector, is in the midst of rebranding itself as "The Shack." There have also been firsthand reports stating that signage will change to "The...

Tags: Radio Shack, Internet, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Cisco's commodity server foray likely to boost share, but at what cost?

Cisco's move to offer high-end integrated blade servers was one thing, but there are rumblings about its latest effort to focus on lower-end rack-mount hardware. The networking giant in early June announced that it would offer rack-mount servers, a commodity market that could give Cisco more market...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to a problem that doesn't exist

From the first moment I picked up Amazon's new large-format e-reader, the Kindle DX, I liked it. The plastic was smooth to the touch, the flat e-ink screen was easy on the eyes, and the large 9.7-in. screen only magnified just how thin the...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Magazine, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, DX, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Tech vendors: We're ready to help you spend Obama's stimulus money

If you don't think tech will be one of the first sectors to recover from the current economic conditions, think again. Technology taps into pretty much every sector out there - from manufacturing and health care to education and energy. Many of the businesses in those sectors...

Tags: ARRA, Dell Computer Corp., E-health, Electronic Health Record, Healthcare, IBM Global Financing, Information Technology, Investment, Management, Sam Diaz, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-05-01

Apple, Verizon consider iPhone deal; AT&T's last hurrah?

More rumblings are being reported between Verizon and Apple, who are said to be discussing the possibility of deploying the iPhone on the Verizon network next year. The most interesting aspect of the deal, besides the fact that it would bring the iPhone to another carrier besides...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Networking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-27

RightNow's DoD play: a good antidote to the cloud security naysayers

Earlier today I had a conversation with Kevin Paschuck, VP of Public Sector and Laef Olson, CIO of RightNow. We discussed their recent high security announcement which highlighted work being done with the US Department of Defense. The backdrop was this from the announcement: RightNow’s new hosting capabilities ...

Tags: RightNow Technologies, U.S. Department Of Defense, Security, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Can Twitter's backbone handle sudden jump in popularity?

For the past week or so, I've been noticing - and hearing some rumblings about - a greater-than-normal number of overload errors spewing from Twitter. Even though the overloads likely are stemming from the recent mainstream Twitter craze - which is a good thing - it's clear that Twitter is...

Tags: Backbone, Jason Perlow, Twitter, Mainframes, Storage, Telecommunications, Servers, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Is Intel hurt by Cooper exit?

Danese Cooper, dubbed an "open source diva" at Sun, has left Intel to join Revolution Computing.  (Opera diva Frederica von Stade is from New Jersey and has enjoyed doing recitals. From Amazon.com.) Job moves like this happen all the time, but some in the open source community...

Tags: Cooper, Intel Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Lack of iPhone 3.0 hardware not surprising

Apple didn't announce any new iPhone hardware at yesterday's iPhone 3.0 event -- but that shouldn't have come as too much of a surprise. My iPhone hardware grievances are: Fixed battery -- I mean, c'mon Lack of expansion slot -- microSD is sorely...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Rumor: New desktop Macs on 24 March

A World of Apple source claims that Apple is planning to hold a special event on March 24 to announce it's long-awaited desktop hardware updates. The source says that the event will be similar to the notebook event that Apple held last October. Apple is long-overdue to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Windows Mobile 6.5: Microsoft messed up

Please read note at the bottom of this post! -Ed. ------------- Microsoft debuted its Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone operating system at Mobile World Congress this week, and so far, it's been welcomed warmly. After all, with so many critics sounding off...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Honeycomb Format, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Electric cars level automaker playing field

Electric cars level automaker playing fieldDrawback of electric carsWhat I see with todays cars is that most consumers will balk at them because they have not really developed the technology yet needed to really sell like a gas powered vehicle. Speaking as an American, we seem to want high...

Tags: car, electric car, SUV

Discussion threads 2009-01-12

Coal strikes back

Coal strikes backLittle ice age coming?We've had a snow accumulation here this early for the first time in a long time. I'm hearing rumblings about an ice age on our doorstep. Is it possible that all this stuff about CO2 emisions is a bunch of hog wash?

Tags: coal

Discussion threads 2008-11-21